A special visitor paid a flying visit to West Footscray Primary School on Monday to help celebrate Education Week.
A life-sized replica of a Royal Flying Doctor Service aircraft winged its way into the school as part of the organisation’s Look Up! In The Sky education program.
Pupils had a chance to climb inside the simulator, try on the headphones and see how the medical equipment works.
In keeping with Education Week’s Crack the Code with Maths theme, pupils were also asked to solve a question relating to the distance travelled by the flying doctor’s plane.
The RFDS attends more than 800 patients every day, performing about 37,000 aeromedical evacuations and conducting about 15,000 healthcare clinics per year.
