Help End Preventable Blindness – The Flight For Sight Travel Trivia Challenge /

Do you want to give something back during the holidays? Do something different and join the Orbis Canada Flight for Sight travel game.

Flight for Sight is an immersive 60 minute entertainment experience where Dave and I host teams competing in travel trivia challenges and interactive games. It’s the perfect team building event for companies looking to bring their staff together or you can sign up individually and join an existing team. Register here

FedEx and Orbis Flying Eye Hospital

During the event, attendees will be entertained by “yours truly,” as Microsoft pilot Chris Levesque takes you through sets of live-streamed flight simulation experiences on the state-of-the-art Microsoft Flight Simulator. The flight simulations are real GPS satellite images.

Participants in the Orbis Flight for Sight event will also receive a virtual tour of the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital. This is an amazing plane that flies around the world helping people in need. FedEx donated a cargo plane that was converted into a state-of-the-art eye hospital for education and training.

Nearly 1 billion people around the world live with vision loss or blindness that could be prevented or treated if they had access to the care we so easily take for granted. Your participation will help end preventable blindness for people living in love and middle-income countries where eye care is non-existent. What better gift to give this holiday season than the gift of sight.

Be there December 1, 2022 – Trivia for a good cause

The next Flight for Sight event will take place on December 1, 2022. Teams of up to 12 people must raise a minimum of $2,000. That’s only $166.66 per person. So make sure your colleagues, family, or friends together for a fun way to raise money for a good cause! Having trouble getting 12 people? No problem. Solo travelers can join an existing team!

Go alone? Take a solo flight and join an existing team

The December 1, 2022 flight is now open to individual travellers! There is no need to recruit 11 other friends, family or colleagues. Instead, all you have to do is pay your $25 registration fee, raise the $250 individual minimum amount, and you’ll be placed on a team of up to 12 of your fellow solo adventure seekers. How easy is that? And just in time for the holidays, you’ll make new wanderlust friends.

Register for the December event today!

Microsoft simulator

Throughout the day there are three different one-hour events where teams compete against each other for points. The overall winners will be announced at the end of the final event.

The events are so much fun with teams working on different challenges from “Look for the differences“, until “Rebus puzzlesto answer travel trivia. It’s a fun way to test your travel knowledge and make new friends. For companies and associations it is a great team building

Not only that, but throughout the game you can see real satellite images of it Microsoft Flight Simulator as you join Captain Levesque on virtual flight experiences that take you to the furthest corners of the world.

Flying Eye Hospital

The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital was made possible by the event sponsor FedEx who donated this unique aircraft and transformed it into a state-of-the-art eye hospital for education and training.

The Flying Eye Hospital travels to half a dozen destinations each year, equipped with a full medical team from more than 30 countries. Physicians, anesthesiologists and biomedical engineers volunteer their time to share their expertise with local medical professionals.

The purpose of the Flying Eye Hospital is threefold. To help treat eye problems that would be easily curable if only people had access to medical professionals, to raise awareness of eye health among local governments, and to train local medical professionals.

1 billion people live with preventable eye disease

Unfortunately, 90% of the 1 billion people with preventable eye diseases live in low- and middle-income countries. That’s where the flying eyes hospital has become so important. The volunteer staff not only treat eye diseases, but also create opportunities, simulation training and sharing expertise with local medical professionals.

The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital also raises awareness about eye health in low and middle income countries and opens a dialogue with local governments and ministries of health to help change global eye health policies and priorities.

Flight from sight helps end avoidable blindness

The Flight for Sight event is very close to our hearts and we are honored to be back hosting the event in 2022. We are having so much fun meeting people from all over the world and sharing our love of travel for an important purpose.

Flight from sight also gives you the chance to see some of the greatest wonders of the world in a way few people ever can – all in 60 minutes and all from the comfort and safety of home.

But it’s about more than just the incredible view. Flight from sight is an immersive and engaging entertainment and team building experience. During the live-streamed flight simulation experience, your team of up to 12 people will earn points in a series of problem-solving challenges and trivia competitions that will test your collective brain power and creative thinking.

So don’t wait any longer, join us on December 1st for the Sight Event flight here.

FedEx National Event Sponsor

Since 2009, FedEx has been the national event sponsor of Orbis’ other annual fundraising event, Plane Pull for Sight. We attended Plane Pull for Sight this year and it’s a fun event! Imagine you are tug of war with a cargo plane! Events take place in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. Start planning your team for next year’s plane trek now!

These events have raised more than $2 million to help end preventable blindness through funding from the Flying Eye Hospital programs.

Microsoft Flight Simulator

Fly around the world from the comfort of your home. You’ll see first hand what it’s like to fly the Microsoft Flight Simulator. And you can use it yourself with the X-Box Game Pass.

You can test your flying skills, from small planes to widebody jets, as you soar above the corners of the world. During the event you will get to see an expert pilot in action!

We hope you open your heart and wallet to raise money for this important cause. It’s a fun event and it’s even more fun when you know you’re doing something good in the world.