Dear friends, you won't hear a landing clearance given by Pawel 'Pawko' Grzadkowski any more. After a long struggle with illness, he was cleared for his last eternal flight. Pawko was well known as a pilot in Poland and abroad. He joined the team of controllers just a few months ago. Because of this disease, despite being 21 years old, he has had a voice that at the beginning we have all mistaken for a child. No one has realized that Pawko was suffering from Cystic Fibrosis, and how difficult it was for him to spell the clearances for VATSIM pilots. Only a few weeks after he become STU controller we were contacted by members of his family and learned that he has died. Fellow PL-VACC members have decided to name one of the periodic fly-ins that organized in EPWW FIR 'The PapaGolf' after Pawko 'PG' initials. Please join us at Krakow Balice (EPKK) airport, with 24 hours non-stop service from 2200 UTC on Saturday June 18th until 2200 UTC on the following day. www.vatsim.net

Very moving story. Very, very sad. As a fellow Pole I bid him farewell. I will have him in my memory especially that soon I am finally going to take the plunge and try VATSIM flying.Michael J.WinXP-Home SP2,AMD64 3500+,Abit AV8,Radeon X800Pro,36GB Raptor,1GB PC3200,Audigy 2http://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/747400.jpghttp://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_beta_member.jpg

very sad and moving message.someone so young,just doesn't seem right..i believe he was buried in a PL vatsim T-shirt(his final wish)very upsetting story,but also quite inspiring. steve