Originally Posted by
Lookleft
To say that AF is just like any other private category flight is like saying Uber is just like getting a lift from a stranger. The fact that it is a charity does not absolve it from a responsibility to the "patients" for want of a better word. If there is no direct oversight then have mentor pilots to the low experience PPLs. who they can call on to help come to a reasoned decision to fly or not. The statement that the PIC can simply say no is as pointless as simply stating don't fly from VMC into IMC. It ignores all sorts of self-imposed pressures that a single pilot low time VFR pilot might place upon themselves. Rammel is asking the questions that the patients and there families would probably ask if they knew their pilot did not have much flying experience.
Uber drivers are paid to do the job. They make money out of it.
And guess what happens when the Angel Flight passenger/s arrive at their destination? They get in a car driven by a stranger. Perhaps Angel Flight are “responsible” for monitoring road conditions and asking for an alcohol and drug test of the volunteer driver and a copy of a recent roadworthiness certificate for the car before each volunteer helps out?
If the accidents that triggered the rule change were caused by the inexperience of the individual pilots involved, why weren’t the rules changed so as to preclude pilots with their level experience from now being community service flight pilots?