Angel Flight Call Sign

[Lambswool]

Originally Posted by Pinky the pilot

Please note the first sentence!

If anyone has a complaint/objection about this, then I suggest that you take it up with Angel Flight themselves, and not criticise/abuse fellow ppruners!

Just like Pinky said. Take it up with Angel Flight. The OP was just raising a question based on the email that was sent to all of the volunteers.



"We are writing to ask that on all future flights in and out of control space, we would appreciate you prefacing your call sign with ‘Angel Flight’, when first contacting ATC (inbound or outbound, eg Centre, Approach, Tower/Ground, Tower, Centre etc) . It will be necessary in these circumstances to annotate the remarkss section of your flight plan with ‘Angel Flight CSF’.

We did have this policy in the past, but due to some considerations prevalent at the time, decided to discontinue its use. We have had some discussions with senior officers of ATS and there is no apparent or obvious contraindication to our resumption. Of course, it will not (and nor do we expect it to) give our flights any priority. However, it may assist ATS officers in understanding why we make certain clearance or other requests, for example, asking for non-standard routes over rough terrain or large bodies of water, particularly when IFR flights may be expected to plan via standard published routes, which are not necessarily conducive to flight safety in the event of engine failure, or where weather and/or turbulence indicates safer routes are available."