CHARITY FLIGHTS
1 Article 159 of the Air Navigation Order 2005 makes provision for certain fund raising flights on behalf of
registered charities to be
flown as private flights. They are therefore excluded from the commercial air transport regulations in respect of the carriage of
passengers and from the aerial work regulations in respect of sponsored flights without passengers.
They may be conducted in
accordance with the conditions of a Permission issued by the CAA, by:
(a) The holder of a Private Pilot’s Licence or National Private Pilot’s Licence;
(b) professionally licensed pilots; or
(c) pilots of gliders and hang gliders holding certificates issued by their respective associations.
2 The types of flights which the provisions and the term ‘Charity Flights’ encompass are:
(a) The carriage of passengers, which includes children of all ages, on flights for which no payment is made to the operator or
pilot of the aircraft but for which the passengers make a payment, all of which is contributed to a registered charity; or
(b)
the carriage of passengers on a flight as a prize in a lottery, the total proceeds of which go to a registered charity; or
(c) a sponsored flight, either with or without passengers, for which the total proceeds go to a registered charity.
See
http://www.ais.org.uk/aes/pubs/aip/pdf/aic/4W136.PDF