the woefully inadequate minimum experience requirements for the pilots
What level of experience might you suggest? Compared to what is required for a CPL I would have thought their 250 hours in command to be more than reasonable. You seem to be suggesting that a raw bone CPL shouldn't be permitted to carry paying passengers due to lack of experience.
PPL holders don't have the ability to build mega hours, and what is experience? 10,000 hours doing circuits? CASA bestows the right to carry passengers to a newly minted PPL. Are the PPL requirements too low?
The very last thing needed is more "rules", just obey the ones we have. ie stay VMC if that's your category, as Lead Balloon says (my bolding),
If there is a problem, it is not caused by Angel Flight. It's caused by human factors issues that have been around forever.
If the rules for day VFR Angel Flights should be changed, the rules for all day VFR private operations should be changed.
But hang on a second, if the current rules were complied with, there wouldn't be a problem, would there?
The problem isn't the rules. We're drowning in rules.