Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
What is your opinion as to what the minimum experience requirements for community service flights should be, and against what criteria are you measuring adequacy?
It seems you are saying that there are pilots who have a licence that authorises them to carry passengers in private operations, but only their families and friends who - apparently - are competent to, and do, make an assessment of the pilots' professionalism. My long experience is that family and friends simply assume - reasonably - that the pilot knows what he or she is doing, if for no other reason than that most family and friends wouldn't have a clue how to judge otherwise.
It is simple. The pilot needs to be capable,competent and current. One does not embark on a flight outside ones capabilities.