Beginning last winter I became involved with an organization known as Angel Flight West, a non profit organization with connections to general aviation which provides air transportation for people with medical situations that preclude their use of either ground transportation or routine air carrier services. The service is free to the recipient and totally at the expense of the pilot providing the service. For those reasons, one might think that the organization would be grateful to have any pilot donate their plane and flight time to their organization. The Oregon Wing of AFW has been formalized and accepted from the parent organization based in California. As part of that process, the Oregon Wing has also accepted the criteria for AFW operations, including that for planes and pilots.
Liability insurance is a minimum requirement for planes, pilots and passengers.
Planes have to be maintained to FAR standards, both in the physical sense and log book documentation. And pilots must also meet the standards for their rating including currency and medical evaluations. It asked for aircraft specifics, systems descriptions, emergency procedures, maneuver descriptions and techniques and questions on airspace and weather. They also asked the applicant pilot to plan an AF mission. Details were given on the prospective passengers and crew, origin, destination and arrival time there and a weather report as though received over a telex.