[thorn bird]

"A Bilious Confection."

"K" I wholeheartedly agree. The person winging about his lack of compensation loses sight of why his loved ones were on an Angel Flight in the first place.
A little trawl though Google reveals that Angel Flight and its associates in the USA is a huge organisation completing many more missions per year than Australia could dream of, all under the same formula.

The difference I note is that almost 80% of US private pilots hold instrument ratings, compared with about 20% in Australia, now why would this be??

Does holding an instrument qualification go a long way to mitigating a lot of these VFR into IFR accidents?

The lack of instrument qualification in Australia wouldn't be because of our inane regulations and ridiculous "recency" requirements which make it so expensive to obtain that qualification and maintain it that many of our PPL brethren simply forgo that skill as too onerous and costly? We do, after all, have the most benign weather in the world so why bother?

Tens of Thousands of Angel Flight missions completed in the USA, one accident that I can find, against Australia two.

But hang on Australia is the safest country in the world isn't it? or is it just the most expensive? you choose.

The sad thing is this sort of emotional clap trap, sensationally promoted by the ABC could so easily provoke a knee jerk reaction from our dumb ass regulator and the whole concept of Angel Flight regulated out of existence.

If that was to occur it would be interesting to see the Stats on the number of road kill caused, or the number of people
who's health and wellbeing was compromised by the inability to attend timely access to specialist treatment.

Angel Flight is a true Charity, unlike those corporations masquerading as charities that snorkel up vast amounts of taxpayer dollars and bid for commercial contracts with the advantage over commercial operators of paying no tax, not even GST. It would be very sad to see Care Flight become commercialised.