[thorn bird]

A little bit of scratching around the web revealed some interesting Data.

Angel flights or their equivalents seems to be a worldwide phenomena, more so in the USA and Canada.

I guess that would only to be expected considering their GA industries have not been regulated out of business by rapacious regulators. The ethos in the USA and Canada being foster and promote, educate and consult backed with sensible easy to comprehend regulations, rather than the regulate and prosecute approach which applies in Australia.

In Canada over 12,500 Angel flights are conducted every year, so far without incident. Considering the atrocious weather conditions they have to contend with, a remarkable achievement.

In the USA there are various charities throughout the country that conduct Angel Flight type operations.

Angel Flight being by far the biggest organisation.

Angel Flight USA and its affiliates conduct over 34,000 flights every year, all over the country.

Wikipedia list only six accidents worldwide of Angel Flight aircraft, two of those in Australia.

These statistics would suggest to me that there are some fundamental flaws in CAsA's risk analysis processes. Either that or there are some serious issues with the standard of todays private pilots, which I don't believe.

By its reaction is CAsA admitting they have no confidence in the standards they set? or perhaps an admission their oversight of those standards is deficient?


A link to a video which perhaps illustrates how undervalued and under-utilised general aviation is in the Australian psyche.