Hope Delivered Daily
Volunteer Pilots fly patients to critical medical care to receive life saving treatment.
Volunteer Pilots fly patients to critical medical care to receive life saving treatment.
Volunteer Pilot Qualifications
Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic volunteer pilots must meet the following Minimum Pilot Command (PIC) Qualifications:
- Minimum total time of 500 hours as Pilot in Command (PIC)
- Minimum of 50 hours in make and model.
- Turbine powered aircraft, minimum total time of 1,000 hours as Pilot in Command (PIC).
- Minimum of 100 hours turbine and a minimum of 50 hours make and model.
- Minimum of 50 hours as PIC shall have been flown and logged within the 12 months immediately preceding the flight. Or minimum of 12 hours flown and logged during the previous 90 days. * This requirement can be waived if the pilot completes 2 hours of dual training with a certificated flight instructor prior to flying an angel flight.
- Pilot shall have a currently valid medical certificate, a current Flight Review, and an instrument rating remain current with applicable flight times and rules as set forth in the FARs.
- Minimum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) liability insurance with not less than $100,000 per seat shall be in force on any aircraft to be used for angel flights.
- Aircraft must be properly registered, licensed, airworthy, and we recommend that the engine time since new or last overhaul be less than the manufacturer’s recommended Time Between Overhaul (TBO).
For more information concerning qualifications contact us.
Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic does not certify the pilots or the aircraft used for angel flights. This is the responsibility of the Federal Aviation Administration.
If you would like to become an Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic volunteer pilot, complete the application below.
Help for Our Patients
Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic fills a societal need that most people don’t know exists— namely, the need for long-distance patient travel. Most of us have easy access to local hospitals and medical specialists that offer quality care. But millions of our fellow Americans live in poverty and/or in remote areas and lack the financial means to travel to distant medical specialists for treatment. Their future health and even their very lives can depend on overcoming these challenges.
Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic bridges the access gap by providing charitable medical transportation in the District of Columbia, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia and as Mercy Medical Angels Volunteer Pilot Program in North Carolina and Tennessee: The need is great. Mercy Medical Angels and Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic can serve those in need only through the generous support of foundations, corporations, individuals and institutions.
In Our Patients Words:
"Your work putting everything together made it possible for me to get to my Neurosurgery appointment in New York. I’m very thankful for the awesome pilots that you worked closely with to get me safely from my hometown in North Carolina to New York, and thank you for the ease of communication during the mission process from start to finish. I have more hope now towards my spinal cord condition since this Neurosurgery appointment.
Please continue helping others in similar situations (you and your organization make a huge difference.)"
Why Become a Volunteer Pilot?
Save Lives
Tax savings
Provide Hope
Make a Difference
Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic is one of 6 volunteer pilot organizations that are part of Air Charity Network (ACN), a group of charitable organizations across the U.S. that work together to provide free air transportation for those seeking medical treatment.
More than 7,000 volunteer pilots across the country generously donate their time, aircraft and fuel, and fulfill more than 22,000 trips annually.
The pilots of ACN are committed to the mission of “giving hope wings” to children and adults in need.
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