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From The Air Care Alliance!

FAA REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2018 INCLUDES LIABILITY PROTECTION FOR VOLUNTEER PILOTS

The Air Care Alliance applauds the passage of The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018!

When signed into law, volunteer pilots who conduct flights to help those in need and our communities on behalf of nonprofit organizations will no longer have to be concerned about liability in excess of the limits of their insurance coverage. Other volunteers have enjoyed this protection for decades.

Section 584 of the Act which provides this protection applies to flights for “patient and medical transport (including medical transport for veterans), disaster relief, humanitarian assistance, or other similar charitable missions.”

Jeff Kahn, Air Care Alliance Chairman and head of its Legal and Regulations Committee, notes that “ACA has been working for this legislation for more than a decade, with the support of aviation organizations including GAMA and AOPA. In addition, our most sincere thanks go to Senator Jim Inhofe whose relentless efforts over the past several years have finally resulted in the passage of this legislation, and to his colleagues in Congress who strongly supported it.”

As a result, pilots will no longer fear that their good deeds could place their families at financial risk. Pilots who have refrained from charitable flying because of these concerns can now join the ranks of countless thousands of other volunteers who contribute their skills and resources for the public good. Non-pilot volunteers have long enjoyed the same protection under the Volunteer Protection Act of 1997.