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The Air Care Alliance (ACA) is an American group founded in 1990 that acts as an umbrella organization for Public Benefit Flying (PBF) organizations. PBF organization members use their aircraft to transport needy patients, to assist in disaster relief, to fly environmental support missions, to relocate wild or domestic animals, to provide educational flights for youth, and for many other missions of community and humanitarian support. Such flights are generically referred to as Compassion Flights. Most PBF group members are volunteer pilots, thus many PBFs are also called Volunteer Pilot Organizations (VPOs). The ACA website Listings Page is the only place where all such groups as are known are listed for the benefit of patients, social workers, medical referral groups, agencies needing assistance, or the volunteer pilots who wish to find all groups they might want to join. The Air Care Alliance is a nonprofit organization, chartered as a 501(c)(3) group and thus it serves the public benefit first. ACA exists to support and promote Public Benefit Flying so that patients and others can learn about the services provided by volunteer pilots and charitable aviation groups and so that information can be shared among the groups, improving the quality of their services and the safety of their flights. ACA encourages communications and cooperation among all PBF organizations in order that their members share experiences and learn from one another. ACA has held annual "Air Care" conferences since 1990 where leaders in Public Benefit Flying gather to meet one another and learn the latest about this charitable activity. ACA volunteers also work with aviation organizations such as the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, the Experimental Aircraft Association, the National Business Aircraft Association, and many others to promote the work of the volunteers who run the groups and provide the flights. ACA representatives also work with the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board to ensure that appropriate regulations apply to the flights in the interests of maximizing their benefit to those in need and our communities while enhancing the safety of flight. Most Public Benefit Flying organizations are chartered as non-profit organizations, permitting their members to take the costs of a flight as a charitable donation. The groups generally do not offer flying services themselves, rather they connect someone seeking a flight with a member pilot or pilots willing to provide it. ==History== In 1990, the first national conference of public benefit flying organizations, AIR MED 90, was conceived by Bill Worden, and organized by him and co-founder Rol Murrow at the headquarters of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, supported by AOPA's VP of Communications Patricia Weil Coates.〔(The Air Care Alliance ) at www.aircareall.org〕 At the meeting the delegates from many VPO's resolved to form the Alliance to better serve the needs of the public and to work in mutual support. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Air Care Alliance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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