Get Your COMPASSION Call Sign Today
The COMPASSION call sign is intended to clearly identify routine ambulatory patient transport and other public service missions conducted by volunteers including: animal transport, environmental flights, disaster response and other non-profit flying that serves the public interest.
Why Use COMPASSION?
- Identify yourself to ATC as a bona fide public benefit flight.
- Get access to special handling by ATC, providing a measure of safety and security for passengers who may have special needs due to medical reasons.
- Encourages you to file a flight plan or use flight following when flying a charitable flight for ground and inflight operations in U.S. airspace.
- Get authorization for flight operations during disaster response flights.
- Increase the value and awareness of public benefit flying within the aviation community.