Matching

How an open mission finds its pilots. Three stages: who may be offered it, who hears about it first, and when it comes back to you. Change anything on the left and the mission on the right re-ranks as you go. Nothing reaches a pilot until you publish.

Active · v7 · since Sep 14History
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Who may be offered the mission

Hard rules. A pilot who fails one is not told about the mission at all. The count on each rule is how many pilots it removes for the mission in the preview.
Verified with Angel Flight Westlocked
Orientation, background check, flight review, insurance and mission count, as held in the EFB. Lapsed on any one means not offered, and the pilot sees why in the app.
Medical certificate valid through the mission datelocked
You may add a buffer so a pilot whose medical lapses the day after the flight is not offered a return that might slip.
plusdays
Aircraft fits the loadlocked
Seats for everyone, range for the leg with reserve, and the passengers plus bags inside the payload the EFB reports after fuel. The margin is yours to set; it cannot go under 5%.
margin%
Home base within reach of the departure airport
Straight-line distance from the pilot's home base. Wider finds more pilots and more of them decline for the positioning flight.
nm
Minors: experienced pilots, and never alonepart locked
A minor always travels with a caregiver or a second pilot aboard. Before a pilot is offered a mission with a minor they must have completed a number of missions with us.
at leastmissions
Wheelchair to aircraft: pilot has said they can assist a transfer
From the pilot's profile. Off means every pilot sees the mission with the mobility need marked, and decides for themselves.
Oxygen concentrator aboard: aircraft approved for it
The pilot has recorded that their aircraft and insurer allow a portable oxygen concentrator in flight.
Window ends after civil twilight: pilot is night current
Currency from the EFB logbook. Applies to the leg's latest acceptable arrival, not its planned one.
Honour the pilot's own exclusions
Longest leg, no mountain crossings, no IFR, no overnight. Pilots set these in the EFB. Off means they are offered anyway and the exclusion shows as a warning on the mission.
Rest between missions
Skip pilots who flew for us recently, unless they have opted in to back-to-back missions. Keeps the busiest pilots from hearing about everything first.
flew in the lastdays
Forecast outside the pilot's personal minimums
Compared with the latest 06:00 run for the leg's window. The forecast changes until departure, so showing the mission marked keeps the pilot in the loop; hiding it keeps the list honest.
2

Who hears about it first

Everyone who passes stage 1 is scored out of 100. The weights say what matters more. A weight of 0 removes the factor; the bar shows the share each one carries.
Closer to home base
Less positioning, more likely to say yes, cheaper for the volunteer.
8
Reliability
Completed against released in the last 24 months. A release for weather does not count against anyone.
7
Weather margin
How far the forecast sits inside the pilot's own minimums. Room means the flight survives a worse run.
6
Room in the aircraft
Payload to spare after passengers and bags. A tight fit fails the day the bag is heavier.
6
Knows the passenger or the airports
Flew this client before, or both airports. Familiar pilots make calmer days.
5
Spread the load
Fewer missions in the last 90 days first. Raise it when the same ten names keep flying everything.
5
Answers quickly
Median time to respond to an offer, yes or no. Silence is what costs you days.
4
Asked for this kind of mission
Pilots opt in to pediatric, oncology, long legs or mountain routes in the EFB.
3
Pilots never see a score. The EFB tells them why a mission reached them in words: Matched to you · home base within 250 nm · aircraft fit OK · you flew Rosa in October.
3

Waves, and when it comes back to you

The ranked list is told in waves, so the best-placed pilots get first refusal without the mission waiting on them for long.
Wave 1
the top pilots, at once, by push notification
Wave 2
after h with no offer: the next pilots, push and email
Wave 3
after h: everyone eligible, push, email and SMS; the mission is flagged on Today
Back to you
after h, or days before departure, whichever first: direct assign, relay, or evaluate commercial
Urgent missions skip the waves
Departing within 72 hours, or reposted after a release: everyone eligible is told at once and it comes back to you after 24 hours.
Pilots can see every open mission on the board
Waves decide who is told and when. The Missions tab in the EFB still lists every mission a pilot is eligible for, so a pilot who looks can always offer.

History

Every published version, who, and why. Restore any of them as a draft.
v7
Search radius 200 → 250 nm.
Central Coast missions were coming back to the coordinator at 72 h with nobody in range. · Maria Chen · Sep 14
v6
Added: aircraft approved for an oxygen concentrator.
Two concentrator missions in June went to pilots whose insurer said no, found on the day. · Maria Chen · Jul 2
v5
Spread the load 2 → 5; rest between missions on, 3 days.
The ten busiest pilots flew 61% of Q1. · Maria Chen · Apr 18
v4
Wave 2 at 24 h instead of 48.
Median time to first offer was 31 h; most wave-1 pilots who were going to answer did so in 6. · J. Okafor · Feb 9

The last 90 days, replayed

The 61 missions posted Aug 1 to Oct 29, matched again under the draft. Illustrative: real pilots would answer differently.
Outcomev7Draft
Green is better for passengers and volunteers; rose is worse. The two usually trade off, which is why the draft is yours to judge.

Try it on an open mission

Re-ranks as you change the rules. Pick a pilot for the arithmetic.
    Not offered