Originally Posted by
rottenjohn
Hard to understand what sort of medevac it was to be a “private” operation. If there’d been any urgency surely they would have used the contracted provider who are an IFR operation.
My guess on why it was a private operation is that it was in response to a direct contact to the operator who is actually who you have called the contracted provider. This would likely be the case if the injured party was someone in the know and knew what they wanted and who they wanted to do it and the cost of the job was to be covered by their insurance rather than funded through the nz acc system.
So private as in privately and not public funded but definitely not private as in non commercial. Be it quite a wee stretch south of the mainland this is part of these guys back yard pretty much.