Originally Posted by
homonculus
Sorry KJ I cannot believe you are serious. Even ignoring the risk to people on the ground are you really advocating accepting deaths of pilots and healthcare workers every tenth flight???? Crab is right - this sort of nonsense is what is costing innocent lives in the EMS world and amongst well meaning amateurs. Even in standard land ambulances we do not put healthcare workers at risk even if patients come to harm as a result - your argument would result in hundreds of dead and maimed ambulance workers just attending standard trauma events on our roads. And a helicopter in this respect is just an expensive ambulance
Of course I am not seriously advocating this. Sheesh. Jeez guys, do I have to spell it out for you? Do you all have to treat everything you read literally?
Just pointing out that it's just so easy to be all pious and holier than thou when sitting behind your keyboard.
As to being serious "risk to people on ground"? FFS discussion was re island to island hops in Fiji not a flight across NYC!
I think a lot of you haven't traveled much and have no idea what people in places like Fiji are dealing with.