Originally Posted by
jimf671
I think you'll probably find that the Norwegian approach of longlining the air ambulance paramedic into difficult incident locations and then using the SAR fleet for extraction is safer, cheaper and quicker.
Perhaps suitable for such a large land mass where there are more HEMS aircraft than SAR cabs? In the UK a good number of the HEMS cabs are at the same airfields as the SAR aircraft. Forget the longline and use the hoist that is already available and paid for, just sat waiting for a task! I could get onboard with that idea Jim if UK SAR was at max capacity but it’s far from it and an expensive asset to just there waiting for Retrival jobs while the UK spends even more money training another group of aviators to do what’s already available?!