Originally Posted by
KiwiNedNZ
Question on that - in a dire emergency like this could you land on the pad but stay light on skids and unload or not possible ?
I was thinking similar. However surely they would also have alternate landing locations on solid ground near these hospitals with a short transfer using a regular ambulance?
In my home city, the main hospital has rooftop pad but when multiple helicopters are operating to the hospital, they have also used a nearby oval to land.
Addition: For flight decks on ships, the structure of the deck isn't only designed to deal with static weight of the helicopter, but dynamic loads due to unplanned hard landings. At one point "oleo ultimate load" was used as the basis for flight deck structural design, and at least one manufacturer had super strong oleos! Not sure of basis for design of civil engineering heli deck structures.