Motor Plane Driver
For civilian medical flights, Australia has adopted the following flight categories for the purpose of defining the priority which ATC must give to such flights in airspace or at aerodromes having high traffic movements – MERCY flights; MED 1 flights; MED 2 flights; HOSPITAL flights.
A flight providing transport of medical patients, personnel, and/or equipment, prioritised as:
- MED 1: An aircraft proceeding to pick up, or carrying , a severely ill patient, or one on whom life support measures are being taken.
- MED 2: An aircraft proceeding to pick up medical personnel and/or equipment urgently required for the transport of a MED 1 patient, or returning urgently required medical personnel and/or equipment at the termination of a MED 1 flight.
Jamair : Mercy flights happen all the time, the paperwork that follows is not over the top, its there to ensure that those provisions are only used when required.
