But yet again today we had a situation where we are airborne on training, the AA flys past en route to a job on a coastal path 10 mins to the North. We finish training 30 mins later. Just as we sign the aircraft in we get scrambled to the same job because the AA can get the paramedics to the casualty but not extract the cas from the scene.
The end result is that the elderly cas has to spend an extra 45 mins to an hour on a cold hillside because no-one took the terrain into consideration when allocating a response. Ambulance Controllers need to use their brains rather than a checklist that seems to have SAR helicopters at the bottom.