Thud, strangely enough as soon as we heard where you were going to we knew we would get the job eventually but we can't really follow you around trying to poach jobs
- we have to wait until we are tasked through the ARCCK (although for urgent cases we could self scramble on the basis of information received).
It sounds like the ground party are the ones who need to visit us or you to understand the limitations of heli ops. You did find a place to land but that wasn't the issue, it was the location of the casualty and her extraction that was the problem. Surely they looked at the slope and realised a carry out wasn't feasible. We used to get WCAS paramedics fly with us every Friday but that seems to have died down - it promoted good heli awareness and an understanding of when SAR was the first choice not the last.
Next time you could call Chiv radio and make a formal request that we can then action quickly - we would have diverted from training and got there much quicker.
We did see the CG fall over - that was a result of a faff on our part (comms failure on Polycon) we wanted to winch the husband away from the overhead of the casualty and then move in to her. They tried to bring cas to heli
Look forward to the photos - cheers.