Sheeeez 'S8' those days are long gone lifting patients that heavy by hand.
Nurses where the worst sufferers of that practice, talk to any older nurse & you will find their backs are stuffed from lifting pateints day in day out manually.
Am puzzled how the NSW Govt say that an extra $10 Mill per plane will be needed to carry the fatties of our society
So to my figuring that means an A/C costing around $18-19 Mill each for the Ambo service, what just to carry a few fatties every now & then? I don't think so
Besides the B200 costs around $8.5 Mill @ to put into service, what the hell costs $18+Mill (adding the so called $10 Mill per airframe) & still get in & out of the short dirt strips single pilot?
'Plovett' as you would know ( I assume) assisting any lifting device with the human hand is forbidden, OH&S laws would string you up for doing so. But I know the practice does happen, at yr own peril I say.
The Govt are good for one thing, they are a great source of entertainment !
Wmk2