Wiltshire HEMS: night ops criteria?
Hi guys and gals
Was driving in my local area the other night and came upon a road accident. Emergency services in attendance and then out of the sky arrived the Wiltshire air ambulance and landed in a field at the side of the road. What particulary interested me was that this was at night and additionally I myself was a HEMS casualty some years ago. I understand that there only 2 Air ambulances in the UK that can operate at night (Wiltshire being one of them). My question is what criteria (equipment etc) are required to enable HEMS aircraft to operate at night, particularly in a rural area like mine in Wiltshire. My interest stems from as I mention earlier, I was fortunate to be attended by the Wiltshire air ambulance some years ago and secondly I am a helicopter engineer and weekend pilot. Many thanks
Trev