Thanks for that, Most of our flight are from the middle east to Europe, So what Im really interested in is what euro control, CFMU and other local ATC's guys think of this.
To me it seems logical that an air ambulance whether going to pick up a patient or having a patient onboard should have the same priority based on the patients condition. (NACA score)
Though we don't practice this in reality, It is also logical that most ambulance flight we do are long haul and are preplanned so that the patients actually don't leave the ICU's until A/C's are on the ground ready to receive them.
But there are times when we have failled to cordinate this and had a dying patient on the ambulance on the ground waiting for the air ambulance to land, and we are unable to get through to the A/C.
If any one has some hard facts on regulations on Air ambulance rights ICAO or JAA much appreciated.
This will help some more people.
Thanks