Whilst I have no direct inside knowledge of that HEMS job in China, I'd be staggered if the crewing didn't involve a recently minted company sponsored Chinese pilot, and they want a foreign guy with a bit of operational experience to make up a crew. Guessing also that said recently minted Chinese pilot probably did his pilot training in a native English speaking country, so he's probably competent enough at English to crew with a non-Chinese speaking pilot. Whilst said Chinese pilot probably has next to zero operational experience, he's probably OK as a pilot commensurate with his experience, and he's probably dedicated to his job and willing to learn. But you really need to seriously contemplate if you want to expose yourself to that environment, flying HEMS in often very limited visibility, amongst all those power lines that are as tall as skyscrapers.
If however it is a single pilot operation, and you don't speak Chinese, forget it. Doesn't matter how experienced a HEMS pilot you are, if you can't speak Chinese you are operationally useless.
Oh, and about that earlier post about taking 2 years to get a China work permit. Not so. My visa to travel to China took 4 days to process once the application was submitted to the local China Consulate. And after I arrived in China on that visa, my China work permit took about 10 days to process. If they want you the necessary paperwork can happen very quickly.
Last edited by gulliBell; 22nd September 2016 at 13:31.