Originally Posted by
SASless
Losing several lives out weighs that one life.....sorry!
You do no one any good if you kill yourself enroute or on the way home with the casualty!
HEMS is defined as a Safe, Dependable, Efficient Aeromedical Transportation Service. Operative words Safe and Dependable.
You're absolutly right!
But weather forecast is one thing, the actual weather another...
Have lifted off with a "flyable" METAR only to turn around, cause It wasn't...
And completed missions with Metar crab- but good enough visibilty in my "back garden" where I know every wire around...
I added [URL="https://www.windy.com/[/URL]
to my briefingequipment, so I can use webcams on route and on destination, to geht a better idea how the weather and visibility is (especially at night)
Still, it's a Crew decision with our operation- every member can say, it's gone far enough....
To get things straight, I'm not flying HEMS - just searching missing persons (elderly, kids, which need medication or freeze to death, if not found in time, attempted suizide who either decide not to die anymore but are already immobilised and unaware of their actual position or attempted suizide, where we might be there before they commit and stuff like that.
It's a crazy world out there....