Thanks

[air pig]

Thanks to the 202 Squadron crew who did an aeromed transfer from Leeds Bradford to Durham and back into a Manchester Hospital. Fantastic with the help of a brilliant crew.

Patient safely retrieved and now has a far better chance of survival due to ECMO for the cuurent flu problem.

Transfer team said you were outstanding, with the usual 'can do' approach, far surpassing the normal large organisation attitude.

On behalf of the Doc and Nurse again many thanks, i was at the receiving end for your reception, sorting out ambulance offload etc, any suggestions that make life easier for both of us and improve a patient transfer. If the crew aren't on pprune can someone pass this message on.

Regards

Air Pig :ok::ok::ok::ok:

[TorqueOfTheDevil]

Nice of you to take the time to say something on PPrune - no doubt at least one of the crew will see your kind words.

It sounds like it went better on this occasion than a medevac into Machester RI on a Friday night in 2007 which I was on the crew for - we found the LS in the park without difficulty, but the NVG were struggling with all the cultural lighting so we binned them and did the approach RNF...would have been fine except somebody had set up a whole row of market stalls ready for some event over the weekend which we didn't see till below treetop height. We overshot promptly but too late to avoid upending all the stalls, and we landed the other side of a line of trees. Just as the wheels touched down, the HF crackled into life and the ARCC passed a message warning us to look out for a row of market stalls in the LS...oops. Turns out the white vehicle we had seen at the edge of the park wasn't the ambulance but the event organiser in a Transit, who had just finished setting it up...once we had shut down and the medics had departed for the hospital, we did offer to help him sort it out, but he declined our offer. In the meantime, the Police turned out in force to look after us, including several armed units - they said that the park was a good place to hang around late on a Friday night, ready for something to kick off in Moss Side just round the corner...maybe they knew that a bunch of sissy SARBoys wouldn't last 5 minutes without their protection. Eventually the medical team came back, the aircraft started as advertised (phew!), we went to Newcastle to deliver the patient and the feds no doubt watched the people get lairy (not very pretty, I tell thee).

Ah, those were the days...