Airport Charges for Military Helicopter Emergency Flights
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The service they provided was building an airfield exactly in the position the SK wanted to land. Thats business. If aircraft wanted to land on your land would you allow them to free of charge? Nah ....
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Ah yes dear boy...but competition is a wonderful thing!
Keep yer rates too high for too long and someone will find a way to take care of the customer better than you.
Keep yer rates too high for too long and someone will find a way to take care of the customer better than you.
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The service they provided was building an airfield exactly in the position the SK wanted to land.
If aircraft wanted to land on your land would you allow them to free of charge?
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VecVec - when you take a casualty from a dangerous environment to a safe one it is called a rescue, when you take them from a dangerous environment to a medical establishment it is called a medrescue and when you take a patient from one medical establishment to another it is a medevac. Pedantic I know but that's what we have to put on our Form Rs because that is the official classification.
Whooper - I see your wife's point but there are so many different budget holders in the RAF alone, not to mention the rest of the MOD that no-one would be able to make a decision on billing without many years of committees and sub-committees, steering groups and the like, it would takes years of staff work just to work out who to send the bill to, let alone how much to make it for.
Maple01 - what's the grid reference?
Whooper - I see your wife's point but there are so many different budget holders in the RAF alone, not to mention the rest of the MOD that no-one would be able to make a decision on billing without many years of committees and sub-committees, steering groups and the like, it would takes years of staff work just to work out who to send the bill to, let alone how much to make it for.
Maple01 - what's the grid reference?
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Crab - spot on.
Its not entirely logical, but there is a boundary. RAF SAR got into considerable trouble with the BHAB some years ago for allegedly doing the industry out of work (we were underslinging building materials to a remote location for a charity that would otherwise had to do the job by backpacking several tons of cement etc).
I doubt very much that Plymouth Airport was where the SAR cab actually wanted to go. They wanted to land just outside the door of the local A&E (Derriford isnt it?). That, it seems from posts here, is not possible. You could try asking why. In several locations in the UK there are hospitals that have taken the trouble to establish landing sites that are within walking / carrying distance of A&E and that can cope with the largest helos in UK service. In others the consultants car park is in the crucuial spot.
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Its not entirely logical, but there is a boundary. RAF SAR got into considerable trouble with the BHAB some years ago for allegedly doing the industry out of work (we were underslinging building materials to a remote location for a charity that would otherwise had to do the job by backpacking several tons of cement etc).
I doubt very much that Plymouth Airport was where the SAR cab actually wanted to go. They wanted to land just outside the door of the local A&E (Derriford isnt it?). That, it seems from posts here, is not possible. You could try asking why. In several locations in the UK there are hospitals that have taken the trouble to establish landing sites that are within walking / carrying distance of A&E and that can cope with the largest helos in UK service. In others the consultants car park is in the crucuial spot.
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Crab,
you got me laughing out loud! There is nothing better to bring us back to earth than a bit of reality. You got the MOD nailed!!!
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you got me laughing out loud! There is nothing better to bring us back to earth than a bit of reality. You got the MOD nailed!!!
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Re: Airport Charges for Military Helicopter Emergency Flights
Pymouth City Airport is owned by Sutton Harbour Holdings, so I suppose as a commercial enterprise, they can charge whatever they want for the use of their tarmac. I'm rather surprised as to why the HLS at Derriford wasn't found to be more suitable, unless the patient being transferred wasn't going into the hospital - going to a local private establishment perhaps?
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Digin - as mentioned on a previous post, Derriford Hospital has its own LS which the Air Ambulance uses, but it is too small for a Sea King so any casualties brought in by SAR aircraft have to land at the Airport (just across the road) and be transferred by ambulance. Plymouth Airport have been less than helpful in the past with regards to parking etc and seem to attach no special importance to a SAR flight carrying a critically injured individual so it's not a huge surprise that they have started charging us as well.
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Sorry, crab, must have missed the post about the size of Derriford's HLS.
Last edited by diginagain; 4th Jan 2006 at 12:18.
