Helicopter Heroes - Series 2

[Thud_and_Blunder]

pssst - jay, read the dates! Someone's resurrected a 4-year-old thread.

[jackjack08]

Four year old thread maybe...but it seems there's more to come, new series is due in late 2012 and the next new series is due mid 2013.
Somebody, somewhere, must be doing something right, as it's been going for ages.

Keep up the good work YAA.

[jayteeto]

Whoops, time warp!

[rotorboater]

I flew with them in 2008 - hope I don't have to do that again:roll eyes:

(Great guys and saved me a lot of further pain!)

[Bladecrack]

Controllers need to use their brains rather than a checklist

From what I've seen having visited the local ambulance control that task us, this is positively discouraged. Controllers, many with numerous years of experience do whatever the duty manager tells them to do on the day, (depending on which side of the bed they got out that morning, the phase of the moon, whether they are pro or anti-HEMS etc). The patient's best interests rarely come into it...