chopper lands at Stansted
It is much the same in the UK. Once the callsign is changed to Alpha, the controllers know it is an emergency and the pilot has ultimate choose of landing site. In this case, the patient - according to one of the reports at least - collapsed in the coach station itself.
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Yes, you land as close to the patient as safely possible. Time is, after all, the name of the game. I can't see how this could possibly be a disruption to the regular air traffic to any mentionable degree. And if some people on the ground were late for some important meetings, it happens.
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Exactly. It should be no big deal to land a helicopter and the point I was making is that the whole thing (in UK, which is where we're talking about) it often tends to get blown out of all proportion by those that don't really understand what they are dealing with.
