Helicopter Heroes - Series 2
 

Hi folks,

Just thought some of you might be interested to know that the second series of Helicopter Heroes following the Yorkshire Air Ambulance will be starting Monday August 25th, BBC1, 0915. Apparently there will be 20 episodes.
Apologies if this has been previously posted.

Cheers

S

Heroes huh?

Isn't England pretty much operating a day behind Orstrailya.
just a thought?

Let's hope this series isn't like the first with 20 minutes of content spread into an hours TV by constantly telling you what's coming up and what just happened.

I appreciate it's formatted that way for when it's shown on channels with adverts like Dave, but it makes watching it on BBC like watching a show for those with no short term memory.

Then again looking at when it's aired perhaps that's who it is aimed at.

Then again looking at when it's aired perhaps that's who it is aimed at. :}

Like that, good laugh to start the day cheers tet


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Not at Beijing!!

Pay that.
These threads are oft inhabited by newbies looking for advice, well there are two inspirational things that they could take home from Beijing amogst all of the outstanding stuff I mean.

1) Reaction time. Oz's Sally McLellan out of the blocks in .138 of a second.

2) Determination. USA's swimmer Michael Phelps. This kid as a fifteen year old visited the Sydney Olympics, was tremendously inspired, already had a swim coach and I guess a rich daddy, however, he went home and said to his coach, that he was gonna be a successful Olyimpian.

True grit, if you wish and try hard enough, you can.:ok:

You couldn't be further from the truth. Michael Phelps came from a working class suburb of Baltimore and his parents went through a messy divorce in 1994. He was subsequently brought up by his mum.

And he was competing at the Sydney Olympics! (At the age of 15.)

goddamn, and there was small tapping at the back of my presumptuous head when I wrote that in misguided form. I'll just change the small tap to a big mallet.
looks like 'the kid' gets to be a better demonstration of initiative than ever. a clear example of fine endouver.

"1) Reaction time. Oz's Sally McLellan out of the blocks in .138 of a second."

Still lost though! ;)

I never cease to be amazed by PPRune!

scruggs helpfully provides us with some information about a future TV programme. Within a few hours, the thread is diverted into a bit of pommy bashing followed by a discussion about Olympic athletes.

Marvellous - great entertainment.

P.S. I went to Sydney once and was also tremendously inspired. But only by the amber nectar. hic

Skid mate

I went to Sydney, too, and spent a month lost in translation at King's Cross. I've never had so much VB or 'entertained' so many Girlie Olympians......although I hope they were girlies....bugger.....

Nic to see the "Pistonheads" "Speed Matters" sticker on the Promo's.

very much tongue in cheek for my part there, a great colleague, business partner and mate of mine who went by the nickname 'Possum' was a pom, and very sadly fell off the perch just recently.

He was certainly some sort an athlete in the amber nectar area, but with great stoicism and courage he told the quack to shove the extra treatment for the sake of a few extra months or maybe a couple of years.

He had left England as a youing fella (with some friendly advice from the local constabulary I might add), drove great big bull-dozers in west Oz to get a stake together to then learn rotary in Florida. Then back to the NT for a job.
He'd have had quite a chuckle at someone trying to work out the diff between girlie and girl in the cross.

Helicopter heros
 

Anyone know what type of helmet they are using in the show ?

Ah good a new YAA series - I look forward to seeing all the winching:)

I have to say (and bear in mind that I wasn't there and even the Beeb can over egg a situation in the name of drama) that there have been one or two jobs shown on Helicopter Heroes that I was surprised that they didn't get a SAR machine involved. Maybe they tried but the SAR cab was busy or bust or too slow. I can see why they might want a winch. But the pros and cons of that is another story.

But it's good to see helicopters being shown in a good light on the TV and hats off to all those guys at Yorkshire AA.

I agree with Droopystop - not really the best set up for the some of the mountain rescues they were doing...
Not bad altogether but its a shame the BBC have had to bulk up a 30 minute show into a 45 minute one!

Having waited myself for over an hour and a half waiting for a SAR cab to turn up in the Peaks, it's pointless calling sometimes which is very unfortunate... I still have a mate at YAA and he said that there are a few good AA/SAR cooperation jobs being shown in the series where the AA cant land due to the terrain..... Coming up, a big welldone to both Air ambulances and SAR for the work you do.:D

Helicopter heroes SAR/ Air ambulance
 

Just been watching todays Heli heroes and felt after all the bitching that goes on, here on this site, how well the air ambulance and SAR crews worked together.... Well done everyone keep up the good work!!!:D

BBC - BBC One Programmes - Helicopter Heroes, Series 2, Episode 15

Can see now why some AA's would welcome a winch.

But yet again today we had a situation where we are airborne on training, the AA flys past en route to a job on a coastal path 10 mins to the North. We finish training 30 mins later. Just as we sign the aircraft in we get scrambled to the same job because the AA can get the paramedics to the casualty but not extract the cas from the scene.

The end result is that the elderly cas has to spend an extra 45 mins to an hour on a cold hillside because no-one took the terrain into consideration when allocating a response. Ambulance Controllers need to use their brains rather than a checklist that seems to have SAR helicopters at the bottom.