Seen Over Your House Today

[Martin H]

Not quite sure what she was doing around this neck of the woods, but we had XH558 at low level using the Village church as a turning point marker for around 15 minutes this afternoon. Im assuming she was here for another photo session with the Blades over Sywell. If that was the case, It wont have been great as the cloud base has been very low here all day.

[pyro-manic]

Geese. About 200 of them, in one enormous group (four intersecting V-formations), flying along Chesil beach. Quite a sight.

[bobbo]

At Dover AFB this Afternoon: An Antonov AN-76 in Pakistani (!??!) markings.  A REAL surprise!

(edited 9/4/13  to "oops" factor)


bobbo

[Sticky Fingers]

How about 'Seen In Front Of Your House Today'?

[PR19_Kit]

Hehehe, I note the guy ABOVE it taking a piccie too! 

What ever was going on?

[scooter]

VC-32A out of Andrews, C-130 (I think) on a short final, and KC-135 doing touch and goes at KACY this morning.

[Rheged]

What ever was going on?

My thought exactly.  I know that ADAC  is the German equivalent of the AA, but  do they run an air ambulance service?

[scooter]

What ever was going on?

My thought exactly.  I know that ADAC  is the German equivalent of the AA, but  do they run an air ambulance service?

From Wiki:

Both the ADAC, and its older rival AvD (the organizer of the German Grand Prix), are members of the FIA and the DMSB. The European Grand Prix, the former ADAC Eifelrennen, the 24 Hours Nürburgring and many other races are hosted by ADAC.

The ADAC also operates a large fleet of mobile mechanics in yellow cars that assist motorists in trouble - the Yellow Angels. The ADAC runs its own modification center whereby ordinary vans are turned into mobile garages (pictures only depict Ford Galaxies) in 55 man-hours.

In addition to this, the ADAC provides 44 helicopters for urgent medical rescues in Germany, strategically placed so that any location can be reached within 15 minutes. Air ambulance jets are used by the ADAC to rescue their members with a "PLUS" membership or customers who own an ADAC international travel insurance from any location worldwide in the case of accident or extreme sickness. During the 2004 Tsunami in south east Asia, the ADAC evacuated thousands of German citizens and members from the region.

[Sticky Fingers]

The ADAC works together with their Dutch equivalent, the ANWB and they in turn have the Medical Air Assistance as one of their subsidiaries. They lease the helicopter from the ADAC, and it is stationed on the roof of the university hospital in Groningen (hence the UMCG on the side of the cabin), and its work field stretches from the four provinces in the north-east of the Netherlands including the Wadden Isles, to the German Wadden Isles and, if need be, Germany itself, in the border area.

As for the reason why the chopper was basically in my backyard: as far as I know a 3-year old lad needed CPR and when the call came they didn't know if he needed a quick transport to the UMCG so they took no risks. In the end they revived him on the gallery outside his house and moved him to the local hospital by regular ambulance. I don't know anything else, but I do hope he makes a quick recovery.

[perttime]

Here in Finland, transporting the patient to a hospital is only a secondary purpose for medical helicopters.
The primary thing is to get a Doctor and Nurse ER team to the patient quickly. That is what makes the difference in most cases.
If the patient lives, the Doctor makes the call about transportation by air or ground.
The one in my area is stationed at the airport where support for flying things is conveniently available.

[The Wooksta!]

A very dirty yellow ASR Sea King flew over work just after I left, presumably heading north to RAF Boulmer.

[Sticky Fingers]

The primary thing is to get a Doctor and Nurse ER team to the patient quickly. That is what makes the difference in most cases.
If the patient lives, the Doctor makes the call about transportation by air or ground.

That's probably what happened here too.

[scooter]

As for the reason why the chopper was basically in my backyard: as far as I know a 3-year old lad needed CPR and when the call came they didn't know if he needed a quick transport to the UMCG so they took no risks. In the end they revived him on the gallery outside his house and moved him to the local hospital by regular ambulance. I don't know anything else, but I do hope he makes a quick recovery.

Here in the States, medivac choppers are used primarily for urgent transport of serious trauma (life/limb/eyesight) and burn patients to the respective hospitals.  If the local first responders believe that it'll take more than 15 minutes (The Platinum Quarter Hour) to extricate and evacuate by ambulance, they'll put in the call for a chopper, subject to standing orders and protocols (Every state's different).  As one NJSP flight medic said, during a Continuing Ed class about Northstar (One of New Jersey's dedicated medivac birds) "We don't do CPR, unless its a sudden traumatic arrest enroute."

[NARSES2]

Unusual day. Normally we just get high flying airliners. Today however a few lowish single engine civilian prop jobs and what looked a bit like a twin engine Islander. Not sure about that but the wings had that Islander look.

The approach path to Biggin must have changed today or something ?

Chris

[Howard of Effingham]

yesterday afternoon at 1740hrs, a RAF merlin helo flew by my place on finals to coventry airport.

it looked a little different as i am sure the IFR probe wasn't fitted.