Air Ambulance rapid descent into hospital
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- Air Ambulance descending from 1000ft to the helipad in 1min
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An air ambulance saved my life in 2006 when my torso was crushed by a 20+ ton piece of construction equipment (CAT grader). I am 100% here today to watch my son grow up because of the people that decide to make this their profession. (Wife was 5 months pregnant at the time). A truly impactful way to contribute to society.
happy to hear you made it!
good to hear that. Hope you fully recovered, but even if not youre still alive and thats matter 👍🏻
Your absolutely right. I work on the outskirts of Baton Rouge next door to a air ambulance service. I've told the people that work there how noble of a profession they have. Their someone's last hope at life when they do what they do.
I'll bet your foreman was PISSED he had to write that report...
i didn't come here to cry. play catch with him tomorrow man.
My Mom fell down the stairs at her farm house and hit her head very badly. STARS (Alberta’s) air ambulance landed in a field next to her home and flew her to the hospital in under 15mins where her life was saved! Thank you to everyone who is dedicating their lives to doing this! Your efforts let families and loved ones be together for longer!
good thing you live in Canada, in US they would charge you a bill for that ride))
@@Timo_Adventures I live by a field they use regularly for air ambulances (and refuling water bombing heli for Calfire). Did some research into the subject. Yeah ya pretty much gotta choose between your life and sending your kids to college. And sometimes you don't even get to make that call yourself, someone does it for you. You just wake up after being at the brink of death, find out you owe close to $100k and then have a heart attack. It's not always directly from the accident either. Sometimes you're taken to a regional hospital, where they stabilize you, then decide you're too complicated for them and they stick you in the heli to take you to a bigger hospital. Again often while you're unconscious.
@@Timo_Adventures They DO charge you for a bill. Same as a regular ambulance. Healthcare is NOT free in Canada. If you’re not charged for a bill like an ambulance, you pay through the nose in taxes. Our taxes are actually insane. And cost of living.
@@AL-31 how much the bill ? there is no such thing like this in SEA lol..
@@maulanaiman4448 Idk about in Canada but in the US you can easily pay upwards of $25,000 to be airlifted to hospital
These folks are the real deal people. Absolutely astonishing how precise they are in their quest for saving people's lives.
The worst part about it is that the flight paramedics who are doing all of the life saving invasive techniques GET PAID SHIT MONEY
@@aaronortega1083 I completely agree. I was flabbergasted a few years ago when I met an EMT around here ( east Texas) making $13 an hour.
@@clownchaostime3024 wtf damn!!
@aaron ortega I work for the largest not for profit air medical program in the US. Air medics are doing just fine trust me. Our entire company pays really well and keeps up with inflation. The hero's in those ground units however...write your local politician because they are getting a raw deal. Not sure what they do in Europe where this seems from.
@@williamkemper7211 it depends bro. A flight nurse gets paid exponentially more, meanwhile they can’t do not even half of what a paramedic does clinically… honestly, the issue is education. Until they start requiring an associates/bachelors and making it a license instead of a certificate for paramedics. Then the pay will always be absolute garbage.
In the late 70's I worked on the offshore drilling rigs. We made crew change via helicopter. At that time all the pilots were vietnam vets and the choppers we flew were the UH-1 (Bell 205)
Once, I was riding in the front seat (left side) and talking with the pilot. He talked about something he called a "tactical approach". He demonstrated it on the landing. Hard banked turn that ended up with the nose pointed straight at the ground and we're going sideways like in a funnel. Down, down we go in this nose down funnel until he pulled the nose up and landed.
I will never forget that ride.
Manx great story. I bet that was a once in a lifetime experience. Humans are capable of just about anything, just gotta put your mind to it and find something worth doing.
I remember one guy said you don't wanna know how many of them often ended up flying their missions drunk as skunks lol
The Vietnam War Huey Pilot is the best helicopter pilot that will have ever taken to the air, probably.
I miss those hueys
Hey Jack, you probably flew with my grandfather Ronald Wingo a few times given your time line. That's cool stuff.
Good analogy mate. I believe that technique is actually called a funnel.
I used to be a security officer at a hospital and one of my duties was to deal with the helicopters coming in/out. Referred to them as 10-76’s over the radio, we had to prep the landing pad(turn lights on, check for debris and unlock the gateway to it) and escort the crew to and from there destination. One of the fun parts of the job, during the winter one time a few of us made a bet to see who could stand outside the van the longest while they landed and all the snow was getting kicked up from the rotors lol. Good times.
Nice!
10-76 - enroute
Former biomed tech here and our hospital had two helipads. One on the roof and one outside ER. ER was quicker but a harder landing. One winter they had to use that one because the rooftop one had a layer of ice on it and facilities was using torches to try and melt it. We also had a chopper that during take off from that pad had a small tail strike in the snow pile. We came outside for a smoke break and were wondering why they were taking it apart to put on a truck to repair.
Yup, getting hit by snow good times.
10-76 was "enough route" for us in the fire dept 20 years ago! I was just looking at our "Ten Codes" list haha
Total bad ass! Not all heroes wear capes, but that doesn’t mean they can’t fly
Well said! Screenshot right here
cringe
No more “not all heroes wear capes,” 🙄
@@OregonCrow just like you😉
@@WeazelNewsUSA Name checks out.
When I was in the Army, we had two heat casualties during the middle of a mission...on top of a mountain. CASEVAC was called and a Chinook showed up roughly 15 minutes later. We watched in awe, as this pilot....without ever touching down, sat his back ramp on the mountain side...with all 4 landing wheels still in the air, and held that for a solid 60 seconds as they loaded both soldiers. I am still to this day conflicted as to how to feel about all of that. Kinda broke my heart that we lost two soldiers that day, but on the other hand...was one of the most inspiring things I have ever seen in my life. I crewed Abrams tanks for years, and from that day forward...I dreamed of flying thanks to that pilot and his actions of that mountain.
That’s beautiful bro, thank you for sharing that honestly. Sometimes you find Beauty in the most unlikely of places
I miss Afghanistan
Thank you crazytrain for your service
This is known as a pinnacle landing, and although pilots know they will almost never need to do it, they are still trained to do it in rare cases like this.
Air Ambulance saved my dads life back in 2010 when a old lady turned left down a divided highway directly into the path of my dad on his Harley. He was doing everything right, ATGAT and all. He few 50ft through the intersection and slide another 20. They air lifted him to the nearest ER and he barely made it. He was having seizures on the gurney when being rushed to the OR. They definitely are the reason he’s still alive. Thank you.
@@adisk8PL I think the problem here is old people driving reckless, not his dad
Dont know why you would suggest that when he just explained it
@@adisk8PL - Here is someone who has no life and lives in the basement of his uncles wearing his aunties bras and panties
@@adisk8PL f you, pay respect
@@adisk8PL what? What the fuck are you talking about? He was cruising at the speed limit in the far right lane of a divided highway. Wasn’t speeding, wasn’t doing anything wrong. Then a 92yo lady turned the wrong way down the road and directly in front of him.
How was the Harley he was riding make that happen? You sir, are a top tier loser and pathetic excuse for a human. I bet your parents are deeply ashamed of you.
Fuck. Sounds like extensive trauma to the nervous system, not to mention the likely abrasions and fractures. He's one tough man!
That was so damn smooth I didn't even realize just how much altitude they shaved off with that little circle they did.
Relatively not much.
@@miciboo9993 In fact probably added time if anything. If he's at a given height and has to land then the descent is the descent, irrespective of the route.
@@garymitchell5899 lol. Helicopters definitely descend faster while in a loop like that, compared to simply descending straight down. I'm also fairly certain that if you descend to quickly in a straight line, you can lose lift and not be able to catch it before landing.. so...
@@strider5119 Some helicopters the pilot has to keep the rotor blades "loaded" otherwise they can smack into the fuselage. Making a steep turn at a low speed is an easy and quick way to lose altitude...yes.
@@garymitchell5899 haven't flown a helicopter but for fixed wing the spiral is the way to go. I imagine in a helicopter the benefit is that you won't have to add that much power back to slow the descent in the end. If the helicopter is turboshaft that might be even better idea given how long it takes them to spool up from idle.
I was a firefighter for a few years. I worked with some incredible firemen. I have to say that there is no one anywhere as cool, calm, and collected as an air medic stepping onto your scene to assess the situation and begin intervention without skipping a beat. They brought the calm to the storm every time and it was one of the coolest things I got to experience; often on the most traumatic calls I was ever a part of.
Yea, if you're on a Life Flight, things are really bad and literally every second counts. All the respect to these pilots, they are angels/heroes every time they're called upon.
If you live you want to die from the massive debt that helicopter ride costs you.
@@MrKLX110rider Only in the good old USA
In the US, pure distance may also be a factor. In certain parts of the West, there are places where you can be more than three hours by ground ambulance from the nearest level 2 trauma center, and even if you're relatively stable at the moment, three hours is more than enough time for things to go to hell in a handbasket.
Not so fun fact: the majority of life flights are unnecessary, and the cost of the flight often hits the tens of thousands, which may be passed onto the patient in full.
@@naverilllang But if they pay like $15k/year for health insurance, the insurance will prolly pay up to $750 for the air ambulance! Then they'll only be out of pocket like $24,250 before having to pay for the health care!
TL;DR. The AF Medevacs are impressive to watch.
My Dad was in the Florida Highway Patrol for 21years and he said that the most impressive medevac he saw was over near Pensacola.
I forget when it was but it was a multi vehicle accident, a few dead, and several critical and the nearby hospitals didn't have enough Air-Hearts available so Eglin AFB sent one or two of their Medevacs to get the remaining patients and transport them.
He said that they setup the landing zone on a bridge next to the accident site (this was on I-10) and the Air-Hearts would come in, do about 3 circles then come in for landing, but just before the AF Medevac got there they called over the radio to make sure the LZ was clear and once they got the all clear they didn't do any circles and they just quickly plopped down on the bridge, only slowing down enough as to not damage the transport, picked up the patients and were gone.
He said the AF maybe took about 2 minutes from landing, to loading, then taking off and he and the other troopers where very impressed.
Thanks for putting the TLDR before and not after lol
When I was in basic training I tried out for para-rescue/combat controller jobs and didn’t make it. Those jobs are the elite jobs of the Air Force, total bad-asses akin to special forces. Much respect for those who made it.
@@TheMyeloman they are special forces. They’re apart of the Air Force special operations command. They act as medics and jtacs attached to seal teams and other tier one assets. Guys are straight fucking G’s.
@@hunterramsey3132 pj’s are special operations. The only special forces in the whole military are the green berets. Everyone else including seals, raiders, rangers, delta, etc are special operations.
Every air ambulance pilot is a fing legend. Unsung hero’s of the healthcare world
Alot, if not most of them are Ex MEDEVAC pilots too. The absolute best of the best in terms of pilots
What about the one that crashed and killed everyone onboard. Is he a legend too?
@@g.g.hochstetler2286 I have a friend just like you LMAO
@@g.g.hochstetler2286 lmao
Word. Not all heros wear capes, but a whole lot of them fly the shit out of a helicopter!
These guys helped deliver an organ for my Dad around 4 years ago. Without these guys, my Dad would not be here today.
Thank you so much for the job you guys are doing!
These ones always hit me in the feels. I was life flighted in a bad way, fully conscious but multiple breaks (compound too) and distorted. Both my legs snapped like twigs, back broken and severed artery. Last thing I remember is landing and then I was put in an induced coma.
These pilots/paramedics literally change the course of people's lives and I'm still around to watch my kids grow up. Bravo.
I was an ED/Trauma nurse...watching these guys...and sometimes gals...land was astonishing...they were as full of skill and confidence as 10 trauma surgeons...you've got to be when flying helicopters...because helicopters don't actually fly, they are the Chuck Norris of flying machines...the air itself yields to their awesomeness and gets out of their way...
They beat the air into submission. 😁✌️😎🕊
Well said my friend!
"sometimes gals" lmao wind your glasses in
We had a few female air med helicopter pilots...they were skilled pilots...you don't fly aeromedical if you aren't damn good...yes, I'm an old dude, so I use old dude language, but the female pilots were as good as the dudes...there weren't as many...but, they were good, those that we had...
@@marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938 I would love to one day do this job but i am afraid I will never find a job opening. How much experience do you need for this? I want to go for my ppl(H) and cpl(H) but is it worth it before i waste 70 grand?
I got to ride in one of these a few months ago in August. I had a dirt bike accident and wound up having a seizure. They weren't sure if I had broken anything or what. Truthfully I was fine, but I wasn't moving for a bit that's for sure thanks to paralysis worries.
It was fast, I was in and out of it a lot, also tried to talk with the crew to keep myself awake so I wouldn't fall unconscious again fully.
Since I was perfectly fine except for a massive concussion, I was worried that I had taken valuable helicopter resources away from those who needed it. But I also realized afterwards, the professionals flying these helicopters are unbelievably fast and efficient, and they go so quick that even me in my accidents and such - likely didn't even take away from their regular rescue schedule. Absolutely wild, and I have the utmost respect for emergency service workers (before the accident, and a little more now afterwards!)
Glad you are safe and still here.
Reminds me when I was 5 and needed transported by air to the children's hospital 100 miles away to have my heart shocked back into rhythm. I was born with quite a few heart issues, and I was going through what's called a Tet Spell from my condition. Only way they could fix it was to stop my heart, and shock it back into rhythm. It was crazy.
I now help out quite a bit with all life flights and transfers at my local hospital where I work. I'm not ED, but they call on the Acute Care for help regularly with us being a small hospital. Always enjoy being up there.
My sister needed to be Life Flighted
The crew and their actions was carried out with the utmost precision. Very impressive the way they handle themselves and their machine. It's now been a few years ago and I still remember them and how impressed I was.
she survived?
There was this little kid at my local ski resort (probably less than 10 years old) who was skiing alone for some reason. He found his way into the terrain park and straightlined a 40 footer to flat. He broke both his legs to the point where the bone was shredding his muscles and shit and he was bleeding to death. Heli 100% saved that boys life.
when you say a 40 footer, do you mean a full size slopestyle main jump ( xgames /olympics ) - usually 3 in a row to end the run? That's insanity to be anywhere near those things if you do not know what you are doing.
It also proves the point, Dont swim alone, dont Dive alone, Dont Ski alone.
edit : ALSO WEAR A HELMET !!!!!
@@OneMouseGaming yeah I think 40 feet is on the smaller side of professional slope-style jumps. I actually took a video of a friend of mine going off the same jump the season after and breaking his wrist.
@@OneMouseGaming th-cam.com/video/1VU7MaDgyz8/w-d-xo.html 0:34 in this video. He actually didnt send it as deep as that kid did.
@@ryanv1279 wow first off thanks for the timestamp . thats a big jump. It looks like your friend was too far forward, shin tounge is good but it looks like hes flapping to keep from rolling into a front flip.
The guy has balls for trying it for sure. No shade intended.
Another lesson kids. NEVER EVER use your arms to catch you when falling. My wife was riding a skateboard in one of our college years apartments, going back and forth to work on balance.... wearing ugg like boots. She got to the front door, pushed off and the board went.... she did not. She had fracture of the left shoulder socket.
Never catch yourself with your arms people, tuck , roll, think like a paratrooper or snow sport professional. Try to spread that impulse moment out across your entire body and stretch out its duration. I feel like learning how to fall correctly ., maybe at a trampoline park would be a good move for some one that's really worried about eating it when they go to the mountain.
No shade on your friends at all. I have seen that clip and montage before. To think the kid went further is just insane ,,,, ( was it really easy to get into the terrain park? No way the kid wanted to hit that and think he was going to make it.
I'm east coast but have family in inner colorado. I want to hit some jumps, maybe a few flat boxes, but never in a million years would i dream of even straight airing that jump....
{ (My sister and her now husband worked for the same non profit in aspen for years so they got rent assistance. - Amy would send me footage of events say going on in the middle of the day while shes on the lift, and she had a good one of the half pipe... apparently back then it was whoever was willing to hike up it, so you could be stupid close. ( Again she and her husband are not rich assholes, they just ground it out to live and ski there and now own a house in a more approachable but still inner Colorado town. ) }
@@OneMouseGaming that was the first day that park was opened, so he was the guinea pig to test how fast the snow was running. He decided to just go straight and adjust from there😂
High recon over the helipad to verify no obstacles/people are a threat, verify wind direction and velocity based on the windsock adjacent to the helipad, perform a quick pre-landing checklist, bring it around for an into-the-wind landing. Beautiful, smooth landing.
@@johnllamas1645 That is reality. That’s literally what they were doing.
@@johnllamas1645 He/she knows what they are talking about
@@johnllamas1645 Your lack of understanding a landing profile just demonstrated which one of us is actually a rotorcraft/helicopter pilot, and which one plays video games. ;-p
Airmanship. But I see 737s do the same thing into uncontrolled airports.
Not sure the controversy here. A high recon is literally included in the pts.
I was Life Flighted from the middle of nowhere to Hermann Hospital after falling asleep at the wheel on a drive back to college. First responders assumed I was dead until they got close enough to hear me. Thank you guys, gave me a second chance that I'm more careful with.
I live with my parents on a small island. Helicopter and plane air ambulances saved my parents’ lives on two occasions. I wish I could thank the EMTs and pilots in some way.
Check to see if the air ambulance has a Facebook page. For example, when I lived in CT we had life star and they had a page that they regularly interacted with the community on
You can, my parents both do a lot of charity work for them, raised thousands to support them. There is always a way to help
You should make videos about your family's island life!
I'm sure I've got an even faster method of descending. Seeing that I would be arriving at a hospital anyway...
Ending up at the infirmary and not the mortuary is the catch here
Lmfao
Yes. Yes you could.
Once.
Yeah if you turn off the engine.
@@miciboo9993 No need, just roll off the throttle. You can do an autorotation with the engine at idle (which is how they are practiced in training). But better be a good pilot and not miss your landing spot.
Saved my daddy's life once, from Goshen Ohio to Cincinnati hospital emergency room in 8 minutes, he said when they took off it was like he was standing up on the Gurnee! Thank you guys for what you do!
When I was just a baby I had to be air lifted to a hospital. Thanks for saving lives all of you air medics out there!
If I could somehow manage to hug every single emergency response member I would. You have saved my mother more than once and the time I have with her is all thanks to your swift actions. I love you men and women who dedicate your lives to this...you make a difference.
Rapid descent has to be carried out with sufficient airspeed to prevent going into a state of Vortex ring which can cause the helicopter to settle in its downwash without chance of recovery if insufficient altitude. Its called The dead mans curve. Anything below 500 foot in a state of vortex ring means you will crash into the ground.. I'm a helicopter pilot and this is one of the first things that's taught to you in your training, what it is, how to get into it and more importantly how to recover if you have enough altitude
Very interesting, so if you try to hover high over a landing spot and descend straight down you can lose lift? (I understand what translational lift is).
So if you're operating a heli with the intent of lifting something heavy (like with a sky crane), do you have to lift it with the rotors instead of trying to winch it up so you don't get pulled down into your own wash from the sudden addition of weight?
@@kilroy2517 If you descend vertically too quickly your rotors will lose lift and you fall to the ground. Happens to me all the time in DCS with the Huey. You can counter this by descending with a forward motion as you can see in the video. Not easy.
Keeping up a good forward airspeed keeps the rotor down wash (vortex) BEHIND you not dangerously underneath you (he's maintaining 90 knots in this case). That's the difference between this perfectly good fast approach and a lower forward speed 'vertical' approach with a high rate of descent.
@@kilroy2517 yea u never want to descend right down into your own prop wash, bad things will happen
You beat me to it
Heliport at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, a fairly common expeditious approach and landing. Airbus H145 helicopter operated by East Anglian Air Ambulance, probably Anglia one, G-RESU
I worked here 2006-2007 and was fairly sure it was the NNUH due to its huge size and isolation- thanks for confirming :)
I thought it looked like Norwich to
I‘m pretty sure it‘s an EC135.
@@SuperApple1995 If it is indeed the EAAA, they only operate the H145 iirc. I actually thought it was a 135 given how ubiquitous they are in the HEMS role in the UK but I'm only an amateur Heli enthusiast. Amazing skills by the pilot, all in a days work!
Well its certainly not expediting anything...moreover its taking much longer to land than necessary. Literally wasting precious time.
I work security at a hospital and get to clear and guard the helipad when these bad boys land. It’s flipping incredible what these guys do for people and maybe one day if I work hard enough I’ll get the same chance.
Passionate people can change the lives of millions. Good luck
The level of respect I have for emergency pilots is beyond measures.
I have seen them land or pick up people in situations that still make me scratch my head. I have seen them land inbetween fences, with less only a meter between the blade tips and the fence on two sides and I have seen them hover on steep mountain sides with one slide in contact to the mountain while loading people. Those guys are mad lads and absolute heroes to say the least.
These people are pure heroes, nothing less.
The amount of lives saved by these guys and the NHS, we do not realise how lucky we are to live in a country with this free service, that so often gets abused by so many...
Be very thankful its free in the U.S. it costs 10s of thousands of dollars to use one.
@@Riverrockphotos Yes, I would rather my family let me die before paying that bill
Air ambulances don't save any more lived than normal ambulances statistically
@@Riverrockphotos You aren’t required to pay though. They are obligated to life flight you whether you can pay or not. Worst case scenario you can’t pay then your credit takes a hit. That only lasts 7 years. There’s a big misconception out there that they will just let you die if you can’t afford medical bills in the US
@@EoRdE6 That is why I mentioned the NHS as well :)
In America:
*Man wakes up from being unconscious*
Random person leaning over them: Don’t worry, I called the hospital. They’re sending a helicopter
Man: you fucking WHAT
That will be a billion dollars sir.
Healthcare system is one of the major things that really sūck in America
😂😂😂
@@e.c.listening326 not healthcare but the cost of healthcare
@@freedom5941 agreed, the quality of healthcare in the U.S. is one of, if not the best, in the world. it’s the *insurance* aspect that sucks. something many people confuse
AirEvac saved me TWICE. Catastrophic skull and brain injury-in flight nurse jump started me twice. 1st time.
2nd time about 80 days later-brain bleed again from original surgery, and both captain and nurse got me chilled out, I was terrified and in horrifying pain (again...) they BOTH talked me calm while she gave me the morphine shot, and he circled ‘round just a couple seconds in out of his flight plan to show me the lights of Las Vegas at night out the little window...and still got me to the hospital in a ridiculously short amount of time.
These people are serious performers of complete badassery. Amazing folks. Absolutely amazing. I owe them eternal gratitude. ⭐️
I’m so grateful that we have helicopters and the people who pilot them. My little sister got kicked in the head by a horse and had to go to Primary Children’s in Salt Lake, but we lived in the lower part of Utah, about 100 miles away. She definitely wouldn’t have made it if we had to drive her there. She’s made a full recovery, completely unscathed besides her short hair and scars from the surgeries. She’s with us today not only because of the doctors and surgeons who helped her, but because of the people who got her to them in time.
I met one of these guys when he landed in the parking lot of a tradeshow. That cat had fighter pilot confidence!
To be fair, most (at least in the US) air ambulance pilots are ex-military pilots.
So what you're saying is, that cat was no pu$$y...
Medical Helicopter pilots and flight nurses are some pretty incredible people! They work hard, and definitely save countless lives.
A air ambulance saved my life back in 05 I was just 2 years old when my father accidentally ran me over in our drive way crushing 5 ribs puncturing a lung and lacerating my spleen and many other injuries I can’t recall. Our house was out in the woods far from hospitals so I got picked up by one of these and without those guys I certainly would not be here today so thank you 🙏
Dang, your dad probably feels so bad. I cant imagine. Do you recall it at all being so young?
@@hairybelly9910 I actually do remember looking up at the car from underneath and feeling nothing. Almost like my entire torso was numb. All I really remember
I met a pilot with 30 years of flying experience, and he said these helicopter pilots are the best pilots in the world.
Rapidly???
You've never seen a medivac decend into an LZ to pull out wounded.
You would be shocked.
I owe my life to a medivac pilot who came down so fast that he almost broke the landing struts and as soon as I was loaded, that pilot pulled up and over at full pitch never slowing down.
One hell of a ride!
They had me at a field hospital pretty damned fast.
I later went and found the crew on that chopper.
They dropped right out of the sky to come get me.
Former helicopter avionic mechanic here.
All I know is getting that patient onto a table within that Golden Hour heavily increases survival rate.
Crummy to be injured or wounded, but a Godspeed plucking from harm's way is amazing any hour any day.
Glad you are still here
Me, who knows nothing about helicopters: That was slow as heck
After reading the comments: oooooh, I get it now. The more you know.
I was on a helicopter sightseeing flight and thought the thing was going very slow, weird feeling.
It beats fighting the traffic on the roadways
My brother died of a AML induced brain bleed 2 years ago. He was airlifted to Dallas where he pronounced brain dead. That may seem like a failure but I can assure you we wouldn’t have been able to come say goodbye to a breathing body had they not acted so swiftly. Those pilots professionalism and skills gave my family closure, and I will forever be grateful.
Because of them, I’m now considering applying for an air ambulance position at my local airport once I graduate from flight school in a few months, though for jets since I’m a fixed wing pilot.
Wow such rapid and clean descent. Well done pilot. We need to improve our healthcare system rapidly.
- Airplane pilot: Stabilized approach, minimums
- Helicopter pilot:
Bush pilots be like: I want to be a helicopter pilot, without the helicopter expenses.
@@greatcanadianmoose3965 A lot of those Pipers could probably land on a helipad anyway haha
@@RhodokTribesman And with a stiff headwind.... I mean world record take off is under 3 feet from I think a modified cub, and landing is under 6.... maybe not world record, but damn near close.
@@greatcanadianmoose3965 ,
I have seen video of both 0 feet takeoff and 0 feet landings in competitions. Point into relatively fast wind, pull chocks, up you go. Point into relatively fast wind, match thrust to hold over landing spot, reduce power, drop down while moving backwards. Obviously not something to be done for normal flying, but it shows off the capabilities of both the competition bush STOL aircraft and competition bush pilot.
Our H-47s and H-53s typically use the same ILS approaches as our C-135s, C-130s, C-17s, C-5s, and KC-10s use. Land on runway, wheel taxi to parking spots. The skid equipped helicopters hover taxi over the same route to parking spots. Our ambulances go out to the helicopter to take on patients and drive them the short distance to the hospital. It is somewhat odd, seeing how during airshows the same helicopters demonstrate combat evacuation/extraction landings and takeoffs into and out of small spaces of the airfield.
I love this stuff. Piloting a helicopter is already cool as hell but flying and saving lives at the same time takes it to another level. Big respect for these guys.
This is one of the best/nicest/most-heartfelt comment sections
All I was going to say was “wow they went from hi to low really fast!!”
Could tell this was the UK immediately. I feel very lucky to live in Scotland, the only part of the UK to have a fully government funded air ambulance service, including 2 fixed wing and 2 helicopters, plus a Charity Air Ambulance with 2 helicopters. I’ve transferred pt’s having heart attacks from the helipad straight to the Cath lab that by road would have taken hours.
The NHS is a wonderful thing and must be protected at all cost. Should we fail to protect it, critical flights such as that shown could bankrupt those most in need.
Not gonna lie I was expecting a J-Hook like a Hummingbird in ARMA 3
Hell yeah, full collective down, 60° bank, right over the treetops with somebody shouting in your ear at 1-6
I was working at a hospital in Baton Rouge, and saw a medi vac helicopter land way hotter than that! I was on the roof, very close to the LZ when it came in. I will never forget that night! Much respect to all of the men and women who are out there right now helping save lives! THANK YOU ALL!
When the helicopter went wubwubwubwub, I felt that in my soul.
When it went wibwibwibwibwib, I was choking back a tear and my breath caught in my throat.
But when its pitch began to climb, I could not help but rise to my feet in a standing ovation. Bravo! Such beautiful expression! The creativity and passion this shows is an inspiration to us all! The raw emotion was so vulnerable. What a wonderful performance!
I had a friend try and slide down the railing of our front steps. My apartment was above a brewery so the stairs went up 3 stories. He fell head first from about 2.5 stories directly onto his head and shoulder on the pavement. I thought I was going to watch a friend die at his side but lifeflight saved his life. He is blind now but still moving and doing great years later!
I love how decelerating descents bring out a helicopter’s blade slap. Make those blades growl nicely.
One of these rides saved my life once. I was bleeding internally after a motorcycle accident. ♥️♥️🤝🤝
Thank goodness for these services 🙌
Coming in HOT! US Navy Corpsman here. Hated these type of inbounds but sure do/did respect the talent and control.
Nothing wrong with a fast descent in a helicopter as long as the forward airspeed is kept up so the helicopter doesn't descend into its own rotor wash! Perfectly executed decent in my book!
*descent
Correct. Also keeping a good rotor speed and torque within limits is crucial.
@@pingpongpung could just need a comma...
'Perfectly executed, decent in my book'
Vortex ring state? I learned that the hard way with my first drone.
Smashed the drone and the iPhone 3 I had taped to it. Good old days..
It's also called 'settle with power', which can have devastating effects on the stability and lift of the helicopter, ultimately resulting in complete loss of lift.
these guys have insane amount of flight hours. He knows his craft very well
Not necessarily.
Slick stick
@@flyboy970 to be considered for air ambulance insurance wont cover any pilot below 2500 hours.
@@stephenhart8981 Is that in the US?
How do you know they are a he?
One of my best friends almost died recently from hitting is head off the pavement while skateboarding at night. Just a patch of sand almost took his life. He had to be life flighted and the doctors said that they either didn't think he would survive or he was going to have severe brain damage. He turned out perfectly fine just a really bad concussion. I've tried so hard to get him to wear a helmet but he doesn't like them for whatever reason. I'm just glad he's still alive if it wasn't for these amazing people who save lives every day my friend wouldn't be here today... So I appreciate you more than words can describe 🙏🏻❤️
Starting EMT School next fall and going into Paramedic school afterwards. Looking to get my critical care and hopping on flight medic job. This vid gets me hyped.
Love the 135. Great descent, no waste of time, sick patient in the back, got to go go.
I think it would be much faster to simply hover at altitude over the helipad and just shove the cargo out. Let the docs and nurses sort it out below. Lol.
Love to see another Allan
My friend is in the Army and pilots a Blackhawk helicopter and transports troops, supplies, and occasionally wounded soldiers. He told me that while it can be thrilling at times to fly, he must keep a calm demeanor and a level head and try to not think too much about whatever he may be transporting even if it is in hot combat zones. Therefore he can focus more on flying and not do anything hat could risk the safety of the crew or passengers. I never really gave it much of a thought until he told me that.
Well he doesn't think about it until he has to hose out the back of the chopper....
Everytime I see an air ambulance all I can think is,"There's always someone having a worse day."
Angels do exist bois and they do fly. Man these men and women are underrated heroes. Thank you for your service !!!
I spent just over a year living next to the helipad in hospital housing. The approach and departure always are steep. CAA regulations dictate minimum height whilst over flying built up areas. Air Ambulances are not that noisy, it was the Sea Kings of RAF Rescue that shook the house and woke you up. Most Air Ambulances cease operations at sunset. The RAF fly 24/7 the first time one came was at 0220, it felt like an earthquake. Once landed it didn't fully shutdown, for two and a half hours it sat there with an engine screaming away. It lifted and returned within an hour, we had no sleep that night.
wow cool! I wonder if the engines/exhaust or the rotors generated most of the noise...
Two hours of engine rolling on the ground? Impossible.
Shit, someone was having a very bad day.
Yeah, well, just think about the night the passengers were having...
Sea kings are a very common sight over the Norfolk area. Can defo tell the difference. Hope you are doing well my friend. N&N is a special place!
One of my wife's past clients was helicopter ambulance pilot. Great guy. You guys do great work! 👍😎
Got a ride the hard way in 84, aboard an old H34 radial engine helicopter. Only time I've ever flown. Thanks LASD Air Rescue.
When I was in the Navy we were "voluntold" to be part of a Marine Corp medical evacuation drill. They wrapped and splinted and tagged two dozen of us sailors, dropped us onto litters and told us to sit tight. Two minutes later two CH-46s appeared over the tree tops and landed in the field in front of the hangar (this is in Lakehurst NJ, and they landed right where the Hindenburg burned up!), dropped the loading ramps and hauled us in! We thought they were gonna pull up in Hummers or Deuce n 1/4s, but this was awesome! They dusted off and I was on a rack next to the forward port side window so I watched the ground move away from us very quickly. What a rush! Then about 20 mins later after some wheeling and rapid elevation changes they set back down, carried us out, tipped us off the litters unceremoniously. As the rotor wash dissipated and they disappeared into the sky we looked around and realized that they dropped us off somewhere else, and we had no idea where! Obviously they were onboard laughing their asses off at these sailors all bandaged up and wandering around an empty field! We had to find phone and call the base to send vans out to get us. The pilot on my bird was young, and shit hot with the stick and collective, and no doubt loved performing with this big helo! I was impressed, and every time I see our nearby LifeFlight chopper streak in to the hospital zone I can't helo but wonder if he out she was a military trained hotshot.
This footage and all the comments of lives saved by these awesome pilots and their team...❤ 🤍 💙
Every time I hear an air med helicopter toward and away from my house I pray for the patient, families involved, and the air crew/helicopter. God Bless what you do for "us"!!!
I love the sound of those blades going through the air when you’re dissenting smacking off your blood tips sound
These are the people we should idolize.
Not the actors and social media influencers
Here comes the TH-cam algorithm :)
Here we go!.
Lol yep
Channel got lucky
Yeah it has become an inside joke now but honestly why are we so haplessly addicted to TH-cam?!
under 100 subscribers..needed the "hit the button" sequence just before it cuts off before it lands..yet here I am..
Real life pilots flying without any Hollywood special effects. Thank you pilot bros.
You're doing a very noble service, bless you!
You guys are absolute awesome. You are the real heroes. Thank you.
Did his high low recon and dropped the collective to a precise landing. Beautiful. I imagine it was a twin engine being EMS and all
Wow, a 20 degree descending decelerating turn, this pilot must’ve graduated top of his class lol
It still takes balls to do over a hospital is what's surreal about it.
They are normally ex millitary pilots,
I am a former military pilot so I had to bust some balls lol
Why is he doing that turn? Wouldn't it be faster to descend and decelerate while approaching on a straight line? Is it for maintaining the visual with the landing area?
Generally yes, a descending decelerating turn in rotary wing aircraft makes for a faster decent. Or an out of trim descent but that can be stressful on the airframe. He could be turning to land into the wind, or like you said, to keep the LZ in sight during the approach. That could also be the way the approach was designed for noise abatement or obstacle clearance.
The amount of skill these pilots have is incredible
Saw an air ambulance a couple of months back in Switzerland. Some dude crashed a hang glider on the side of a mountain and that was the only way they could get him out. The skill of these pilots are insane.
Sacred Heart hospital in Spokane will commonly have Heuys come screaming in from all the rural parts of the countryside, what a sight that is
Sacred heart? That’s the name of the hospital in the TV show scrubs, isn’t it?
You’re right I’m in Spokane I love to watch them come in
Get this man a god damn raise! Even though he hopefully already makes a month what I do in a year.. lol
But really that is incredible, when people's lives are on the line and every second counts its important and reassuring to have people like this.
“Only” about $80k
EMS pay is depressing but they ain’t in it for the money
@@rangers163316 yah, thats definitely to little.
Hey pilot. Thank you for being a badass and helping save lives.
Brilliant flying.. good.. stomach churning.... But necessary to save life.... Good pilot... thumbs up
So many expert pilots down the comment section.
Really interesting how they can determine the precise angle at which to descend. The whole time I guessed where and when he would turn or land but was wrong every-time. So cool to see the precision It takes to loop that helicopter at the exact place and angle so that it ends up lining up to land on the pad
Yeah, I was looking for the landing pad too! Another commenter mentioned that the pilots will take a look at the wind sock by the helipad so they know the wind direction and approx. speed in order to adjust their approach and land into the wind.
In 1967 I was involved in a high speed car crash, I was driving my 1963 blown Ford Falcon over 200 mph down a suburban cul-de-sac. I lost control of it when I shifted into 2nd gear. The only thing I was wearing was a 1 peice full body with hoodie and mask werewolf costume ..... it was Halloween. The impact of driving thru 3 trailers (mobile home community) was so hard that the suit seemed to have fused with my skin. Anyways a brand new PhallicPredator jet Helicopter flew in to get at me and take me to the hospital. When the Helicopter came I was drenched in something that was oddly wet and sticky - Everyone told me it was sweat but I have my suspicions. As we started moving the Helicopter seemed to be throbbing so hard I could feel it in my insides. Thank you to the Pilot and owner of the PhallicPredator- Mr. Peter Longfellow. Saved my life brother.
Idk why this was recommended but I’m glad it was
Just in case anyone doesn't know much about flying, this in an incredible show of skill. An inexperienced pilot attempting that first maneuver to bleed altitude, or that second maneuver to bleed speed before landing, could easily crash the aircraft and kill everyone on board.
Damn good pilot.
If that is a rapid descent, you have never seen a Rhodesian Chopper pilot flying an Alouette 3 in the 1970’s. Good footage though, thanks for posting.
Were they that crazy? My Dad the worked for the UN in the 70s in that area and tells me stories about the crazy pilots.
@@jimbo1637 Not so much crazy but more fearless and superbly talented. They took the aircraft to the limits and I have to be honest, quite often was scared shitless in the back especially as the G Cars had no doors.
Did you ever fly with Nellis?
@@Spoolbear I assume you are referring to Neil Ellis “Nellis”? No, in Rhodesia I believe he only flew fixed wing and changed to Choppers when he moved South of the border. His various future operations are well documented. Unfortunately I never had the privilege to meet him, even though I was brown not blue 👍
My daughter was flown from one hospital to another because she was born 5 weeks premature and the hospital she was in didn’t have a NICU. The pilot flew in 40mph wind gusts with no issues. I watched him take off with no issues. It was a sight as a new father. She’s good now, she just needed some time to grow (born early because we discovered low fetal movement).
I know it's their job, just like paramedics and nurses etc, but bravo to the people that save our lives. They really are a different breed. I could not do their jobs.
I once witnessed a Life Flight come in at night during a downpour with lighting. It was the fastest ingress of any I had ever seen one do.
As a fixed wing pilot, you helicopter guys have my full respect. My uncle has trained hundreds of pilots and he's been up in a heli a few times and even he's highly impressed. Super amazing. I also work in the medical field so, I appreciate you air ambulance dudes even more. Great job all around.😎🤙
Is a fixed wing easier then heli pilot??? Doesn’t look like it to me
Wow this makes me emotional as my father was a pilot and too see these types of men do this job is amazing the ability and top level of human skill require is phenomenal. Bless these men who do this job.
And we should rethink the job wages of some. These people deserve the wages of realtors and lawyers and if they get paid more thrn good.
The people that do this kind of shit are straight up SUPER heroes.
If the pilot is ex military UK they have probably done this many times before elsewhere at night on nvds in shit weather with numerous hazards and bad people out there. This is positively chilled and 10% on the sweatometer of difficulty.... nicely done.👌
If you want an exciting ride, try landing on the helideck of a small oceangoing vessel a day or two after a hurricane in the Gulf Coast. Good winds, the ships stern pitching up and down and tilting side to side, turbulent wind eddies from the ship superstructure, the pilot synchronizing his landing on the safety net so the chopper doesn't get whacked by the deck all while the ship is going 5 knots and you're not even in the fk'n Navy.
Fog scares the crap out of me, had a near miss one morning in Louisiana, the people in the other helicopter looked pretty upset too.
Thanks uncle Albert
without these helicopters I wouldn't be here because it saved my Moms life back in the 70s when she had a landslide occur while hiking in New Zealand.
If she was in the U.S. the procedure would've been to amputate them and put metal rods in her back. Thank god that didn't happen. She never made a full recovery was paralyzed from the waist down and wheelchair bound but didnt let that stop her dream, she could still have a family.
My baby brother that lives in Frankfurt ,Germany, in June 2021, had a bicycle accident , which left him within an inch of life, and was saved by a patrol policeman and transported via helicopter to the hospital.
He had his rib cage broken, scull severely fractured and swollen, internal bleeding, collar bone broken, multiple cuts and fractures.
He was in medically induced coma for 4 days ,when they told us if he doesn't wake up tomorrow he is probably brain dead and we will unplug him.
Even though he was literary broken in half, he was physically strong and he woke up following morning , spent another 40 days in the hospital , in months to come made almost full recovery and now living normal life.
When I called police department and hospital dispatch team to express my gratitude for saving his life, they said they were doing their job.
I cant stress enough my gratitude and admiration towards all amazing people doing their job and wish them all the best in life and may God bless you!!
I'm 50 and if I could start over, I would just so I could be a pilot of an air ambulance.