waypoint airmed and rescue 2012 airshow | conference | exhibition - click here for full details

Pilots

Pilots

Flt Lt Wales to head to Falklands

Tags:

British royal pilot Flt Lt Wales, as Prince William is known in the UK Royal Air Force, is to be posted to the Falkland Islands for six weeks from next February on a routine deployment as a search and rescue co-pilot, according to an announcement by the Ministry of Defence.

NEMSPA unveils med pilots’ credo

Tags:

The US National EMS Pilots Association (NEMSPA) unveiled its ‘Professional Air Medical Pilots Credo’ at the Air Medical Transport Conference. The Association said the credo was created in direct response to the National Transportation Safety Board’s Top-10 ‘Most Wanted List’ released on 23 June 2011.

Tail rotor shreds phone line

Tags:

Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) has said it will not be conducting any further investigation into an incident that involved a BC Air Ambulance helicopter clipping a telephone line in Pitt Meadows.

NEMSPA gathering NPRM feedback

Tags:

The US National Emergency Medical Services Pilots Association (NEMSPA) is gathering feedback from helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) pilots on proposed regulations that it says could be the most far-reaching rules to date for the US air medical industry.

Prince William fully operational SAR pilot

Tags:

Flight Lieutenant Wales, as Prince William is known in the UK Royal Air Force (RAF), has graduated from his search and rescue (SAR) training course at RAF Valley in Anglesey, Wales. He has now joined C Flight of Number 22 Squadron, remaining at RAF Valley as a fully qualified, fully operational SAR pilot flying the Sea King helicopter.