some good flying

[bikie]

Pretty good flying by the air ambulance in my home town on Tuesday.Put it down on the high street. It was also blowing a gail here which wouldn't have helped.

 

[Wigsie]

How much are the apartments above pound stretcher going for?

 

[longers]

That is good flying

Hope the person they were picking up is ok.

 

[Fnaar]

All the folks with cameras in the second pic make it look like some kind of act or worship...
Must have been serious, hope whoever it was is ok

 

[bikie]

a 91 year old man was hit by a van on the corner, I hear he is doing o.k.

 

[swee'pea99]

That is good flying

Hope the person they were picking up is ok.

The one that always does my head in is when they're out at sea, picking people up from a boat or a rig or something, in a force 8 gale, and they're 'hovering' perfectly in position - which of course means they're actually flying into the wind at about 63 MPH....but so precisely that they stay exactly where they need to be. It's one of those things that makes you want to just take your hat off and applaud.

 

[Mr Pig]

That's amazing but I'm surprised they were allowed to do it! One false move and they could've killed a lot of people.

 

[longers]

[quote name='swee'pea99']The one that always does my head in is when they're out at sea, picking people up from a boat or a rig or something, in a force 8 gale, and they're 'hovering' perfectly in position - which of course means they're actually flying into the wind at about 63 MPH....but so precisely that they stay exactly where they need to be. It's one of those things that makes you want to just take your hat off and applaud.[/QUOTE]

Yep, and the long line rescues they do in the mountains battling updrafts from the faces they're trying to dangle a bloke on a very long wire very precisely against.

Glad the bloke is "ok".

 

[Globalti]

Where's the van that hit the old bloke? Is that it with Ambulance written on the front?

 

[2Loose]

Cracking photos, just goes to show how determined to help our emergency services are.

 

[Speck]

How much are the apartments above pound stretcher going for?

A pound

 

[bikie]

It's not known whether he fell on the curb and hit the van as he fell or a van hit him.

Video of the take off on bbc news

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8246281.stm

 

[Arch]

Very skilled - but then you don't get to pilot one of those whithout being a pretty good pilot, like ex-military (helicopters being so much harder to fly even than fixed wings 'planes), and when you think about the size of helipads on rigs/ships etc, I don't suppose the mini roundabout was so much smaller...

The thing that gets me, seeing those helicopter rescue shoes on telly, is when they are trying to land on a steep mountainside, and having to watch the rotors against the slope of the hill above, and sometimes then have to hold it balanced on one wheel/skid while the medics get out, because the ledge they've landed on is so small...

 

[Mr Pig]

Video of the take off on bbc news

Wow...

 

[mr Mag00]

cool as.......

i have been at 2 incidents where these guys ahve arrived and i take my hat off everytime, excellent service!