Issue 74 | March 2016

AMR 74 front cover

In this issue:

RAF and Navy bow out - Military crews hand over UK SAR baton to Bristow

To hook or unhook? Stay on the cable or swim free?

Ready, aim, rescue - Priority1AirRescue's training regimen goes to war

Crew resource management

Interview: Kevin Weller, Chief technical rearcrew, Bristow Helicopters, HM Coastguard Caenarfon SAR

Aircraft Spotlight: Quest Kodiak 100

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In this issue

helicopter hoist rescue water

Should marine rescuers on the hoist stay connected to the cable or swim free?

Rescuers lowered from a helicopter to pick people from the water can stay connected to the hoist cable or swim freely. Femke van Iperen explores how and why each method...
1 Feb 2016
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Femke Van Iperen
End of life repatriation

End of life repatriation flights - ethical challenges for air ambulance providers

Typically, in civilian fixed-wing air ambulance flights, patients are being taken home so that they can be helped to live. Some missions, however, confront operators with ethical rather than medical...
19 Nov 2014
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David Kernek
Nepal mountain path

Helicopter medical evacuations from Everest – too many, and at what cost?

The signals coming from Nepal are that all is not well in the local rescue helicopter industry. If commentators are to be believed, a slew of middlemen are colluding with...
20 Mar 2014
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James Paul Wallis