Issue 176 | November 2026

Issue 176

The November edition of AirMed&Rescue has a wealth of articles to keep you informed and engaged. We have features that explore the challenges associated with cable snag and entanglement; determine how and why special missions operators choose a new helicopter; look at the risks, regulation, and requirements of temporary helicopter landing sites; and examine the inroads that are being made by the drone industry into the medical sector.

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In this issue

Pilot checking out of window

Searching for solutions

Law enforcement agencies have a need to periodically renew their aviation assets. But what are the requirements that guide their selection of a new type? Ian Harbison and Jon Adams...

Ian Harbison & Jon Adams

Helicopter taking off

Space to land

With no suitable landing spaces, or safe ones, there is always a need for temporary helipads, reports Rob Coppinger

Helicopter parked

Provider profile: Police Scotland Air Support Unit

Oliver Cuenca speaks to David Hodgson, Corporate Communications at Police Scotland, about his organization’s Air Support Unit

Medical drone parked on floor

Fast and glorious: how medical drones are revolutionizing healthcare

From emergency response to routine logistics, drones are beginning to occupy an exciting role within the healthcare aviation ecosystem. Experts share with Lauren Haigh the ways in which UAVs are...

Helicopter flying above snow

Oh, snag!

On a mission that is inherently risky, the extra hazard of a cable snag while performing a hoist rescue has to be avoided. Chris Croot finds out what systems are...

Hayley Hallihan header

Interview: Directing aerial resources to support firefighting

Siân Yates talks to Hayley Hallihan, Aviation Coordinator at the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, and discovers how a career in firefighting leads to tough choices, and how coordination of...

Patient being moved onto fixed wing air ambulance

Industry voice: A regional approach to medical air evacuation in Latin America

Understanding of the structure and the ability to coordinate the various parts of a medical evacuation are what can really make a mission successful, argues Ricardo Real, CEO of Aerocardal

Rescue workers getting into helicopter

Gallery: SAF Hélicoptères and the art of mountain rescue at Courchevel

Roelof-Jan Gort and Björn van der Flier visited the base at Altiport de Courchevel, France, to better understand SAF Hélicoptères’ mountain rescue operations

Roelof-Jan Gort & Bjorn van der Flier