London's Air Ambulance

[@wilfstor3078]

I remember back in 2011. My family and I were in England for an extended stay. We were walking through hyde park and an air ambulance landed. I knew Toronto had air ambulances but I had never seen one just land in a public park. It was one of the coolest things I had ever seen.

[@robertnagan5572]

We have one here in Asheville! Always glad to see it,someone is getting the help they need.

[@angelblueeyes2339]

Thank you all for the love and care you gave my angel blue eyed boy Josh. Always in our hearts. 🌷❤🌷Nan XxX ❤🌷❤

[@nigelcanning5091]

Ye are doing a very wonderful job saving lives. Keep at it. Enjoyed the video👍😃.

[@kazikian]

Another lovely video Geoff! I've never even been to London but thanks to you I know exactly how to get around

[@bananakarmarama]

Hopefully you'll never have to depend on this particular method getting you anywhere.

[@taragragg400]

I definately appreciated the firefighter training. Also useful.

[@samaviation1186]

I see this very helicopter take off everyday and fly over my house

[@natheniel]

Sam Aviation As cool as it is, I wholeheartedly hope it doesn’t need to.

[@idot3331]

@@natheniel I'm pretty sure the air ambulance does drills constantly. If you see one flying around or landing, there's a good chance there's not actually an emergency, they're just training.

[@ashishkumar-su7gv]

Wonderful Medical arrangement

[@vincentdeguard4726]

Time all the big banks/companies/corps/millionaires in London got their hands in their pockets and gets a second helicopter?!

[@sarahtorrey7380]

4

[@stevegrover7852]

please support your local air ambulance

[@arnohoofvan9831]

We have 3 Air Ambulance and they have the right to fly 24/7 thank god here in Holland

[@jaspermiedema1520]

6 actually with 2 as spares and 4 on full-time standby

[@paulsengupta971]

In one city or in the whole country? Here in the UK there's pretty much one per county.

[@paulsengupta971]

Just added them up, there are 40 in the UK. Plus a couple of King Airs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_ambulances_in_the_United_Kingdom

[@lindacollings8554]

Same in Australia

[@MrRandy269]

yeah :-) all the fund raising paid off .... they have their second helicopter.

[@epiccreatorMC]

Andy Campbell Cornwall has 2 air ambulance for 500,000 people

[@FD-vj6hd]

lucas chapman larger area though

[@wendyh3891]

Wonderful thank you 🙏 God Bless the donors ❤️❤️❤️

[@leannyly]

To further the point about being entirely run on donations; I don't know what LAA say, but we say we'd rather it be that way, because look what the government did to the police helicopters! If air ambulances were government funded, they'd definitely make cuts, putting lives at risk. As charities, we decide what to do with the money as it's ours, and we can put it to best use. Only, of course, thanks to the generous public!

[@paullee5573]

We had exactly the same with the RNLI years ago. Givernment wanted to step in and take over. Two ballots were taken , one amongst members and the other amongst those at the sharp end, the guys and girls who give up tgeir time, voluntarily, putting their lives at risk on every shout. The members ballot was overwhelmingly in favour of continuing as we are. But the crews, with the exception of one woman out of the entire active front end personnel, voted to a man to resign with immediate effect if the government took over. Needless to say we remain a charitable institution, saving lives many times per day. And not just around the coast. Our coverage of inland waterways continuse to expand. Thus enabling us to make your water- sports

[@paullee5573]

water-sports, both more enjoyable, and, equally importantly, safer. No matter what time of day or night, we are on standby to help in an emergency. P.S. Many people are unaware of how to summon help from RNLI in an emergency. Follow this course of action:- 1) Dial 999 2) Ask Emergency services for COASTGUARD 3) Give coastguard operator the location and nature of the emergency, and a contact phone number if available 4) Follow the coastguards instructions carefully. Remember, lives may well depend on you calling for help.

[@NeoDerGrose]

Did I get that right, all of London is just served by one single helicopter? I'd consider that to be really bad on German standard.

[@Londonistvids]

+NeoDerGrose They recently (March 2016) got a second helicopter!

[@NeoDerGrose]

***** I'm glad to hear that, makes you feel saver when you're in London.

[@o0prince]

*safer

[@cpufreak101]

NeoDerGrose could be worse, all of western New York (where I live btw) is a size of 15,107 sq mi (39,127 km2), and it's served by a single helicopter (it's called mercy flight by the way)

[@MrThuggery]

How does 25,700 Mi (41,500 ks) sound for one helicopter? (Gippsland Victoria Australia)

[@erlenelobo1324]

The future of aviation worldwide are aviation paramedics, aviation emergency responders and rescue teams, aviation medicine specialist doctors, aviation nurses and aerial firefighters.

[@HenrysAdventures]

Very interesting!

[@MrThuggery]

Interesting why they use a Doctor? In Victoria Aus we have MICA Paramedics, a system started in 1971 by a cardiologist where highly trained paramedics would go out with the Doctor on the Helicopter/s with a pilot and crew member and do a job. After some time the Doctor realised the paramedics could be trained up to do what the doctors could do and hence the MICA Paramedic was born! This allowed the Doctors to concentrate their collective talents in the Hospital where they belong! So there you go, no Doctor required as the paramedic is trained to do anything (Pretty much) that any Doctor can do out in the field. The success rate is one of the best globally.

[@paulsengupta971]

It was realised some years ago that the best chance of survival was if you could get an actual surgical team to the scene quickly, rather than "just" paramedics. The driver behind this was a chap called Tony Bleetman. He was a doctor in the Israeli army, and saw what a difference having doctors who could operate at the "front line" could make.

[@MrThuggery]

That's the point mate, you don't need a surgical team on a bloody helicopter or anywhere apart from the hospital with all the definitive care, equipment and personnel available. Anything more than a highly trained Paramedic/s is a waste of time and money...and sometimes space.

[@paulsengupta971]

No it isn't. If you want more information, contact Dr Bleetman (Google him) and he can give you more information and maybe even some statistics. We used to have the system here where paramedics were sent to the scene to stabilise the patient, then get them to the hospital ASAP. It was found that getting surgical teams out to the scene saves more lives.

[@MrThuggery]

Check out this doco and you will see what I mean...One of your surgeons travelling the worlds best trauma centres and wonders why they are so good? Extreme A&E First Episode in in Melbourne Australia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_A%26E

[@ce9934]

As the video says, it’s about the doctor TAKING the emergency department to the patient - they can do open heart surgery and provide general anaesthetic at the scene of the accident, which typically means the patient will actually make it to the major trauma centre alive. Without the doctor, many drugs couldn’t be used and the chances of survival was drop hugely.

[@CoalCandyX]

One Heli for whole London? Crazy! Stockholm having not even 2 million inhabits has two, and a third one in the nearby city of Uppsala.

[@ianrobertson5798]

not true we have 4 here in London

[@brownalfie]

@@ianrobertson5798 we have 2 not 4

[@robertomodenese2067]

London's Air Rescue

[@littlemixvideo8996]

Yes you are my best friends

[@kasparvg]

Oh wow Geoff is here too.

[@mohlomphehi]

They use the Oxylog 2000...That's interesting, the HEMS from my service here in South Africa uses a Hamilton T1. Nice set-up nonetheless, its sad that the service is funded by charity.

[@paullee5573]

I believe the aircraft you had about 25 years ago for LAAS was G- HEMS a french built Dauphin. Am I correct.

[@thedisabledwelshman9266]

better than not being funded at all.

[@taragragg400]

Hard to sleep with that thing taking off and landing. Prepped me well for my next job though.

[@ce9934]

Tara Gragg they don’t fly the helicopter at night because it’s unsafe to land at incidents. They use rapid response cars

[@paullee5573]

You would soon change your tune if it was your wife, daughter, or girlfriend who needed their urgent help.

[@abukhalid7447]

Why is it kept at northholt every night?

[@MyUnoriginalUsername]

here is a good debate Royal navy search and rescue vs Air ambulance (RAF search and rescue is disbanded ''not active anymore'')

[@MrRandy269]

+England Ball it's being disbanded because the government, has decided to privatise the service.

[@MyUnoriginalUsername]

Andy Campbell Hah imagine ''My mate is stuck under a boulder he is unconscious'' 1. OK then sir please read out you're credit card number 2.Sorry i have no money on me 3. I'm sorry sir we can not help you 4: FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU

[@MrRandy269]

It won't be long ..... the way the tories are going I'll be doing that at work. I work in the nhs.

[@paullee5573]

When was RNSARS disbanded please? I know it was still operational in 2003.

[@RCK-rg4bv]

If Northolt is the air base why can't there be more fuelling points made as these aircraft need need more refuelling than fixed wing aircraft. The helicopter can be miles away from its home base when running low on fuel during an emergency.

[@everydaywrld7306]

Jubilee line 0:01

[@k9boss63gamer3]

cool

[@Hitmansassistant]

Why do they 2 firemen when the helicopter lands and takes off?

[@Londonistvids]

shahzadh37 For safety, in case there is an incident (fire!) when the helicopter takes off or lands!

[@havenbradley2186]

lovem jo

[@jayhawkman60]

I wonder what prevents them from flying at night, I know here in the states most life flights will fly at night... Lack of training? not enough money for the ratings....?

[@KwyKz0r]

European cities are a lot tighter than most US ones.

[@sbegum246]

jayhawkman60 urban, built up area. Thousands of homes in its surrounding. Imagine the noise of taking off and landing every hour at night. Also it's hard to land in the dark especially in a built up city, it's risky and dangerous.

[@owendavies3786]

Helicopters have to follow the river except if they have permission so it might be a government thing

[@ce9934]

+DO 01 that’s for single engine helicopters only. Dual engines can fly anywhere. They can’t fly at night because landing is unsafe in tight areas

[@indahooddererste]

helicopter usually fly according to VFR (visual flight rules) if u dont see something u arent aloud to fly. there are some helicopter equipped with nightvision googles but still its dangerous because your field of view gets very narrow and in an area like london which has many lights at night it would hurt your eyes.

[@danielchampion698]

Safe and cctv camera owley by Daniel champion for my safety is for me a way form you

[@danielchampion698]

Flying around 62ringstend house furt door because off money and shopping ther not being good acting vilot 62ringstend road

[@martyntennant3701]

LAA hems

[@TheMegamorge]

Holu

[@michaelkemp4515]

best knowed as herms

[@paullee5573]

HEMS not herms

[@HabibiGermany]

really boring documentation....

[@allmyothersubscriptions]

The air pollution (smog) on the day you filmed, looks utterly horrendous; similar to Beijing!!!!

[@HMSDaring1]

+Isaac O Thats not smog, that's likely fog. Smog for London isn't that bad, it's visible but not like that.

[@Meerkat040]

Yep thats fog.

[@Fusion_947]

Its fog from miserable artic weather that we get

[@Yasin_2312]

London is very foggy in the winters