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.
@robertnagan55728 жыл бұрын
We have one here in Asheville! Always glad to see it,someone is getting the help they need.
@angelblueeyes23395 жыл бұрын
Thank you all for the love and care you gave my angel blue eyed boy Josh. Always in our hearts. 🌷❤🌷Nan XxX ❤🌷❤
@nigelcanning50913 жыл бұрын
Ye are doing a very wonderful job saving lives. Keep at it. Enjoyed the video👍😃.
@kazikian8 жыл бұрын
Another lovely video Geoff! I've never even been to London but thanks to you I know exactly how to get around
@bananakarmarama8 жыл бұрын
Hopefully you'll never have to depend on this particular method getting you anywhere.
@taragragg4007 жыл бұрын
I definately appreciated the firefighter training. Also useful.
@samaviation11868 жыл бұрын
I see this very helicopter take off everyday and fly over my house
@natheniel5 жыл бұрын
Sam Aviation As cool as it is, I wholeheartedly hope it doesn’t need to.
@idot33315 жыл бұрын
@@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-su7gv5 жыл бұрын
Wonderful Medical arrangement
@vincentdeguard47269 жыл бұрын
Time all the big banks/companies/corps/millionaires in London got their hands in their pockets and gets a second helicopter?!
@sarahtorrey73803 жыл бұрын
4
@stevegrover78528 жыл бұрын
please support your local air ambulance
@arnohoofvan98318 жыл бұрын
We have 3 Air Ambulance and they have the right to fly 24/7 thank god here in Holland
@jaspermiedema15207 жыл бұрын
6 actually with 2 as spares and 4 on full-time standby
@paulsengupta9717 жыл бұрын
In one city or in the whole country? Here in the UK there's pretty much one per county.
@paulsengupta9717 жыл бұрын
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
@lindacollings85545 жыл бұрын
Same in Australia
@MrRandy2698 жыл бұрын
yeah :-) all the fund raising paid off .... they have their second helicopter.
@epiccreatorMC6 жыл бұрын
Andy Campbell Cornwall has 2 air ambulance for 500,000 people
@FD-vj6hd4 жыл бұрын
lucas chapman larger area though
@wendyh38914 жыл бұрын
Wonderful thank you 🙏 God Bless the donors ❤️❤️❤️
@leannyly8 жыл бұрын
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!
@paullee55733 жыл бұрын
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
@paullee55733 жыл бұрын
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.
@NeoDerGrose8 жыл бұрын
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.
@Londonistvids8 жыл бұрын
+NeoDerGrose They recently (March 2016) got a second helicopter!
@NeoDerGrose8 жыл бұрын
***** I'm glad to hear that, makes you feel saver when you're in London.
@o0prince8 жыл бұрын
*safer
@cpufreak1017 жыл бұрын
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)
@MrThuggery7 жыл бұрын
How does 25,700 Mi (41,500 ks) sound for one helicopter? (Gippsland Victoria Australia)
@erlenelobo13243 жыл бұрын
The future of aviation worldwide are aviation paramedics, aviation emergency responders and rescue teams, aviation medicine specialist doctors, aviation nurses and aerial firefighters.
@HenrysAdventures5 жыл бұрын
Very interesting!
@MrThuggery7 жыл бұрын
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.
@paulsengupta9717 жыл бұрын
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.
@MrThuggery7 жыл бұрын
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.
@paulsengupta9717 жыл бұрын
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.
@MrThuggery7 жыл бұрын
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
@ce99346 жыл бұрын
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.
@CoalCandyX7 жыл бұрын
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.
@ianrobertson57986 жыл бұрын
not true we have 4 here in London
@brownalfie4 жыл бұрын
@@ianrobertson5798 we have 2 not 4
@robertomodenese20679 жыл бұрын
London's Air Rescue
@littlemixvideo89967 жыл бұрын
Yes you are my best friends
@kasparvg3 жыл бұрын
Oh wow Geoff is here too.
@mohlomphehi7 жыл бұрын
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.
@paullee55733 жыл бұрын
I believe the aircraft you had about 25 years ago for LAAS was G- HEMS a french built Dauphin. Am I correct.
@thedisabledwelshman9266 Жыл бұрын
better than not being funded at all.
@taragragg4007 жыл бұрын
Hard to sleep with that thing taking off and landing. Prepped me well for my next job though.
@ce99346 жыл бұрын
Tara Gragg they don’t fly the helicopter at night because it’s unsafe to land at incidents. They use rapid response cars
@paullee55733 жыл бұрын
You would soon change your tune if it was your wife, daughter, or girlfriend who needed their urgent help.
@abukhalid74474 жыл бұрын
Why is it kept at northholt every night?
@MyUnoriginalUsername8 жыл бұрын
here is a good debate Royal navy search and rescue vs Air ambulance (RAF search and rescue is disbanded ''not active anymore'')
@MrRandy2698 жыл бұрын
+England Ball it's being disbanded because the government, has decided to privatise the service.
@MyUnoriginalUsername8 жыл бұрын
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
@MrRandy2698 жыл бұрын
It won't be long ..... the way the tories are going I'll be doing that at work. I work in the nhs.
@paullee55733 жыл бұрын
When was RNSARS disbanded please? I know it was still operational in 2003.
@RCK-rg4bv3 жыл бұрын
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.
@everydaywrld73066 жыл бұрын
Jubilee line 0:01
@k9boss63gamer37 жыл бұрын
cool
@Hitmansassistant10 жыл бұрын
Why do they 2 firemen when the helicopter lands and takes off?
@Londonistvids10 жыл бұрын
shahzadh37 For safety, in case there is an incident (fire!) when the helicopter takes off or lands!
@havenbradley21868 жыл бұрын
lovem jo
@jayhawkman607 жыл бұрын
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....?
@KwyKz0r7 жыл бұрын
European cities are a lot tighter than most US ones.
@sbegum2467 жыл бұрын
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.
@owendavies37867 жыл бұрын
Helicopters have to follow the river except if they have permission so it might be a government thing
@ce99346 жыл бұрын
+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
@indahooddererste6 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Safe and cctv camera owley by Daniel champion for my safety is for me a way form you
@danielchampion698 Жыл бұрын
Flying around 62ringstend house furt door because off money and shopping ther not being good acting vilot 62ringstend road
@martyntennant37017 жыл бұрын
LAA hems
@TheMegamorge9 жыл бұрын
Holu
@michaelkemp45158 жыл бұрын
best knowed as herms
@paullee55733 жыл бұрын
HEMS not herms
@HabibiGermany2 жыл бұрын
really boring documentation....
@allmyothersubscriptions8 жыл бұрын
The air pollution (smog) on the day you filmed, looks utterly horrendous; similar to Beijing!!!!
@HMSDaring18 жыл бұрын
+Isaac O Thats not smog, that's likely fog. Smog for London isn't that bad, it's visible but not like that.