314 – London Air Ambulance

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Guests: Neil Jeffers, Adam Spink Host: Markus Voelter

Shownoter: Bastian Hundt

Earlier this year I visited the London Air Ambulance, a charity organization that flies two MD-902 helicopters over the UK’s capital. I chatted with their chief pilot Neil Jeffers about the flying and some of the medical aspects. My recorder then joined Neil on a short flight to their hangar at RAF Northolt. There, we met Adam Spink, a NATS air traffic controller at Heathrow, and the three of us chatted about the ATC perspective of flying helicopters (sometimes) in Heathrows’s approach.

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00:02:05.000 Introduction of Neil Jeffers 00:04:35.000 The Helicopters and the History of London Air Ambulance 00:20:40.000 Flying a NOTAR Helicopter 00:31:15.000 The Medical Side 00:52:10.000 Airspace in London 00:57:20.000 Training, Risks and the Crew 01:17:55.000 Flight from Royal London Hospital to RAF Northolt 01:27:10.000 Air Traffic Control in London and a typical Mission with Adam Spink