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Some areas have more than one helicopter.
The Organisation has around 300 volunteers doing different
jobs, The Air ambulance or AA for short collaborates with
other AA services including fundraising projects.
On rare occasions the helicopter will operate outside the
boarder of the two counties in another region if requested.
The helicopter has a searchlight on the nose on the
helicopter; the crew carries night-sight goggles.
The flight crew is made up of two pilots (one will operate as a
navigator) and two paramedics as well as a doctor. The crew
are specifically trained to fly, and classified as HEMS
(Helicopter Emergency Medical Services)
Helicopters are very difficult to fly so this requires the Pilot to
undergo many hours of training; some Air Ambulance pilots
are ex-military.
The air ambulance is only able to land on flat or near flat solid
ground where there is no obstructions such as trees, street
lights and telegraph polls, AA have landed in fields, beeches,
motor ways and recreational playing fields, this can sometimes
mean that the patient may have to be carried via a stretcher or
transported via a road ambulance to the Air ambulance.
When the AA get to the hospital it often lands on a helipad but
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