EATC

Right now,AECC has no highly infectious
patient transportation capability under its
operational control (OPCON).
Nevertheless, Italy and Spain, as new
member nations of EATC, do have such
capabilities and offered them to be used
on request. Germany and France are developing
such capabilities as well, but further
developments have to be awaited, particularly
in the certification process, before potentially
offering this capability to other
EATC partners.
The EATC has the capability to advance
in all areas of European Air Transport and
especially in the field of Aeromedical Evacuation.With
the accession of new EATC
partner nations and the gathering of additional
AE capacities, the need for functional
work on common concepts and doctrines
has increased.
Besides the already well-established procedures
and excellent performance in the
operational area of controlling European
AE missions,AECC is ready to be more involved
in the development of common
standards for cross-national AE and interoperability.
Nowhere else in Europe are as
many AE specialists from different countries
working together as a team on a daily
basis as in AECC.This may lead to the midterm
aim of a Centre of Excellence for AE
within the EATC.
Service for the patients
AECC has access to a MedEvac fleet that
is capable of managing nearly every emergency
situation all over the world.
In the meantime,some of the aircraft used
by AECC for MedEvac purposes are undergoing
a – more or less – steady changing
process: e.g. the aging C-160 Transall will
be replaced in the future by the A400M,
featuring more range, capacity and velocity.
Other aircrafts like the German Airbus
A310MRTT remain “state of the art” in
Strategic Aeromedical Evacuation and will
stay in service for at least another decade.
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