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> Would they take off if medevac flight - there was probably some urgency.
by gpm 2mo ago
> Would they take off if
medevac flight - there was probably some urgency.
- SoftTalker 2mo agoMaybe. Urgency should not trump safety. A delay in transport is not worse than a dead patient, dead medics and flight crew, and loss of an aircraft. And I am happy to be corrected but as I understand it, in the rural west more medical transport than you might think is by air. Distances are large, and population is sparse. You can cover more area with the same number of medics using a few airplanes instead of ground ambulances. So not all air ambulance service is critically urgent, unlike what we are used to in more populated areas.
- rbanffy 2mo agoThe losses were higher than if they hadn’t flown that night. But, then, they didn’t know GPS would be down when they were midway through the flight.
- sokoloff 2mo agoThey certainly should have known. The information about GPS jamming appeared as a NOTAM in their Foreflight (electronic flight bag application) briefing, which 14 CFR § 91.103 requires them to review before the flight. We can't be sure whether or not they read the briefing, but the NTSB preliminary makes clear that they at least downloaded it to their EFB app.
- inemesitaffia 2mo agoWe also know that of they wanted GPS on until they landed they could have got it.