Timeline for What priority if any is given to Emergency Services in flight clearance?
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| Jan 28, 2017 at 21:59 | comment | added | Jan Hudec | @CGCampbell, note that even regular flights when a passenger becomes ill usually don't declare “emergency” but there is a separate “medical emergency” for the purpose. Because such flights, and medevac ones, need priority, but don't need any other special handling that is normally associated with emergency. Full emergency is normally only used when pilot becomes ill, because then it affects ability of the remaining pilot to handle the plane due to the increased workload. | |
| Jan 26, 2017 at 14:18 | vote | accept | BZN_DBer | ||
| Jan 26, 2017 at 2:54 | comment | added | J W | @CGCampbell Yes, that is correct. But it is worth noting that a patient need not be aboard to warrant the callsign and accompanying urgency. The callsign is also for use whilst enroute to pick up a patient. I do not, however, use the callsign on an empty return flight after dropping off a patient. | |
| Jan 26, 2017 at 2:44 | comment | added | CGCampbell | So a Medevac flight with a patient on-board is given priority handling when possible, but is not, itself, an emergent flight. A Medevac flight, where a crew member has an emergency as well, might. Right? | |
| Jan 26, 2017 at 1:24 | history | edited | J W | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 25, 2017 at 19:34 | comment | added | reirab | @ChrisW Pan-Pan (or even Mayday) is more likely to be used by non-emergency-services flights (i.e. normal airline flights, normal GA flights, etc.) when there's a medical emergency. It's kind of assumed that a Medevac flight has a medical emergency... otherwise they wouldn't be using the callsign "Medevac" in the first place. | |
| Jan 25, 2017 at 17:59 | comment | added | J W | @ChrisW Declaring pan-pan would be an option for communicating an urgency situation. However, that option seems best reserved for use in situations outside of our normal sphere of operations, but would certainly be appropriate for a non-medevac flight to use in the case of medical emergency. More importantly for us, our ops manual does not direct us to use that phraseology. | |
| Jan 25, 2017 at 17:41 | comment | added | ChrisW | Apologies for this naive question, but do airplanes not declare Pan-pan (urgency) if they have a seriously-ill passenger? | |
| Jan 25, 2017 at 13:42 | comment | added | J W | @jwenting These are usually small feeder cargo aircraft that I have in mind. | |
| Jan 25, 2017 at 12:07 | comment | added | jwenting | can imagine why a large cargo aircraft would get priority over a non-critical medical flight. A 5 minute delay on getting it out of its parking spot can cause more delays along the line as someone else may already be waiting to park there, causing queues on the taxiways. | |
| Jan 25, 2017 at 2:36 | history | edited | J W | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 24, 2017 at 20:06 | history | answered | J W | CC BY-SA 3.0 |