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HELICOPTER MEDICAL FLIGHT CREW COURSE 

For those interested in becoming medical crew members for Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS), Search and Rescue (SAR) or inter-hospital rotary wing transport, and for anyone who wants to know more about dealing with ill and injured passengers on board helicopter air ambulances, and about being part of the flight crew team.


This educational package consists of either a three days of intensive small-group teaching and practical workshops undertaken at an airport or venue near London in the UK or as three short days of online webinars plus one day of face to face practical instruction in the classroom and in the helicopter (arranged at mutual convenience and in accordance with Covid19 restrictions).


Successful students will be prepared to the basic standard defined by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) in its published recommendations for helicopter air ambulance operations: Annex V, Part SPA, Subpart J (HEMS.100 to 155).

HMFC Course Syllabus

  • Introduction to helicopter patient transport
  • Becoming crew
  • Airmanship
  • Crew Resource Management (teamworking)
  • Human Factors (error and mishap)
  • Safety in and around helicopters
  • Communications
  • Radio use and operation
  • Helicopter principles of flight
  • Helicopter emergencies
  • Medical emergencies in flight
  • Basic maps and charts
  • Basic navigation
  • Landing site selection
  • Marshalling
  • Ground handling
  • Lifting and loading
  • [Practical Flight Experience] Optional
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NEXT HMFC COURSE

April 2025 (Dates to be confirmed in January 2025)

Venue: either Thruxton or North Weald airfields, UK

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Contact us for more details

Helicopter Medical Flight Crew course

 If you have specific questions that are not answered here or in the FAQs page, contact the Course Director at CCAT.aeromedical@gmail.com

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