Air Ambulance

[Lrjtcaptain]

Does anyone know anything about the Air ambulance market? Just doing a little research on 135 and air ambulance markets. How does one swallow up a market in air ambulance, organ retrevals, patient transport etc...... Im always looking for something to do or try. Not saying im gonna go buy a learjet and do it, but always looking for something differnt.

 

[danmark2002]

done it for 18 month it gets old fast and only around 250 hours a year. Not a good timebuilder. Nurses are mostly females so that should give you a hint about gosip

 

[Hawker rider]

At this moment it is supposedly the slow time. Well we are doing it with Lear20's and are averaging about 80 hrs a month per airplane. We've had quite a bit of 8-10 hour flight days with multiple trips.
Go everywhere from Alaska to latin america. We know most of the time where we are going the next day. Not very much organtransplants, only every now and then.

I must say from what I hear from the flightnurses a lot of companies are going out of business but the ones that stay are only getting stronger and busier. Some companies that don't fly very much, don't look hard enough at brokers, there are plenty out there.

Not too hard to stay out of trouble with those flightnurses though...they are all a special kind of woman who can keep on the road for a while, the word "butch" comes to mind.

But the previous poster was right. There is a lot of gossip going on, and it is a world within an already small aviation world

 

[danmark2002]

air ambulance

I guess it all depends on what kind of plane you fly. I was in the kingair and there is a limit to speed and distance there. Most trips were in CA and AZ but with the lear it is a different story.

 

[414Flyer]

One thing about air ambulance, at least it is steady work.

But often odd hours are part of the work. And I end up flying into reservation airstrips, often in the middle of the night, and the strips are not quite the best in the world.

I do it in 414s.. Some air ambulance jobs are pretty cushy, and some are not that great.

THere is a lot of short haul air ambulance in the southwest due to indian health service. The smaller facilities are often full, or do not have the equipment for some patients, so some are sent to ABQ, PHX, TUS,..

 

[PilotoHalcon]

Hello, all, Any opening in air ambulance services in the near future?
thanks, j

 

[414Flyer]

I imagine we might...but you might not want it.

 

[PilotoHalcon]

LOL. Try me.
j

 

[414Flyer]

okay..I will just lay it out without commentary and you can decide.

30k, 12on/2off (might change a little), no benefits of any kind, C-414, living in far western NM near the reservations (GUP),

 

[PilotoHalcon]

I may have been a bit hasty.
Thanks,
j