on heart that we were truly prepared to supply the royals with the EMS coverage they were expecting.
When the chief pilot returned to Jeddah when he learned that we had gone behind his back to talk to the general. That is, before he learned what the general had told us: J-Base wasn’t the primary hospital. He was as shocked as we were to learn the news. He then made arrangements to do day and night landings at the two hospitals so that he could be current and
I returned to the States after the summer Two weeks later, I received an email from the chief pilot thanking me for pushing for permission to practice landings and Hospital. He told me that the company had arranged an independent outside audit to determine if he was doing a good job. One
him: When was the last time you did day and night landings at the helipads where you might need to take the royals? He was able to report that he’d done it within the past two weeks.
The sentence “But we’ve always done it organization and should be questioned occasionally. If we’d been called to transport the king, we would have gotten it terribly wrong. Taking a head of state to the wrong hospital never looks good on a resume. In Saudi Arabia, doing so could have had consequences too dire to contemplate.
Randy Mains is an author, public speaker, and a CRM/AMRM consultant who works in the helicopter industry after a long career of aviation adventure. He currently serves as chief CRM/AMRM instructor for Oregon Aero.
He may be contacted at:
randym@oregonaero.com
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