One team, one job
RCC-Münster received 809 alarms in 2022, of which 597 were false. That was an increase of 6.2% over 2021. A total of 311 SAR missions were flown by H145 LUH SAR from the 7th Squadron THR30 including 104 missions by SAR-Command/Detachment Nörvenich (SAR41), 64 by SAR-Command/Detachment Holzdorf (SAR87), and 135 by SAR-Command/Detachment Niederstetten (SAR63). Lt. Col. André, head of RCC-Münster, praises the professionalism and flexibility of the search and rescue pilots. “Like every military pilot, the SAR pilots work at the highest level in an absolutely professional manner,” he says. “The cooperation is exceptionally good, and we are proud of the joint accomplishment of tasks. SAR: We are there always!”
Grateful and challenging
Florian describes some of the more challenging missions. “All missions during night and bad weather are challenging because we can fly when the civil HEMS are not allowed to fly anymore. During the Ahr-Tal flooding we rescued more than 100 people off roofs, balconies, out of windows, and from trees. It was one week of flying all the time and we only went back for refueling, and then straight back to the area to continue the operations. We did that with three helicopters from our squadron. We had the SAR41 from Nörvenich, the SAR63 from Niederstetten plus one additional helicopter. It was on this specific day when our mission was to assist firefighters for hoist training when we were called back by the tower to pick up another medic to go to Cologne to refuel and then go to the Ahr-Tal for the rescue missions. There were difficult hoist missions due to small windows sometimes, but the people we rescued were very happy and you got a real good feeling after a successful rescue. I also had two missions with little babies for heart transplantation. It was a night mission with bad weather and it was very questionable to do, or not to do, the mission. It was a mission from Nörvenich to the Department of Cardiology at the University Hospital in Giessen. Afterwards, we figured out that they both survived. It was with our new helicopter. It was a pain in the ass to fly with the Huey with bad weather without any support from the helicopter, but with the new helicopter it is okay. You can do much more than with the Huey. It was the Volkswagen Beetle of the 1960s and now we drive the Mercedes S-Class!”
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