JV7 Today

chicken hawk · Post by **chicken hawk** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 6:06 pm

Anyone know what was happening up near Summer Beaver today? Heard a military rescue flight, Air Ambulance and whatnot up there for most of the day. Hope all is ok.

grimey · Post by **grimey** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:14 pm

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breaki ... 7576c.html

chicken hawk · Post by **chicken hawk** » Tue May 01, 2007 6:22 pm

Thanks. That article doesn't really give a lot of info, but whatever.

giligan · Post by **giligan** » Tue May 01, 2007 9:38 pm

Forgive my ignorance but there's a runway in Summer beaver? I would rather get out of an airplane that is sitting on the ground than jump out in the dark. I would think it be alot safer as well. Is there a problem with the runway there? I know the Herc has landed in Little Grand (2800') in the past.
gil

bobcaygeon · Post by **bobcaygeon** » Tue May 01, 2007 10:22 pm

giligan wrote:Forgive my ignorance but there's a runway in Summer beaver? I would rather get out of an airplane that is sitting on the ground than jump out in the dark. I would think it be alot safer as well. Is there a problem with the runway there? I know the Herc has landed in Little Grand (2800') in the past.
gil

Depends on the WX (you can parachute in pretty shitty wx) and amount of fuel on the HERC. At ZGR they had to circle for hours to get light enough to T/O. They had lots of fuel on cause the wx was shits and they had circled for like 12 hrs already with a fuel stop (or they dumped fuel I can't recall for sure)

Rudy · Post by **Rudy** » Wed May 02, 2007 7:36 am

With all due respect to the injured or sick person in Summer Beaver there has to be a more cost effective way of getting aid to patients in northern Ontario than sending a C-130 and having SAR techs parachute out of it. Oh, and then sending a helicopter to go pick them up.

Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Wed May 02, 2007 7:55 am

Since when did Canadian taxpayers give a sh1t about how their money was spent?

Flight85 · Post by **Flight85** » Wed May 02, 2007 8:06 am

Sending a C-130 in, sending a helicopter in, and then sending skycare in to pick up the choppers slack.

or at least that's what I've been able to piece together.

Maybe I should get into medevacs... get some of my taxpayer money back.

Tubthumper · Post by **Tubthumper** » Wed May 02, 2007 4:45 pm

Since when did Canadian taxpayers give a sh1t about how their money was spent?

....since the Gun Registry, Sponsorship Scandal, and other crap, I've been giving lots of sh1t of how my tax $$ are spent....