Priority Medivacs

[PopnChipper]

What makes a flight a priority medivac? Is it having a patient on board that requires immediate medical attention? Is it simply having the equipment on board and being able to call yourself (insert flight number)medivac?

I came in today, in front of a plane calling themselves a medivac, got vectored all over hells half acre for a runway that made little to no sense, landed, taxied to the same apron as the "medivac" to find no ambulance waiting with lights flashing. 2 people were walking out to the plane, I assume nurses, board it, and watched the plane depart again without even shutting its engines down.

Now, I know very little about these types of operartion, but it seems to me that they shouldn't be claiming priority status if there are no patients on board, and this was no organ transfer either, as there is no hospital at that particular flights destination.

Thoughts, reasons, and intelligent opinions welcome.

[mellow_pilot]

Perhaps a patient capable of walking, or picking up urgently needed docs/nurses/paramedics to transport them to a patient elsewhere who couldn't be moved.

All sorts of possibilities come to mind.

[arsenal]

If we are on the way to pick up a patient we will usually use 'medevac' status.

To me this sounds like they were picking up nurses to respond to a patient somewhere else, which could require them to do a quick turn with the engines running.

[niko]

Which province are we talking about? What are they transporting? Organ? Patient? Is it a code red?

Please be more specific.

[altiplano]

C'mon - we just had this thread...

http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopi ... ht=medevac

[ski_bum]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

[pilotbzh]

Is use to fly Medevac, the only time we called "Medevac" was when we had a code 4(Ontario), I remember once out of the island after a normal drop off for a patient on cancer treatment, we were heading north in the yyz bussy approach, when we got a call from the back, priority 1 were going to North Bay... a guy got crushed with boxes in a warehouse, we called Toronto with medevac priority and a request direct YYB we got it, controller mover flights away from us, we got there.....waited for the patient and got him to yyz he lived to talked about it, don't know if it's because of us but if you need priority request it if you don't........please don't.