That was brilliant video Not many will of seen this done. I believe the ship has to keep up a constant speed because a helicopter cannot hover in one place for long
A few years later we had a genuine medical emergency when well away from land and the helicopter was summoned. One of my friends had a scanner and we were able to listen to the communications between aircraft and ship. The pilot dictated speed and course to enable him to lower a medic onto the deck. The chopper on its way back from another incident and was running low on fuel so had to head off to Oban. We put the casualty ashore at Colonsay where an ambulance and paramedics were waiting. Over the years we had several onboard emergencies including one death but that was the only time a helicopter was involved.
@@schoolshorts That's interesting Tim You were lucky you could hear the communications, So far I have not seen any emergencies on my travels but had a few delayed trains because of them
That was brilliant video Not many will of seen this done. I believe the ship has to keep up a constant speed because a helicopter cannot hover in one place for long
A few years later we had a genuine medical emergency when well away from land and the helicopter was summoned. One of my friends had a scanner and we were able to listen to the communications between aircraft and ship. The pilot dictated speed and course to enable him to lower a medic onto the deck. The chopper on its way back from another incident and was running low on fuel so had to head off to Oban. We put the casualty ashore at Colonsay where an ambulance and paramedics were waiting.
Over the years we had several onboard emergencies including one death but that was the only time a helicopter was involved.
@@schoolshorts That's interesting Tim You were lucky you could hear the communications, So far I have not seen any emergencies on my travels but had a few delayed trains because of them
I missed that day because I didn't go to Largs, I went to Ayr instead.