Know Your Aircraft
This term describes the bending force applied to the main rotor mast and may trigger a cockpit warning when limits are exceeded.
What is mast moment?
This weather phenomenon can dramatically reduce visibility near the ground and make an otherwise familiar landing area unusable.
What is fog?
At sea level, standard atmospheric pressure equals this many mmHg.
What is 760 mmHg?
This organization accredits medical transport programs and establishes standards.
What is CAMTS?
When approaching or departing a running helicopter, you should only do so after receiving direction from this crew member.
Who is the pilot?
Unlike the exposed tail rotor on the Bell 429, the H135's tail rotor is enclosed within the vertical fin. This design has this name.
What is a Fenestron?
When the temperature and this value get closer together, the air approaches saturation and the chance of fog or clouds increases.
What is dew point?
As altitude increases and atmospheric pressure decreases, trapped gases expand according to this law.
What is Boyle's Law?
Based on what some of you wore to Safety Day today, this LifeFlight policy may come as brand-new information: Staff attending meetings, trainings, or events are expected to wear this.
What is business casual clothing or appropriate program logo attire?
Loose hats, blankets, sheets, and equipment become especially dangerous around a helicopter because of this hazard.
What is rotor wash?
Pilots enter this universal four-digit transponder “squawk” code to declare a general in-flight emergency.
What is 7700?
When the dew point is below 32°F and the temperature–dew point spread is 5°F or less, you should anticipate this frosty aviation hazard.
What is frost?
As altitude increases, atmospheric pressure does this.
What is decrease?
When a sending facility’s full patient record isn’t available at the time of transfer, the LifeFlight crew must still transport and hand off these two documents.
What are the Transfer Consent/EMTALA form and the patient demographics form?
When exiting the Bell 429 while the rotor blades are turning, crew members should exit at either of these two clock positions.
What are the 3 o’clock and 9 o’clock positions?
With only one D-tank aboard the Bell 429 compared with two aboard the EC135, LifeFlight policy says this tool should be used for every patient transport to ensure adequate oxygen supply.
What is the PACO Tool.
Just this much ice can reduce the lifting power of some aircraft by 50% while increasing drag by about the same amount.
What is half an inch of ice?
An oxygen cylinder's pressure increases when its temperature increases. This relationship is described by this gas law.
What is Gay-Lussac's Law?
Passed in 1970, this federal law was designed to help ensure safe and healthful working conditions.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)?
When working around a LifeFlight aircraft, equipment and other objects should never be lifted higher than this.
What is your head?
The ELT is designed to activate following an impact greater than this velocity.
What is 4.5 feet per second?
Weather minimums for air-medical operations must comply with these one (of two) FAR parts.
What are Parts 91 or 135?
Mercury is used in traditional barometers because it's approximately this many times denser than water.
What is 14?
Just because you land on another hospital’s helipad to tier a patient doesn’t automatically trigger this federal law. But requesting screening or stabilizing treatment for a deteriorating patient can.
What is EMTALA?
When approaching a helicopter on uneven terrain, you should NEVER approach from this side.
What is the uphill side?