Talk:North West Air Ambulance

Major Trauma Centre now Royal Preston Hospital
I'm afraid that the only reference I've got for this is from an internal staff communication (the "Team Brief"), so I'm not making the change. However, RPH has now been designated the Major Trauma Centre for Lancashire and South Cumbria. This means that the caption saying "Most incidents handled by the North West Air Ambulance in the Cumbrian Lake District use Furness General Hospital as a primary hospital" is now incorrect, as they are going to RPH as a preference. If anyone can find a public reference for this or is brave enough to make the change, please do so. --Haggis (talk) 16:46, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Nonsense: "no location in the North West of England is more than ten minutes flying time from one of the Air Ambulances"
The statement "no location in the North West of England is more than ten minutes flying time from one of the Air Ambulances" is clearly nonsense. The base that covers Cumbria is at Royal Preston Hospital. The distance to a random location in Cumbria, say Egremont, is 58 miles. At 150 mph this distance would take 58/150 X 60 minutes = 23 minutes. 10 minutes flying time, at 150 mph, is 25 miles, which is about the distance from the base of this helicopter to the southern edge of Cumbria.

I think this stems from a misunderstanding of the website for this service, which states that "we’re never further than 10 minutes to the nearest hospital in the region". It then goes on to qualify this by talking about the benefit of taking a patient to a major trauma centre. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 08:22, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Confusion about night flying
One of the sentences in the article says "...fly during daylight hours 365 days a year. The fleet aircraft can operate under instrument flight rules (IFR), so fly in all weather conditions, day and night" - I think this should be clarified to say whether they do fly at night or not; at the moment it's not clear Ccw34 (talk) 00:20, 26 January 2020 (UTC)