Health & Medicine

Saving Lives

The scenario — a severely injured accident victim needs urgent medical care. They must be rushed to a trauma center 40 miles away or they’ll perish. Yet the surface roads and highways are clogged with rush hour traffic. The solution? A medical evacuation flight.

Medevac flights provide rapid air transportation and advanced medical care for critically injured and ill patients in life-threatening situations. Crews are composed of highly experienced pilots, flight nurses, and paramedics trained to handle virtually any medical emergency and to conduct rescues in any type of terrain.

In many cases, the swift availability of a medevac will literally save the day.

Volunteer Patient Transport

Many cancer and burn patients, including adults and children, need months of long-term care. In many cases, these patients need highly specialized or experimental care that is available only from major urban medical centers.

Yet, as is often the case, these patients have no way to reach the care they need because the airlines don’t serve their local communities, or they can’t afford the costs involved.

General Aviation (GA) pilots, working through dozens of charitable organizations, volunteer their time, money, and airplanes to fly these patients and families between their homes and the medical care facilities. Other volunteers help complete the trip by providing ground transportation on each end of the flight.

Volunteer Organ Transport

At any given time, thousands of patients are waiting for organ transplants. Many of these organs must travel to the recipient located hundreds of miles away.

The same General Aviation (GA) pilots who fly patients also volunteer their time, money, and airplanes to fly these gifts of life to patients in need. They’ll also fly critical blood products, anti-venoms, and medicines to hospitals and medical centers throughout the United States.

Flying Doctors

Many outlying rural communities lack routine access to health care. As a result, many doctors and nurses in the United States and the world will fly to these towns and communities. Once onsite, they’ll provide medical exams, inoculations, and training to local practitioners.

These flying doctors, like many other pilots, use General Aviation (GA) to help improve the world and the lives of their fellow human beings.