Air Rescue Palatinate

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Air Rescue Palatinate
D-HFOG / D-HFVP

D-HFVP as the Palatinate Air Rescue on landing at the Mainz University Medical Center
D-HFVP as the Palatinate Air Rescue on landing at the Mainz University Medical Center

Air rescue center data
Operator: Johanniter Air Rescue / Heli-Flight
Helicopter type: Eurocopter AS 365 N3
Installation: October 22, 2018
Location: Sembach air rescue center
Particularities: Intensive care transport helicopter
Coordinates: 49 ° 18 '8.3 "  N , 7 ° 30' 54"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 18 '8.3 "  N , 7 ° 30' 54"  E
Height: 1052 ft
crew
Pilot: Helicopter flight
Doctor: West Palatinate Clinic

Air Rescue Pfalz was the nickname of an intensive care transport helicopter of the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe stationed in Sembach . This could be used for secondary operations, but it could also be requested from rescue control centers for primary operations if required . The responsible control center for primary operations was the ILS Kaiserslautern and the JASI Mainz was responsible for the secondary operations.

history

In a letter dated October 19, 2018, Johanniter Luftrettung (JLR) informed the responsible Ministry of the Interior and Sports of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate (MdI RLP) about the upcoming stationing of a transport helicopter in Sembach and the possibility of subsidiary use in the rescue service . On Monday, October 22nd, 2018, a JLR helicopter was then used for the interhospital transfer (IHT) , i.e. for intra-hospital transports between the hospitals of the West Palatinate Clinic (WKK) , initially on the former US airfield in Sembach in the community of Enkenbach -Alsenborn stationed in the Kaiserslautern district . A one-year trial run until September 30, 2019 was planned. A later relocation to Imsweiler in the community of Rockenhausen in the Donnersbergkreis was already in the planning stage but was no longer implemented. The new helicopter for the West Palatinate was presented to the public on October 19, 2018 in the presence of representatives from politics and administration; Print media, radio and television reported on this on a daily basis. The citizens' initiative Christoph Kaiser had been calling for a helicopter for the West Palatinate since 2011. On October 22, 2018, Air Rescue Palatinate went into operation without being integrated into the public rescue service system. If an interhospital transfer is not financed by the health insurance company but by the clinic itself, the ITH is not subject to the State Rescue Service Act . The WKK has its own needs of around 5 flights a year. The majority of the missions were flown as an emergency doctor delivery in the region around Kaiserslautern (in the ten weeks in 2018: 135 primary missions and 20 secondary missions). This demonstrated the need for a helicopter in the area. A total of 1028 missions were flown. As a result, health insurance companies refused to cover the costs first. An agreement on remuneration was found. The paid flight minute price of around 50 euros was below the normal rate of 66 euros, as no maintenance costs were included. On September 2, 2019, the helicopter went out of service after Christoph 66 of the ADAC Air Rescue went into service and the control center in Kaiserslautern was instructed not to alert Air Rescue Palatinate any more. This had won the tender for the one-year trial operation of a dual-use rescue helicopter.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Air Rescue Palatinate. In: rth.info. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Holger Scholl, Jörn Fries, Tobias Klein: The rescue helicopter for the West Palatinate (Part 3): Where two or three ... - JLR and WKK put helicopters into service for intra-hospital transports. In: rth.info. September 28, 2019, accessed November 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Trouble about a new rescue helicopter in Sembach. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .