SAR 75
SAR 75 (also SAR Ulm 75 ) is the name of a former rescue helicopter of the German Armed Forces , which operated from November 2, 1971 to March 31, 2003 in the city of Ulm in Baden-Wuerttemberg (initially in the Wilhelmsburg barracks, from 1983 at the German Armed Forces Hospital in Ulm ) was stationed. After Christoph 1 at the Munich-Harlaching Hospital, it was the second rescue helicopter used in civil air rescue in Germany. SAR 75 was decommissioned on April 1, 2003 and replaced by the Christoph 22 rescue helicopter as part of a civil-military operator model by the Bundeswehr and ADAC Air Rescue .
history
prehistory
One of the driving forces behind the development of civil air rescue in Germany in the second half of the 1960s was the colonel physician Friedrich Wilhelm Ahnefeld , who was known as a pioneer in emergency medicine and who at that time was chief physician at the Bundeswehr hospital in Ulm, which was still being set up . After the federal government had determined in its traffic policy report from 1970 that the Bundeswehr medical service should, under certain circumstances, participate in the civil rescue service due to the increasing number of traffic accidents, Ahnefeld was commissioned to set up a test rescue center in Ulm.
Test rescue center
In May 1971, the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn approved the operation of the new test rescue center in Ulm, which was initially supposed to extend over a period of six months. The first use of a rescue helicopter in Ulm was carried out on August 9, 1971; A helicopter of the Alouette II type provided by the DRK Landesverband Baden-Württemberg was used as a helicopter . With the stationing of a Bell UH-1D on November 2, 1971, the test rescue center was officially put into operation. In addition to the helicopter, which was given the radio call name SAR Ulm 75 , a doctor's car and an ambulance of the Bundeswehr were also put into service in Ulm.
During the test phase, the rescue helicopter returned every evening after the end of duty to the Landsberg / Lech Air Base, where the Air Transport Wing 61 (LTG 61), to whose SAR squadron SAR 75 belonged, was stationed. Since this procedure was soon considered to be too costly and time-consuming, the helicopter and crew were permanently stationed in the Wilhelmsburg barracks in Ulm in March 1972.
In May 1973 the Ulm fire brigade put the first hydraulically operated rescue spreader into service in Europe. On August 29, 1974, SAR 75 was first used to fly this rescue spreader to a serious traffic accident. In order to be able to cope better with such operations afterwards, a portable unit for the spreader with a combustion engine was specially designed, which could be loaded into the rescue helicopter. This helicopter rescue set was available from September 1974 and was used a total of 136 times until the widespread introduction of hydraulic rescue sets in 1986. The helicopter rescue kit is on display today in the entrance hall of the main fire station on Keplerstrasse.
Air rescue center at the Bundeswehr hospital
In 1983 the helicopter landing pad of the Bundeswehr hospital on the Obere Eselsberg , which had opened three years earlier, was put into operation, giving SAR 75 a new location. For many years the crew of the helicopter was housed in the nurses' home on the premises of the BWK, which is why they first had to drive a VW Beetle from their accommodation to the landing site when they were deployed .
In 1996, a new version of European aviation law changed the legal basis for the use of helicopters in civil air rescue. The Bell UH-1D previously used by the German Armed Forces no longer met the legal requirements with just one engine and should be replaced by new helicopters by 2009 at the latest. In addition, a gradual reduction in SAR locations by the Bundeswehr also threatened SAR 75 at the BWK Ulm.
However, since the Bundeswehr Hospital expressed a great interest in continuing to participate in air rescue, a civil-military operator model was developed that had already proven itself in this form at the Bundeswehr Central Hospital in Koblenz . Finally, an agreement was reached with ADAC Luftrettung on joint operation of the future Ulm rescue helicopter: the helicopter and pilot were to be provided by the ADAC, while the emergency doctor and paramedic or HEMS crew member , now HEMS TC, would continue to be provided by the Bundeswehr hospital.
The decommissioning of SAR 75 , which was meanwhile also known by his affectionate nickname Mathilde , was originally planned for December 31, 2002. Due to some delays, Mathilde did not fly her last mission until March 31, 2003. The next morning at sunrise, her successor, a type BK 117 machine from ADAC Air Rescue , which was given the radio call name Christoph 22 , went into operation. In its 31 years of service, SAR 75 had taken off on a total of 21,000 missions and had completed 11,300 flight hours.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-J. Hilgers: Air rescue station Christoph 22: Bundeswehr hospital in Ulm. In: ulm.bwkrankenhaus.de. Retrieved September 5, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Wehrmed :: Article: Helicopter rescue and long-distance intensive care transport - a key role for anesthetists in the Bundeswehr. In: wehrmed.de. Retrieved September 5, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Team www.rth.info: rth.info | 40 years of Ulm Air Rescue: Milestone in SAR service. In: rth.info. Retrieved September 5, 2016 .
- ^ City of Ulm: City of Ulm - 1945 - today. (No longer available online.) In: ulm.de. Archived from the original on May 7, 2016 ; accessed on September 5, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
