msmspilot
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It'll get you an opposite direction, even if the tower wants to snivel about it.
WhooHoo!!! you know, since there are 4 scheduled arrivals between 3:30 and 6AM at the airport I'm going to...
It'll get you an opposite direction, even if the tower wants to snivel about it.
Well pretty much most my flights now. Blood, skin graphs, vaccines, body parts and shoes from zappos.If someone's life is on the line, no delay is a must. Box of blood, a heart or pax that is having a heart attack.
Not even Norcal will do that into SFO. The best you get is direct Sausalito.I'll never forget the time I was a lifeguard from MCI-EWR. We hadn't yet reached the SPI transition on the SID and ATC comes on and says "Clear direct Newark."
WHAT?!?!?
Not even Norcal will do that into SFO. The best you get is direct Sausalito.
Unfortunately what I read here aggravates me. I can not imagine anything time sensitive is going to be flown on a 121 carrier and the use of this callsign is dilutes it's true purpose. On all the medical helicopters I have flown on, though every patient transport is critical, only once did the pilot use this designation. Why? The vast majority of the time an extra 3-5 minutes is not going to change the patients outcome. We were in flight the one time the pilot told the controller that he wanted to go lifeguard, it got the desired response. While heart and lungs are often transplanted in 3-5 hours, organs can last outside the body for 10-20 hours so they do not need to rush as much as you would believe.
I think what concerns is it seems like pilots get excited with this designation and the last thing I want is a pilot feeling rushed.
Not even Norcal will do that into SFO. The best you get is direct Sausalito.
Okay, I won't say "LIFEGUARD" when I have a box of organs in back, *and* the flight plan remarks say "RMK LIFEGUARD ..."Unfortunately what I read here aggravates me. I can not imagine anything time sensitive is going to be flown on a 121 carrier and the use of this callsign is dilutes it's true purpose. On all the medical helicopters I have flown on, though every patient transport is critical, only once did the pilot use this designation. Why? The vast majority of the time an extra 3-5 minutes is not going to change the patients outcome. We were in flight the one time the pilot told the controller that he wanted to go lifeguard, it got the desired response. While heart and lungs are often transplanted in 3-5 hours, organs can last outside the body for 10-20 hours so they do not need to rush as much as you would believe.
I think what concerns is it seems like pilots get excited with this designation and the last thing I want is a pilot feeling rushed.
Okay, I won't say "LIFEGUARD" when I have a box of organs in back, *and* the flight plan remarks say "RMK LIFEGUARD ..."
Unfortunately what I read here aggravates me. I can not imagine anything time sensitive is going to be flown on a 121 carrier and the use of this callsign is dilutes it's true purpose. On all the medical helicopters I have flown on, though every patient transport is critical, only once did the pilot use this designation. Why? The vast majority of the time an extra 3-5 minutes is not going to change the patients outcome. We were in flight the one time the pilot told the controller that he wanted to go lifeguard, it got the desired response. While heart and lungs are often transplanted in 3-5 hours, organs can last outside the body for 10-20 hours so they do not need to rush as much as you would believe.
I think what concerns is it seems like pilots get excited with this designation and the last thing I want is a pilot feeling rushed.
The UAX CRJ-700s can only fit at 2 of SFO's non-jetway parking spots, so most of the time that doesn't matter. Only 11 gates for 170+ daily flights until T1 opened a few weeks back. Add flow, recipe for disaster.Doesn't the CRJ have a built in air stair? Someone wasn't being creative enough it sounds like.
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You should.......Maybe. But when there is a shipment between those two points every day (there is a blood bank at one end and a collection center at the other) I don't always assume it is an outright emergency.