Meet your Crew

EAAA’s distinctive yellow H145 helicopter is capable of carrying two flight crew (there is always a pilot and a co-pilot on each flight), three clinicians and a patient. The helicopters, pilots, and engineers are provided by EAAA’s aviation partner Babcock International, and the entire crew are a close-knit team who support each other and work in unison to reach patients in urgent need of critical care as quickly and safely as possible.

EAAA’s clinicians have a huge range of skills and expertise from a variety of backgrounds, which include critical care, the military, intensive care, anaesthetics, emergency medicine (including paediatrics) and pre-hospital emergency medicine. Many of the pilots with EAAA have a military background and experience of flying to surveyed sites.

When we are dispatched by road in a critical care car, it’s just our clinicians who attend, with the critical care paramedic driving the car. This enables the doctor on shift to continue planning for the medical emergency en-route.

There are a variety of doctors at EAAA, including Consultants, Military, Emeritus and PHEM Trainees. They work as part of the crew to bring advanced critical care to some of the most seriously unwell and injured people in our region.

Meet some of the paramedics with EAAA. They include Critical Care Paramedics, Helicopter Emergency Medicine Service (HEMS) Paramedics and Advanced Paramedics. As with our doctors, they work as part of the crew to bring advanced critical care to some of the most seriously unwell and injured people in our region.

The pilots with EAAA are provided by EAAA’s aviation partner, Babcock. They are highly skilled aviators, many with military backgrounds where they have gained several years’ experience of flying to and landing at unsurveyed sites. This experience is essential on HEMS missions where the flying is dynamic, and they never know where they may be tasked to next.