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  • 30-12-2014 8:34pm
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    6541
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    Attachment not found.Okay, picture is a bit crap, but it looked military green and it was going in the direction of Castlebar Hospital yesterday evening. So what or who is it !!!


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  • #2
    Growler!!!
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    Air Corp AW139

    http://www.military.ie/en/air-corps/fleet/aw139/

    Based in Athlone. Operates as a medical evacuation heli


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    6541
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    Growler!!! wrote: »
    Air Corp AW139

    http://www.military.ie/en/air-corps/fleet/aw139/

    Based in Athlone. Operates as a medical evacuation heli

    Thanks for that, so why would they be hanging around Castlebar ? Just wondering.


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    Sterling Archer
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    Growler!!! wrote: »
    Air Corp AW139

    http://www.military.ie/en/air-corps/fleet/aw139/

    Based in Athlone. Operates as a medical evacuation heli

    With Snow landing gear on too :p


  • #5
    Growler!!!
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    You said it yourself, Castlebar hospital. Either picking up or dropping off.


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    Shane_ef wrote: »
    With Snow landing gear on too :p

    Been wearing regularly for landings on soft ground.


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  • #7
    6541
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    Growler!!! wrote: »
    You said it yourself, Castlebar hospital. Either picking up or dropping off.

    But this is the thing that gets me, I see numerous choppers in and out of Castlebar all the time, from the reek and what not, what I can't figure out is why sometime use the Military ones and why sometime use the orange rescue ones ?


  • #8
    Growler!!!
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    6541 wrote: »
    But this is the thing that gets me, I see numerous choppers in and out of Castlebar all the time, from the reek and what not, what I can't figure why sometime use the Military once and why sometime use the orange rescue ones ?

    They operate in conjunction with each other. Depending on taskings, the Air Corp heli may be the nearest and the Coast Gaurd me be busy for example.


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    6541
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    Growler!!! wrote: »
    They operate in conjunction with each other. Depending on taskings, the Air Corp heli may be the nearest and the Coast Gaurd me be busy for example.

    Okay Fair play.


  • #10
    Peregrine
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    The AW139 is the Air Corps doing medevac for HSE. The S-92s(orange and white) do search and rescue and medevac for the Irish Coast Guard. All going to the hospital with or to pick up patients.


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    Oscar Bravo
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    Medevac 112 landed at Castlebar hospital at 1600 local this evening. they are often in a few times in a week along with the Sligo based S-92 ,Rescue 118. In recent times the Sligo based S-92 has been tasked by the HSE to carry out patient transfers from example Castlebar-Dublin , in these cases the callsign Medevac 118 instead of Rescue 118. follow Medevac 112 on facebook and in the past few days the official Rescue 118 page has become active again ;)


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