| When i worked on a (military but not coastguard) SAR flight the typical times were:
From the time phone call received by the helicopter crew to getting airborne was between 5 and 10 minutes.
For a 40 mile trip you'd be looking at approx a 20 minute transit time each way.
There would be 2 winching operations. The first would put the aircrewman on the boat and the heli would stand off. Winching on, kitting up and briefing the casualty would take approx 10 minutes.
Aircraft would come back in and winch back up - probably no more than 5 minutes.
Then a 20 minute transit back to a landing site.
Assume the chamber/hospital has a landing pad on the grounds, then you're in the hands of the chamber/hospital staff
Total time so far is: 65 minutes at the very least. |