Realistic Medivac

Lt Col Keith · 2012-11-23, 15:33

For the future realism, you'r excellent modellers may wish to consider the fact that the British Army have decided to keep the evacuating Chinook on the ground for 20 minutes to allow stabalisation of the evacuee prior to medivac. Cover is now provided by a hovering Apache.

Rudd · 2012-11-23, 15:40

You sure mate?

I went to a lecture last night at the Sussex medical school where a serving paramedic with the MERT indicated that this wasn't the case, that using techniques like horizontal resus the team prepare the casualty for reception to the ED or right turn resus (straight to theatre) in about 10-15minutes.

edit, though handover from the men on the ground can take up to 5minutes

also, 20minutes sounds like you're asking for your chopper to be shot down on take off or mortared on the ground...

AfterDune · 2012-11-23, 17:08

That might work better on ArmA, not so much on BF2. People don't need to be stabilised, just healed up. While you could give a "medevac" helicopter healing abilities (like the UH1D medevac in Vietnam), it doesn't work as it does in real life.

Though it's cool for role-playing, in many cases it's way too dangerous to do this in a live game.

Spec · 2012-11-23, 19:12

Locking as a resuggestion outside of the suggestions forum.

2012-11-23, 15:33	#1
Lt Col Keith Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 36 United Kingdom Location: Wales	Realistic Medivac For the future realism, you'r excellent modellers may wish to consider the fact that the British Army have decided to keep the evacuating Chinook on the ground for 20 minutes to allow stabalisation of the evacuee prior to medivac. Cover is now provided by a hovering Apache.

2012-11-23, 15:40	#2
Rudd Retired PR Developer Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 21,157 United Kingdom Location: Brighton Blog Entries: 2	Re: Realistic Medivac You sure mate? I went to a lecture last night at the Sussex medical school where a serving paramedic with the MERT indicated that this wasn't the case, that using techniques like horizontal resus the team prepare the casualty for reception to the ED or right turn resus (straight to theatre) in about 10-15minutes. edit, though handover from the men on the ground can take up to 5minutes also, 20minutes sounds like you're asking for your chopper to be shot down on take off or mortared on the ground...

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2012-11-23, 17:08	#3
AfterDune Retired PR Developer Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 17,028 Netherlands Blog Entries: 10	Re: Realistic Medivac That might work better on ArmA, not so much on BF2. People don't need to be stabilised, just healed up. While you could give a "medevac" helicopter healing abilities (like the UH1D medevac in Vietnam), it doesn't work as it does in real life. Though it's cool for role-playing, in many cases it's way too dangerous to do this in a live game.

2012-11-23, 19:12	#4
Spec Retired Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 8,383 Germany Location: Frankfurt (Main)	Re: Realistic Medivac Locking as a resuggestion outside of the suggestions forum.
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