Alice Springs tourist facility details incredible history of RFDS
The Royal Flying Doctor Service has been saving Australian lives since 1928, and a tourist facility at Alice Springs details its incredible history.
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The Chatroom - Royal Flying Doctor Service, Alice Springs
Tourism NT catches up with John Lynch, CEO Royal Flying Doctor Service Central Operations, to talk about the tourism facility's innovative new hologram attraction.
RFDS Medi-Jet 24 first 100 days of operational service
The RFDS Medi-Jet 24 has reached another milestone – its first 100 days of operational service.
Over its first 100 days, under the stewardship of our dedicated crews, the RFDS Medi-Jet 24 has:
• conducted 78 missions around the clock,
• landed at 21 locations in six states/territories,
• flown 108,000 kilometres, and, most importantly,
• airlifted 128 patients to specialist care at a major hospital, providing the finest care in the air every step of the way.
It’s first mission was the ICU transfer of a critically-ill patient from the Alice Springs Hospital to Royal Melbourne Hospital. The direct flight in the RFDS Medi-Jet 24 took just three hours – two hours quicker than previously in one of our trusty turbo-prop PC-12 aircraft which requires a stop to re-fuel at Broken Hill along the way.
In all, the RFDS Medi-Jet 24 has saved 75 flying hours – an average of one hour for every mission.
Slashing mission time of our long-haul flights is just the start. The RFDS Medi-Jet 24 has also delivered on its promise of enhancing our operational capability and versatility, including:
• transferring a ICU patient from Darwin direct to Adelaide without refuelling;
• carrying premature twins from a country hospital to the Women’s & Children’s Hospital, each in their own ICU Mansell Unit;
• landing at an outback airfield to airlift a cardiac patient to specialist care in Adelaide;
• efficiently transporting three-stretchered patients on the same flight from a regional hospital;
• airlifting two unrelated ICU patients on the same mission from a country hospital;
• the interstate transfer of newborn babies to Melbourne for specialist heart surgery.
Psychologist Denise Perkins — Royal Flying Doctor Service, Broken Hill Base, Australia
RFDS Psychologist Denise Perkins, originally from the UK, talks about coming to Australia to work for the Service in the area of mental health services for Australians living, working and travelling in the outback.
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RFDS Hologram of John Flynn Clip
Sample of the life size Hologram of John Flynn telling the story of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The Hologram can be seen at the Alice Springs Royal Flying Doctor Service Tourist Facility.
Adelaide Airport partners with the Royal Flying Doctor Service
In the western corner of the airport, a brilliant new facility has arrived… a cornerstone of Adelaide Airport’s world leading aero-medical services and a vital component of our thirty-year vision.
This video takes a look at the new home of the Royal Flying Doctor Service and the major hub for all South Australian medical flights, plus those of the RFDS Broken Hill, Alice Springs and Port Augusta operations.
In the same precinct are the MAC State Rescue Helicopters and the new base for MedStar helicopters, making it the epicentre for aeromedical care in South Australia.
RFDS Darwin Tourist Facilty - Opening Night
Opening Night - Two Iconic Territory Stories in One Iconic Location. The Royal Flying Doctor Service and the Bombing of Darwin Harbour at Stokes Hill Wharf.
RFDS Darwin Tourist Facility April - July Build
April-July timelapse of the new RFDS Darwin Tourist Facility build. Two Iconic Territory Stories in One Iconic Location. The Royal Flying Doctor Service and the Bombing of Darwin Harbour at Stokes Hill Wharf. Opening August 2016.
Royal Flying Doctor Service – Innovation carries you in an emergency (TVC, 60s)
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) presents a familiar face, years of experience and innovation that carries you in an emergency when you need it most.
Using the latest in aviation, medical and communications technology, the RFDS has been saving lives in rural and remote Australia for more than 90 years. The latest TV commercial features the world’s first purpose aeromedical jet, the RFDS Medi-Jet 24. The latest TV commercial features the world’s first purpose aeromedical jet, the RFDS Medi-Jet 24, with dirt landing footage captured on North Well Station in outback South Australia.
(TVC, 60 seconds, 2019)
Flying Doctor Road Landing at McKinlay
Flying Doctor designated road landing strip, about 200km south-east of Mount Isa.
Flight on Boxing Day 2016 to retrieve an unwell patient, after local rains made the town airstrip unusable.
Video by: Captain Mark Stuart-Russell
RFDS Adelaide Base Opening
On October 20, 2016, Royal Flying Doctor Service Central Operations officially unveiled its single biggest investment; the $13million new Adelaide Base. This new world-class aeromedical precinct will give RFDS Central Operations enhanced patient care capabilities, adequate hangarage for their fleet of aircraft and improved aircraft maintenance facilities.
John Lynch CEO RFDS
John Lynch tells us what its like to be part of the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
Jan Ende and the RFDS
A pilot in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia needed to be resourceful. Aircraft were vital for medical services and for supporting communities, Jan Ende loved the Kimberley and met a flight nurse who felt the same. Here are some of Jan's memories of those times.
Meet Albin
Meet Albin, a pilot with the RFDS – we help him save lives.
The Scene - episode 2
Lock-o tries on his pilot uniform and tests out the new RFDS PC-12 at the visitor facility. Araluen Arts Centre welcomes Scott Rankin's theatrical performance 'Namatjira'. In this week's Tourism Central Australias Hot Spot, Peter takes us to rugged 4WD country just outside of Alice.
Training to help patients breathe easier in Dubbo
Our training is about teaching doctors to expect the unexpected. In this short video you can see a new RFDS registrar working with a Flight Nurse to practice airway management. They are using a SALAD (suction-assisted laryngoscopy airway decontamination) simulation system.
RFDS and IGA Major Partnership
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) Central Operations has unveiled its Independent Grocers of Australia (IGA) branded aeromedical aircraft in recognition of IGA’s new, three-year major sponsorship of RFDS in South Australia and the Northern Territory.
Royal Flying Doctor Service Open Day ,Jandakot
Open day for the RFDS at There Jandakot base I was there and made a vid hope you like it
Credit: To my Brother for helping me Thanks ????????
RFDS nightlanding at Nypari in the Outback
Royal Flying Doctor service in reality does those things to save lives in the remote outback of Australia...