Are all of our people OK

[Ngtflyr]

Just seeing this now. I'm fine just a little busy. It has been a bad year, 10 EMS helo crashes so far this year nationwide. I work for Air Evac a subsidary of PHI, up until June we had a stellar safety record, best in the industry. A big factor on why I chose PHI, it has the best equipment, maintenance and safety record. We had a fatal crash near Houston on 6 June, about 0230 in the morning 4 fatalities. Last week we had another mishap up near Flagstaff three injuries one serious, on NVGs at 340 in the morning, most likely a brownout.. The sad thing in virtually all the mishaps is that they were preventable expecially the most recent one, the midair near Flagstaff. High time pilots one with over 10K hrs and the other over 5K hrs, for some reason they just didn't see each other on a clear vfr afternoon. Still the most dangerous part of my job is my drive to and from work. Thanks for the concern.

[Xplantdad]

Thanks for checking in Dave...

BTW, If you see some fool idiot waving at you from a blue Mazda while you are flying...it's me!

[Bill Pritchard]

I'm still fully expecting him to buzz my house one of these days

[Ngtflyr]

Bill,

I am on nites for a week starting the 4th, so if you hear a loud noise at 4am you will know who it is. What's your street address again so I can plug it in the GPS.

[mockingbird812]

Bill told me he wanted to see what a brown-out looked like.

[Bill Pritchard]

Uh-oh, I may come to regret my smart aleck comment

[CC Rider]

We were staying at a Quality Inn (should have been named Lack of Quality Inn) in Flagstaff this week. We were at the Grand Canyon when this happened.

We did one of those helicopter tours of the canyon.