EMS Wire Strike Avoidance training is a one day course specifically designed to give air ambulance/medical flight crews and rescue pilots the skills needed to fly safely in the wire and obstruction environment. It has been developed and refined over many years by some of the most experienced helicopter low-level flight crews around the world.

Summary of course contents (slight changes may occur due to audience needs):

• Applied situational awareness in the wire environment
• Understanding your exposure to the wire and obstruction environment
• Low-level helicopter accident analysis
• Crew Resource Management: what the pilot and EMS flight crews need to do to act together as a team
• The responsibilities of each crew member
• In-flight communications
• Understanding the wire and obstruction environment
• Basic awareness that low-level flight crews must have and maintain while operating in the wire and obstruction environment
• Dynamics of the wire environments
• Traps waiting for untrained crews
• Visibility engineering: what you can and cannot see and why
• How flight crews can forecast the presence of wire long before they can actually see it
• Illusions in the wire environment: what causes them and how to manage them
• The high wire reconnaissance: how it differs from a normal recon
• Additional dangers during low-level operations
• Emergency procedures
• What to do if a wire strike is imminent
• Error management in the air
• Violating minimum approach distances
• How patrol crews allow the accident chain to develop
• Night operations in the wire and obstruction environment (upon request)