Medivac

The sun is setting on the western horizon as we settle at 16'000 feet for the hour and 20 minute flight to Cowtown. We're staying low today as we're conducting a medivac, we can keep our cabin altitude at about 2800 feet at this height which provides a comfortable ride for our not so well passenger. The patient we're giving a ride to today looks in fairly rough shape with IV tubes and other metal contraptions sticking out of her. It made for interesting loading as you had to be very careful to not bump any of them.

It's actually my first medivac, as well as my captains first. So that makes this trip cool. It's neat to put the word "medivac" on the end of our call sign which gives us priority over most other flights in the sky. ATC works hard to get us to our destination quickly.

We took off RWY 27 in Toon Town and are given the clearance for RWY28 into Cowtown which provided a very direct and straight flight without more than a 20 degree turn the whole way. On short final to 28 ATC asks us if we'd prefer RWY25 which would put us on a tight 3 mile final but would also put us on the ground nearer to the apron we so desire tonight. We accept the offer and make a solid left turn to intercept final for RWY25, Tower asks us to keep our speed up so an A320 that's on final for 34 can land. Well with only 3 miles to go there's not a lot of room left to keep the speed up, but we do our best and it makes for a smooth and slightly long landing on 25 which gets us quickly across 34 and out of the 320's way. We exit on A and call up Ground control for the short for the short taxi to our apron. After unloading and grabbing a bit of fuel, we are ready to go East, back home at FL230.