Behind the scenes – blog posts from Air Zermatt
Find out more about Air Zermatt, its employees and themes that affect the helicopter rescue company in the articles below.
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‘For me, flying is a school of life’
Kevin Lauber is at the beginning of a big dream – as Air Zermatt’s new junior pilot, he gets to fly where home, the mountains and his childhood dream all come together. In this interview he talks about how he came to helicopter flying, the special responsibility of being a young pilot and why flying is one thing above all else for him: a lesson in life.
With Virtual Reality Into the Sky: Air Zermatt’s Flight Simulator
Training is part of everyday life at Air Zermatt. Anyone flying rescue missions, transport operations, or other demanding assignments in the mountains must continuously sharpen their skills. With the flight simulator from Loft Dynamics, Air Zermatt relies on a highly modern and sustainable form of training that, thanks to virtual reality, comes remarkably close to real-life flying.
MEM winter course: rescues in the icy cold
Winter in the mountains means cold and icy months with lots of snow. Anyone who signs up for the Mountain Emergency Medicine (MEM) Winter Course knows it’s not a theoretical undertaking in a well-heated classroom. It’s all about training emergency medicine in locations where altitude, cold, wind and terrain make every decision more complex.
Avalanche control by helicopter – preemptive action
Despite there being less snow in lots of places at the moment than in other years, the longer-term avalanche risk is high. This is due to the structure of the snow cover, which is unstable, brittle, and made up of layers that have not bonded together well. The result of this is that we’ve seen a surprising number of spontaneous avalanches this winter, making it all the more important to carry out controlled, artificial triggering of avalanches. This is a job where precision, experience and teamwork are crucial.
