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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Night flight training with Air Zermatt: a duty to practice and perfect
It’s dark in the Upper Valais. The sky is cloudless, with a touch of winter chill in the air. All is still. Until, that is, a helicopter turbine starts to whistle. The crew is ready for this year’s night flight training.
Flying concrete:
construction season with Air Zermatt
The construction season in Zermatt is two months long. During this time, everything has to run like clockwork in the various departments at Air Zermatt, with precise planning, perfect coordination and effective collaboration by everyone involved.
From Manali to the Matterhorn:
Amit and Nishant at Air Zermatt
Special guests Amit Thakur and Nishant Thakur are back in Zermatt for the summer. The two 32-year-old task specialists from Manali in northern India are visiting Air Zermatt for the fourth time. They’ve come with the goal of learning as much as they can from the experience, professionalism and processes at Air Zermatt, and taking these insights back with them to their home country.
A nighttime call from the mountains: rescue missions with Air Zermatt
The sun has long since disappeared behind the mountains. The last lights flicker in the villages down in the valley – but further up, it’s pitch black. In the midst of this peaceful night, the rescue crew’s phone suddenly rings in the hangar. An emergency call. And just a few minutes later, the Air Zermatt crew heads off into the night.
