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Our Crew
Telstra Child Flight's helicopters are crewed by a captain and co-pilot at all times. Our pilots have undergone hundreds of hours of specialist helicopter training, in fact each of our pilots have clocked up flying hours well in excess of the NSW Health Department's minimum requirements. Pilots work unusual shifts, on standby for 24 hours on base, then enjoying 1 day off, followed by another another 1 day on standby and 5 days off. All of Telstra Child Flight's pilots adhere to the CASA Fatigue Management System and have their own lounge and sleeping accommodation on base. Co-pilots are trained to assist Captains and receive on-going training from the Telstra Child Flight's one 'Check and Training Pilot', who both have instructor rating and multi-engine training approval. Learn more about Captain Rob Berecry Learn more about Co-Pilot Daniel McQuestin Learn
more about Business Operations Learn more about Office Administrator/Support Group Coordinator Erica Denboer NETS NETS is the acronym for the NSW new born and paediatric Emergency Transport Service. Based at Westmead, NETS is the medical service that coordinates the overall process of emergency transport of children across NSW. The Clinical Coordination Centre receives calls to the NETS base at Westmead where they become conference calls involving specialists from a variety of hospitals who discuss the case at hand with the doctors and nurses treating the patient. A NETS consultant chairs this virtual case discussion. If a patient requires retrieval, the NETS team is dispatched by air or road from their base. NETS act as a mobile intensive care unit at the referring hospital. They stabilise the baby or child and transport them to the appropriate hospital. Unlike previous medical helicopters, NETS has the capacity to transport a full range of equipment as well as all of the medical personnel necessary to conduct a retrieval. In the past, these helicopters had the capacity to carry rescue equipment and the nurse and doctor, but were not able to transport the life support system, or perhaps had the life support system but no nurse. The process of a retrieval can be an intense and fatiguing experience for everyone involved, including the medical staff and pilots. For this reason, we have an entire NETS team on stand by, who substitute the on call team if one or all members are not in a condition to perform another retrieval that same day. In our line of work it is vital that our teams are feeling 100%. The second team is also utilised when the first helicopter is already out on a mission and there is another emergency retrieval dispatched through to the team. NETS medical personnel and Telstra Child Flight's own crew work together to man the Telstra Child Flight helicopters. The NETS team is on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We greatly appreciate their hard work and dedication and thank them sincerely.
Our Regional Support Groups Throughout NSW and the ACT Telstra Child Flight has a group of very special friends who generously give their time to raise much needed funds for our unique organisation. Our dedicated support groups organise fundraising events ranging from raffles, merchandise stalls, golf days, bus trips and charity dinners to gala events such as Charity Balls. We greatly value our bighearted supporters and their contributions. Our Regional Support Groups are: Bathurst Support Group Central Coast Support Group Coffs Harbour Support Group Cowra Support Group Kandos/Rylstone Support Group Tamworth Support Group Armidale Support Group Wagga Wagga Support Group |
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