What training services do SAS provide?

Courses available at Gloucestershire range from ab initio advanced and role conversion training for external customers, to continuation and instrument flying training for PAS/MAS crews. They include:

• Basic, advanced and operational flying
• JAR-FCL approved Instrument Rating
• JAR-FCL approved TRI/IRI (not Module 1)
• CAA approved TRE standardisation course
• Mountain, night vision goggle (NVG) and instrument flying
• Utility role conversion
• Conversion to type (MD900/902, ECl35, AS355, BolO5 and BN2)
• HEMS crewmember
• Police observer
• Crew resource management (CRM)
• Covert surveillance (fixed wing)
• Flight safety
• Operational training for senior emergency service personnel

Programmes are structured to meet the needs of individual customers, taking into account geographic, cultural, operational and technical variations. The police observer course provides officers with a sound basic knowledge of airmanship and covers the full requirements of the UK Police Air Observer's Training Manual. Paramedic training is conducted in support of ambulance service requirements, to provide trained crewmembers to operate in air ambulance units.

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