Official Summary

10/23/2007--Introduced.Requires a pilot of an aircraft providing emergency medical services to comply with federal crewmember flight time and duty period and rest requirements whenever there is a medical crew on board, without regard to whether there are patients on board. Requires the Adm

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Official Summary

10/23/2007--Introduced.
Requires a pilot of an aircraft providing emergency medical services to comply with federal crewmember flight time and duty period and rest requirements whenever there is a medical crew on board, without regard to whether there are patients on board. Requires the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to initiate a rulemaking to:
(1) require pilots of aircraft providing emergency medical service to use a standardized checklist of risk evaluation factors to determine whether a mission should be accepted;
(2) establish performance based flight dispatch procedures for such pilots; and
(3) require, after a certain feasibility study is done, flight data and cockpit voice recorders on board such aircraft.

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