Abstract
In 2006, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) held a helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) Weather Summit, co-sponsored by the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. Representatives from several national air medical organizations and private companies were invited to discuss the major issues in emergency medical services (EMS) that involve weather: from weather reporting to FAA regulations to common HEMS practices. One of the practices that the FAA was concerned about was helicopter shopping. The FAA defines helicopter shopping as “the practice of calling, in sequence, various operators until an operator agrees to take a flight assignment, without sharing with subsequent operators the reasons the flight was declined by previously called operators.”
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