AIR METHODS CRITICAL CARE EVALUATION EXAM
2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔At what age must a child occupy an approved seat with a separate safety belt
properly secured? - ✔✔Each passenger who is 2 years or older will occupy an
approved seat with a separate safety belt secured about them during surface moment,
takeoff and landing.
✔✔What considerations are there for a child who has not reached their second
birthday? - ✔✔1. Child may be held in adults lap but will not share a restraining device.
2. Child seats must conform and have in red letters, "certified for use in motor vehicles
and aircraft".
✔✔All pilots must ensure to the extent possible that passengers and cargo to include
carry on baggage are checked for what items? - ✔✔Hazardous material and
unauthorized weapons.
✔✔Search and Rescue flight limitations. - ✔✔...
✔✔Can air methods pilots except search and rescue operations? - ✔✔Under no
conditions will a pilot except or conduct a rescue operation.
A pilot may except a search assistance operation only if there is no involvement of any
element of a rescue.
✔✔Shift change and Post Mission Briefings. - ✔✔...
✔✔At the change of shift the P C will conduct a briefing if the duty medical personnel
and crew members. What minimum topics will be discussed during the brief? -
✔✔Minimum topics for a shift change brief are:
1. Weather.
2. Mechanical issues and upcoming inspections for the Aircraft and medial equipment.
3. Public relations events.
4. Third riders.
5. Scheduled training
6. Events that may impact the duty periods operations
✔✔What items will be included but not limited to for every post flight mission debriefing?
- ✔✔Post flight mission debriefing will include but not limited to:
1. Safety issues.
2. Communication problems with aircraft, portables or other comm equipment.
3. Weather concerns.
4. Aircraft issues.
, 5. Note worthy items.
✔✔Stabilized Approach Concept - ✔✔..
✔✔What are the Air Methods stabilized approach standards! - ✔✔Course is + or - one
dot for precision and one half scale for non precision.
Only small changes to pitch and roll to maintain course.
Apply constant power setting for helicopters.
Stable decent +\- one dot on glide slope for precision approaches and stable rate for
non-precision.
Checklist is completed.
✔✔What are the basic tenets of a stabilized approach? - ✔✔1. Early planning.
2. Use of constant power setting.
3. Use pitch to maintain rate of decent or glide slope.
✔✔Stabilized approaches must be established before descending below what following
altitudes? - ✔✔V F R or visual instrument approach: H A A. Height above airfield + 500
feet.
When a conducting a circling maneuver after the approach:
H A A. Height above airfield + 500 feet or M D A. Which ever is lower.
Any straight-in instrument approach conducted under I F R: H A T + 1000 feet.
✔✔Sterile Cockpit. - ✔✔..
✔✔Pilots engage medical personal in a continuous, diplomatic, educational effort to
make them aware of what sterile cockpit considerations? - ✔✔During critical phases of
flight, taxi, takeoff, approach and landings, the crew needs to be aware to limiting
conversations.
✔✔What can the pilot due when conversations of medical crew essential to patient care
but to the flight are taking place during critical phases of flight? - ✔✔The pilot may have
to isolate the medical personnel on I C S. It is essential that medical personal limit use
of the call button to urgent situations requiring the pilots immediate response.
2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔At what age must a child occupy an approved seat with a separate safety belt
properly secured? - ✔✔Each passenger who is 2 years or older will occupy an
approved seat with a separate safety belt secured about them during surface moment,
takeoff and landing.
✔✔What considerations are there for a child who has not reached their second
birthday? - ✔✔1. Child may be held in adults lap but will not share a restraining device.
2. Child seats must conform and have in red letters, "certified for use in motor vehicles
and aircraft".
✔✔All pilots must ensure to the extent possible that passengers and cargo to include
carry on baggage are checked for what items? - ✔✔Hazardous material and
unauthorized weapons.
✔✔Search and Rescue flight limitations. - ✔✔...
✔✔Can air methods pilots except search and rescue operations? - ✔✔Under no
conditions will a pilot except or conduct a rescue operation.
A pilot may except a search assistance operation only if there is no involvement of any
element of a rescue.
✔✔Shift change and Post Mission Briefings. - ✔✔...
✔✔At the change of shift the P C will conduct a briefing if the duty medical personnel
and crew members. What minimum topics will be discussed during the brief? -
✔✔Minimum topics for a shift change brief are:
1. Weather.
2. Mechanical issues and upcoming inspections for the Aircraft and medial equipment.
3. Public relations events.
4. Third riders.
5. Scheduled training
6. Events that may impact the duty periods operations
✔✔What items will be included but not limited to for every post flight mission debriefing?
- ✔✔Post flight mission debriefing will include but not limited to:
1. Safety issues.
2. Communication problems with aircraft, portables or other comm equipment.
3. Weather concerns.
4. Aircraft issues.
, 5. Note worthy items.
✔✔Stabilized Approach Concept - ✔✔..
✔✔What are the Air Methods stabilized approach standards! - ✔✔Course is + or - one
dot for precision and one half scale for non precision.
Only small changes to pitch and roll to maintain course.
Apply constant power setting for helicopters.
Stable decent +\- one dot on glide slope for precision approaches and stable rate for
non-precision.
Checklist is completed.
✔✔What are the basic tenets of a stabilized approach? - ✔✔1. Early planning.
2. Use of constant power setting.
3. Use pitch to maintain rate of decent or glide slope.
✔✔Stabilized approaches must be established before descending below what following
altitudes? - ✔✔V F R or visual instrument approach: H A A. Height above airfield + 500
feet.
When a conducting a circling maneuver after the approach:
H A A. Height above airfield + 500 feet or M D A. Which ever is lower.
Any straight-in instrument approach conducted under I F R: H A T + 1000 feet.
✔✔Sterile Cockpit. - ✔✔..
✔✔Pilots engage medical personal in a continuous, diplomatic, educational effort to
make them aware of what sterile cockpit considerations? - ✔✔During critical phases of
flight, taxi, takeoff, approach and landings, the crew needs to be aware to limiting
conversations.
✔✔What can the pilot due when conversations of medical crew essential to patient care
but to the flight are taking place during critical phases of flight? - ✔✔The pilot may have
to isolate the medical personnel on I C S. It is essential that medical personal limit use
of the call button to urgent situations requiring the pilots immediate response.
