Overview
- Chief Pilot Owen McTeggart and Pilot Training Captain Garry Brasher reached the rare HEMS benchmark of more than 6,000 flying hours each.
- They were recognised at Yorkshire Air Ambulance’s Nostell airbase with a presentation by Director of Aviation Steve Wardby.
- The pair trained together at the Army School of Aviation in 1996–97 and now share over 58 years of combined experience across military, police and air ambulance aviation.
- In senior roles, they mentor new pilots and help maintain the charity’s training and safety standards across operations.
- HEMS flying involves frequent short sorties into confined, unpredictable sites, making such sustained logged hours uncommon.