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...pictures of tough times in Cleveland...
...night turns dark, airline pilots have the training and equipment to fly using just their instruments. "You wouldn't get onto an airliner that can't fly through clouds," says Drew Ferguson, lead pilot for Metro Life Flight, which operates EMS helicopters for MetroHealth, the public hospital in Cleveland. "What we do is more dangerous than flying a commercial airliner, no question...
...Sikorsky helicopter off the roof. The sun blinks like a strobe light through the spinning blades as Pietro, 42, follows a route he knows well, retrieving a car wreck victim from a suburban hospital and flying him to the Level I trauma center at MetroHealth, the public hospital in Cleveland...
These conditions are perfect for flying, yet both Pietro and his co-pilot Dario Garcia, 32, stay busy. As Pietro climbs over the snowy streets of Cleveland, Garcia monitors the instrument panel to make sure the helicopter's engines don't overload. Next Garcia uses the radio to warn two local airport towers, two hospitals and all the planes in the area that his bright yellow helicopter is about to traipse directly across their dedicated flight paths...
...that always flies choppers with two engines and two pilots. Founded in 1982, the program has logged just under 66,000 patient flights without a single accident. "I wouldn't fly any other way," says Drew Ferguson, Metro Life Flight's lead pilot. "I don't want to die." Cleveland Metro's Sikorsky S76A started life as a taxi for corporate executives. It is heavy, fast, and more expensive to operate than the average medical chopper. Yet even with these added costs, "we still made money last year," says Ferguson...