Recent sales to Airlift
Northwest, Cook Children's Medical Center/Teddy Bear Transport, and
Life Lion underscore how Sky Connect products "enhance the safety
and effectiveness of emergency medical missions while delivering
reliable, affordable performance," according to Wiley Loughran, the
company's senior vice president of sales and marketing.
The sales were packaged with AeroMed Software, a critical care
management product by Innovative Engineering one of many solutions
providers Sky Connect works with to maximize customer value. Sky
Connect is the leading manufacturer of Iridium-based aircraft
tracking and telephone systems for rotorcraft, fixed-wing, marine
applications and ground assets.
Airlift Northwest, in Seattle, Wash., has purchased 10 Sky
Connect TRACKER systems to provide voice and tracking capability
for its diverse fleet of rotorcraft and fixed-wing aircraft.
In Texas, Teddy Bear Transport will equip one King Air and one
Bell 222 helicopter with Sky Connect's TRACKER-MMU (Mission
Management Unit), which delivers two-way satellite text messaging
and voice calls. The MMU will enable Teddy Bear Air to exchange
standard or user-defined text messages and conduct phone calls
between their crews and dispatch communicators.
Life Lion is purchasing 13 Sky Connect systems to equip 11
ground ambulances and two helicopters. The ambulances will utilize
theSky Connect MOBILE system, which offers a simple, lightweight,
one-box solution with full global tracking, voice and data
service.
For air medical applications, Sky Connect products enable pilots
to focus on ensuring safety for the patient and medical crew. They
can telephone anyone, for example, at the push of a button, and in
case of emergency, they know assistance can be directed quickly to
the exact last known position. Tracking data and messages are
displayed by AeroMed Software’s AeroMap mapping module and
stored in its Dispatch module, providing a total solution for the
communications center. AeroMap provides street-level detail that
enables operators to precisely pinpoint an aircraft's location
anytime and anywhere worldwide. What’s more, the combination
of TRACKER and AeroMed Software enables users to bill for actual
miles flown, recouping the system costs in short order.
More than 2,000 aircraft around the world are flying with Sky
Connect equipment.