Certification of UN heliports for night operations

For strategic reasons, it is very important to increase the number of heliports certified for UN helicopter operations, as this enhances the efficiency of the UN Peacekeeping Missions. For instance, increased availability of certified heliports over a wider area on the field would enable improvements of the management of UN resources and the air transport activities. In particular, for the case of casualty evacuation (CASEVAC) involving injured military or civilian personnel where a threat to life or limb exists, or medical evacuations (MEDEVAC) of patients, a wider network of heliports is paramount, because it enables much faster and painless transfers of personnel to the first available levels of medical care. Hence, the chances of saving the lives of injured or seriously ill persons increase significantly. In any case, the heliports must meet critical requirements so essentially it is guaranteed the safety of the operations.

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