{"id":3383,"date":"2019-09-08T05:02:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T09:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2019-09-08T05:02:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T09:02:25","slug":"visiting-the-royal-flying-doctor-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=3383","title":{"rendered":"Visiting The Royal Flying Doctor Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday September 8, 2019<\/h3>\n

Road video and map – Erldunda to Alice Springs<\/a><\/p>\n

I have three days of heavy driving ahead to get back to the east coast and so, today, I took it easy. I drove the 200 km\/125 miles to Alice Springs and, after a couple of shopping stops, visited the Royal Flying Doctor Service<\/em> tourist facility here. This is the largest airborne medical service in the world and the tourist facility told the story of its inception in 1927, described the innovations that allowed it to serve the Australian outback and documented its growth to a modern nationwide service. The presentations were modern, using a holographic theatre and virtual reality headsets to help educate visitors, as well as a mock up aircraft and traditional museum displays.<\/p>\n

The service was inspired by the death of a cowboy 11 days after he was injured in 1919 because it took 12 days for a doctor to reach him. In 1927 they originally contracted one aircraft from Queensland and Northern Territory Air Services (QANTAS) but now own 71 custom equipped aircraft operating from 23 air bases. In addition to responding to emergencies they provide routine health clinics for rural communities and transfer patients between medical facilities all over the country. The service is free once it is approved by a team doctor.<\/p>\n

There would be little point in starting an air based medical service without good communication and one of the great innovations was this pedal powered radio transceiver. One was supplied to each small community.\"Flying
\nThe map shows Royal Flying Doctor Service planes airborne while I was visiting. Since it was a Sunday afternoon these are likely emergency flights as routine work is done on weekdays.\"Flying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday September 8, 2019 Road video and map – Erldunda to Alice Springs I have three days of heavy driving ahead to get back to the east coast and so, today, I took it easy. I drove the 200 km\/125 miles to Alice Springs and, after a couple of shopping stops, visited the Royal Flying … Continue reading Visiting The Royal Flying Doctor Service<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84,3],"tags":[89],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}