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To ensure that we can continue to fly for 19 hours a day we need to update our night vision goggles used by our crew members, our current ones are old and break with no way of repairing them. This is a critical piece of equipment to ensure safe landings particularly in the darker months.
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Situation
The 4 sets of NVGs (Night Vision Goggles) Wiltshire Air Ambulance currently have and use are old and becoming obsolete. This means that they are starting to break and the spares are not available to fix them. If we have to operate without them this will reduce the number of hours we can operate and serve the communities of Wiltshire, Bath and surrounding areas dramatically. In the winter months as much as 10+ hours a day would be lost.
Solution
Wiltshire Air Ambulance need to purchase 4 new sets of Night Vision Goggles. 3 pairs for the operational crew plus a spare to cover when a set goes away for servicing. These sets will be of a newer generation of image intensification therefore will work better on those nights when there is no moon light and the cloud cover prevents starlight. They will also be more reliable, this is crucial for safety, capability and to keep the crew flying for 19 hours a day.
