{"id":10160,"date":"2017-04-18T14:11:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T20:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/?p=10160"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:53:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:53:30","slug":"black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/black\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Hawk helicopters practice landing at Memorial Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blackhawk helicopter training exercise at Memorial Hospital\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sAyuxtCRmR8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After the first of two Fort Carson UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters landed cat-softly on the rooftop helipad at UCHealth Memorial Hospital on Monday, an instructor pilot from the Army post beamed with pride.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10161\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10161 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/18080709\/jeff-johsnonphoto.pngphotoshop.webp\" alt=\"AUH-60 Black Hawk helicopter is pictured.\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/18080709\/jeff-johsnonphoto.pngphotoshop.webp 1200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/18080709\/jeff-johsnonphoto.pngphotoshop-300x212.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/18080709\/jeff-johsnonphoto.pngphotoshop-1024x722.webp 1024w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/18080709\/jeff-johsnonphoto.pngphotoshop-768x541.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/18080709\/jeff-johsnonphoto.pngphotoshop-150x106.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/18080709\/jeff-johsnonphoto.pngphotoshop-200x141.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from Fort Carson approaches a rooftop helipad at Memorial Hospital Central. Fort Carson pilots practiced landing the aircraft on Monday and Tuesday. Photo by Jeffrey Johnson, UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThat looked beautiful,\u2019\u2019 said Chief Warrant Officer Kenneth Lett, an instructor pilot who helps train Army pilots to medically evacuate wounded soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>The unique training gave Fort Carson pilots a chance to experience what it\u2019s like to land the 59-foot-long helicopter on a 58-by-58-foot pad on top of a hospital. The hardest part, Lett said, is that the pilot can\u2019t see the back of the aircraft and must rely on a crew chief and medic to ensure that the aircraft lands squarely on the pad.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10163\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10163 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/18081046\/helicoptereeephotoshop.webp\" alt=\"A UH-60 Black hawk helicopter is shown practicing landing on the rooftop helipad at UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central.\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/18081046\/helicoptereeephotoshop.webp 1200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/18081046\/helicoptereeephotoshop-284x300.webp 284w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/18081046\/helicoptereeephotoshop-971x1024.webp 971w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/18081046\/helicoptereeephotoshop-768x810.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/18081046\/helicoptereeephotoshop-142x150.webp 142w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/18081046\/helicoptereeephotoshop-200x211.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from Fort Carson lands on the rooftop helipad at Memorial Hospital Central.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt gets us into the habit, so the adrenalin level (in a real emergency) is a lot lower and everything is a lot calmer,\u2019\u2019 said Lett, who served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. \u201cIf and when we need to drop patients off at Memorial, it\u2019s as seamless and as smooth as possible.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Fort Carson\u2019s choppers landed on the same helipad used by Memorial Star Transport, a smaller aircraft, which transports critically ill or injured patients to Memorial\u2019s emergency and trauma teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a unique thing to do for an aircraft of this size,\u2019\u2019 said Lett. \u201cMost of all, we want the crew to know what it feels like to land on a rooftop helipad.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The pilots are part of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> General Support Aviation Battalion, 4<sup>th<\/sup> Combat Aviation Brigade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the first of two Fort Carson UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters landed cat-softly on the rooftop helipad at UCHealth Memorial Hospital on Monday, an instructor pilot from the Army post beamed with pride. \u201cThat looked beautiful,\u2019\u2019 said Chief Warrant Officer Kenneth Lett, an instructor pilot who helps train Army pilots to medically evacuate wounded soldiers. 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