Funding for this research was provided by:
European HEMS & Air Ambulance Committee e.V.
Article History
Received: 18 May 2018
Accepted: 23 October 2019
First Online: 6 November 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: EHAC represents European air rescue organizations who favor a liberalization of certain current European regulations on maximum professional pilot age. Freedom from interference in any stage of the research process was laid down contractually between EHAC and the research project team, represented by the manuscript authors. EHAC had no role in the formulation of the study design, the collection, analysis and interpretation of the data, the writing of the report, and the decision to submit the paper for publication.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.