Looks like going with 139s... 

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/03/21/florida-keys-officials-consider-spending-52-million-on-new-medical-helicopters/

Hard pass on that action.

More pilots.

A169 - One Pilot

A139 - Two Pilot

Last time I applied they were offering $82k a year living in one of the most expensive areas of the United States

thats Trauma Star, not Trauma Hawk

It's actually Trauma Scar.

in almost all the larger helicopters operators. access to a tax base. then cost is of no consequence.

unless you can tell me how this is different than a fire department. 

To collect commercial revenues at the same time they are collecting tax revenues!

UNFAIR COMEPTITION!   M0N0P0LY POWER!

monroe county air ambulance is free to residents. I have no idea what "commercial revenues". It sounds like a way better system than what most of the rest of the country has. 

No Out-of-Pocket Costs for Monroe County Residents

There are no out-of-pocket costs for County residents who use the life-saving service. In the past, private air ambulances in the Keys have charged County residents tens of thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket costs for transport to mainland hospitals.

Like Maryland, Virginia, etc, that'll be the most expensive free ride you ever take.

are very low in Florida. Even Monroe county. You have no idea what you're talking about.

The cost of the transport, dummy. The cost of operating that type aircraft. Not the "free ride" that particular individual recieved. That is pretty cheap for that one individual...because all their neighbors were forced to pitch in to pay for that fancy ride, but then didn't get one.

You think their operating budget is the same or more than a commercial operator flying a 407?

You think just because it's tax money, that maybe the same dollars stretch further? Far enough that they can operate that high dollar equipment at the same cost? That they're super efficient or something? Are you new here?

Nothing the government "provides" for you is cheap or efficient. There's no incentive to do so. Waste, fraud, and abuse. Stop asking them to do it. Duh.

... their public helicopter they use for law enforcement, utility flights, highway patrol, etc.    They are bilking the general public paying into their insurance plans to pay for their public use aircraft operations.   

you have to pay the fire department to put out a fire at your house or pay public works to plow your road or pay the army to go fight a war. the army won't send you a bill lol

you somehow figured out that taxes pay for it.

Been around a while. Might want to figure out why there isn't any competition down here. How come AMC, PHI, Metro, AEL or any others fail to exist down here? The county would have gladly subsidized AMC if they would have gotten their act together before it was too late. By the time AMC management figured it out it was too late. And by the way AMC wasn't kicked out of the county. LKMC asked them to leave their pad due to the bad publicity AMC had caused. And yes, our pay is low and we're busy. This isn't a retirement job anymore. And no taxes have never paid for this operation, and yes, as a 135, the billing takes place just like any other 135. Anyone of the HAA operators could make it work here, even today. And if you think it's because the county has monopolized the area, you're wrong. 

Go bark at AMC, they messed it up. Lets see what you really know. How much did AMC ask for from the county at the end to operate? If you don't know that. Have a nice day.

Since they're buying new aircraft, maybe you should apply. From what you're saying, it looks to be a sweet flying job in couple of years.

They need to get flight crews that aren't junkies first. 

Finding non junkies in the Keys?  That's why they are there in the first place.  99% of working class in Monroe county has the Keys Disease of some sort.  

taxpayer money.