CONTACT:  Katherine Jackson


                         MEDIA ADVISORY



NOTE: REPORTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO COVER ANY PART
OF THIS EVENT. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL MIKE GREEN AT (804) 978-
4426 (O) OR 295-2576 (H).

                   EMS CREWS TO STUDY SURVIVAL

     More than 100 emergency air medical crew members from 11
states and Canada will participate in a training program March 3 to
March 5 in Madison County. Survival '95, hosted by the University
of Virginia Pegasus Air Transport Service, will teach "hard
landing" (emergency crash landings) techniques at the Madison
County Rescue Squad building and on a 300-acre farm in Hood. 

     Instructor will also teach skills for surviving after an
escape from an aircraft crash.  Classes in signaling, fire and
shelter building, food and water sources, physical and mental
fitness, and map and compass use will be offered.

     The Pegasus has been conducting safety and survival training
for eight years.  Other participants include U.S. Marines,
Quantico; Virginia Civil Air Patrol; Appalachian Search and Rescue;
Corporate Jets Pilots, Pittsburgh; Maryland State Police, and     
 North Carolina Baptist Hospital.
                    
                        COURSE SCHEDULE 
Friday, March 3
7 a.m.-noon--Instructor course, Rescue Squad Building, Madison
County 
12:30 p.m.--Field orientation, Hood 

Saturday, March 4
7:30 a.m.- Survival lecture, Sheraton Hotel, Charlottesville
12:30 p.m.-Field orientation, Hood (overnight course, using basic
skills learned in classroom).

Sunday, March 5
8:15-9 a.m.- Wrap-up, Rescue Squad Building, Madison County



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