Robert Purdy is one of about 20 Life Flight pilots who use their years of experience, often through military service, to streamline flights while specially trained paramedics and nurses provide life-saving care in the cramped cabin behind them.
Memorial Hermann Life Flight pilot Robert Purdy, talks about the Life Flight helicopter at the Baytown Airport on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. Purdy is a former Army pilot who served 26 years with three tours in Afghanistan an two tours in Iraq. He’s been with Memorial Hermann since 2016.Robert Purdy has developed a sixth sense about the weather.
“You almost have to have a spidey sense,” he says. “If I’m doing a call down on the Bolivar Peninsula, and you see fog is forecast, it’s all part of talking to your crews.” Born in Malvern, Ark., Purdy’s obsession with aircraft started with regular visits to naval air stations along the Gulf Coast with his father and a fascination with the 1970s TV military drama Black Sheep Squadron. He went to flight school in 1991 and for two years flew Cobra attack helicopters for the Army in Korea.
“There’s some difficult situations we get into ... but he has an absolutely relaxed, calm tone of voice. Complete confidence,” Pegg said. “The people in the back trust him with everything on the line.” The medical crew typically receives minimal details about the scene before arrival. That was the case May 18, 2018, when a voice over the radio told them to respond to a shooting at Sante Fe High School. They were tasked with picking up a man who had been shot and flying him to the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Pegg, who was working that day, said he knew “it was going to be real.
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