WET DRILL – INITIAL FLIGHT CREW TRAINING

AMC1 ORO.FC.220

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This is a comprehensive drill to cover all ditching procedures where flotation equipment is carried on the aircraft.

This includes:

The actual donning of a lifejacket
The actual inflation of a lifejacket
Demonstration or audio-visual presentation of any life rafts/ slide-rafts and associated equipment carried on the aircraft
Time-available ditching – considerations – passenger briefing
No time-available ditching
Passenger evacuation in water

THE COURSE COMPRISES OF

Demonstration of the types of lifejackets carried. Their use for adults and children.

Demonstration of Infant lifejackets/life cots if carried on the aircraft.

Each cadet must don a lifejacket

Manually inflate the jacket.

In the water, cadets must work in pairs to demonstrate incapacitation.

Out of the water cadets must deflate the jacket, take it off, throw it into the water. Each cadet must get back into the water and practice donning a jacket in the water and then inflate it manually.

Demonstration of commands and exit techniques for overwing emergency exits.

Water survival techniques; group together, supporting the arms, knees up.