WET DRILL – INITIAL FLIGHT CREW TRAINING

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 student must don a lifejacket

Manually inflate the jacket.

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

Out of the water students must deflate the jacket, take it off, throw it into the water. Each student 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.