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Aircraft Ditching C

Aim:
To provide all aircraft crew and passengers traveling over water with the knowledge and skills necessary to react to an aircraft-ditching emergency, endure a sea survival situation and participate in their own rescue.

Content:
This one-day course consists of both classroom and practical sessions in our training tank including:
  • Hazards to aircraft and personnel during over-water operations

  • Safety and survival equipment requirements and utilization

  • Pre-ditching considerations and procedures

  • Emergency ditching and evacuation procedures

  • Smoke and fire in the cabin/cockpit

  • Emergency surface evacuation and liferaft deployment and procedures

  • Hover emergency evacuation (military and rotary-wing personnel)

  • Aircraft underwater escape training using the Modular Egress Training Simulator (METS™)

  • Water survival skills including lifevest use, group formations, cold water survival techniques

  • Recovery of water-stranded victims by devices used in helicopter and vessel rescues


Underwater Emergency Egress Skills



Rescue/Recovery Skills


Smoke and Fire Drills

For more information, please contact us at:

Survival Systems USA, Inc.
144 Tower Avenue,
Groton, CT 06340

Phone: 860-405-0002
Toll-free: 888-386-5371 Fax: 860-405-0006