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General Emergency Duties Course

Aim:
The General Emergency Duties Course provides aircrew with the in-flight and water emergency training and skills necessary to meet 14 CFR Part 121.417, Part 91 Subpart K and Part 135.331 requirements, in addition to providing the American Heart Association’s Heartsaver/Automatic
External Defibrillator (AED) protocols, and Survival System’s Aircraft Ditching Course egress and water survival objectives utilizing the Modular Egress Training Simulator (METS).

Content:
This two (2) day course is comprised of lectures, discussion, demonstrations and practical exercises to achieve these course objectives:

Cabin Emergency Response Training

  • Fire fighting in a smoke-filled cabin environment

  • Crewmember duties, responsibilities and emergency   coordination

  • Hazards to aircraft and crewmembers

  • Survival equipment carried on aircraft

  • Aircraft accident/incident history

  • Crewmember incapacitation

  • General hijacking and other unusual situations

  • Operations above 25,000 feet and rapid decompression

  • Emergency breathing systems and oxygen delivery systems

  • Proper brace positions, emergency exit jettisoning and cabin evacuation

  • Life raft deployment

Emergency Water Survival Skills (Practical)
  • Life Preserver Units (LPU)
  • Surface survival formations and hypothermia mitigation positions
  • Righting and Boarding a life raft
  • Use of surface rescue devices in use by Search and Rescue responders
  • Underwater escape training using the Modular Egress Training Simulator (METS™)

First Aid Training

  • The carrier’s first aid kit contents
  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
  • Use of an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED)

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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