The course is addressed to all the personnel involved in helicopter flights.

The training session includes theoretical and practical aspects relating to on-board rescue equipment use, survival at sea techniques, emergency handling,use of fire extinguishers and first aid operations.

Firefighting

Theoretical Aspects

• What’s combustion? – definition and examples
• Types of fuel and their characteristics
• Extinguishing agents and their characteristics

Practical Session

• Fire extinction with on-board extinguisher
• Practical sessions in closed environment (Training gallery) filled with smoke and use of protective airway devices:
• Environment with variables paths
• Operation conditions in situations of: darkness, non-toxic smoke, sound and noise (Security checks with infrared camera and instructors’ supervision)

Survival at sea

Theoretical Aspects

• Actions in water:
• Life raft preparation (video)
• Life jackets characteristics
• How to survive in cold water conditions
• How to help injured people get on a life raft
• Use of emergency devices
• Helicopter rescue

Practical sessions:

• Survival at sea techniques:
• Life jackets wearing
• Entry into water with life jacket and inflation
• Swimming with life jacket
• Survival techniques in cold water (HELP position, HUDDLE position, survival circle)
• Getting on life-rafts in unfavourable weather conditions (rain, waves, darkness)
• Help people get on the life-raft
• Survival on board
• Leaving the life-raft
• Passengers rescue through rescue line
• Recovery operations through helicopter and winch
• How to get out from a cockpit of an helicopter which has crashed into the water (with life jacket)

First-aid notions:

Theoretical Aspects

• First-aid notions in case of :
• Heart attack
• cardiac arrest
• stroke
• suffocation

Practical Sessions

• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Apt Safety Group

None

To provide all the delegates with an appropriate training concerning knowledge of on-board life-saving equipment, survival at sea techniques, recovery operations, emergencies management after ditching, fire extinguishers use and first-aid notions

Multi-year experience Instructors

FIREFIGHTING

Theoretical/Practical aspects

What’s Combustion? Type of extinguishing agents and fuels

Fire extinction with on-board fire extinguisher

Training gallery filled with smoke

SURVIVAL

Theoretical/practical Aspects

Survival techniques in water

Technique of evacuation from the aircraft simulator

FIRST AID

Theoretical/practical Aspects

First-aid principles

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation notions