The Helo dunker course provides all the participants with knowledge of rescue equipment on board helicopters, sea survival techniques and rescue operations.
Theoretical and Practical Aspects
Survival at Sea
- Throwing of self-inflating rescue raft from the side of the pool (in group)
- Entry into water from a 3-meter-high platform
- Life jacket underwater activation
- Survival swimming
- Help position
- Huddle position
- Survival Circle
- Self-inflating raft reaching
- Self-inflating raft boarding
- On-board positioning
- How to help others get on the self-inflating raft
- Self-inflating raft leaving
- Collective simulation consisting in leaving the self-inflating raft in night environment with waves and rain.
- Straightening of the self-inflating raft
- Recovery of man overboard with rescue line
- Recovery of man overboard through winch
Escape from the helicopter (simulator “HELO DUNKER”)
Simulation within the Helo Dunker aircraft simulator (equipped with 2 front seats and 6 back seats) 7 individual sessions in diurnal and nocturnal conditions, with and without waves (wave generator level 2 minimum) , with and without rain
- Explanation and practical demonstration of:
- Impact position
- Fastening and unfastening 2 and 4 points belts
- Evacuation procedures in case of ditching
- Controlled water landing, windows removal after the impact, escape from the helicopter and boarding on a self-inflating rescue raft in nocturnal conditions, with waves and rain.
- Ditching with vertical trim maintenance:
- Evacuation without windows removal
- Evacuation with windows removal after water impact but before complete sinking
- Evacuation with windows removal after water impact and complete sinking, in nocturnal conditions, with waves
- Evacuation from the helicopter after sinking, by swimming underwater
- Ditching and capsizing:
- Evacuation without windows removal
- Evacuation with windows removal after water impact but before complete sinking
- Evacuation with windows removal after water impact and complete sinking, in nocturnal conditions, with waves
- Evacuation from the helicopter after sinking, by swimming underwater
- Rescue of a person who has been trapped inside the helicopter after the capsizing
To provide all the delegates with knowledge of on-board life-saving equipment, sea survival techniques, recovery operations and emergencies management after ditching
Multi-year experience instructors
Theoretical and Practical Aspects:
General principles and sea survival techniques
Emergency equipment present on helicopters
Rescue Operations
Use of life-saving appliances
Actions to be executed in case of:
- Controlled emergency landing on water
- ditching
- ditching and helicopter capsizing
Rescue techniques in case of personnel trapped inside the helicopter
