B737 Flashcards
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Cabin doors x 4
- Open inward and then is pushed outward and forward.
- if opened in armed mode, open without power assist.
- L1 door is spring assisted for easier opening
- Doors do not disarm automatically when opened from the outside.
- Single lane slides. will automatically inflate when armed doors are opened from inside or outside
- a safety strap is found in each door frame.
Door features
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evacuating in the evnet of an emergency
- open out and up automatically once handle has been pulled
- not fitted with slides.
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Cabin door operation
once a cabin door has been closed from the outside, CC must push down firmly on the door handle until it has reached its furthest position. ( approx. 180 degrees)
If CC are not present or do not witness the door being closed, they must complete this step at any point prior to aircraft movement.
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Arming
- Place red warning strap across the viewing window.
- Remove the girt bar from the stowage hooks on the door bustle.
- insert each end of the girt bar into the floor brackets.
- verify that the foor is armed by completing a visual check
- girt bar is attached to the floor brackets
- floor brackets clip around the bare metal at each end of the girt bar - Cross Check that the opposite door is armed and confirm by interphone call with the IC.
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Disarming
- Lift the tab on one floor bracket to remove that end of the girt bar. Repeat for the other end of the girt bar.
- Align the girt bar, centered with the door bustle and insert the slimmer points on the stowage hooks. The slimmer point of the girt bar is the bare metal directly beside the nylon(plastic) stop ring.
- verify the door is disarmed by completing a visual check:
- Girt bar sits on the stowage hooks located on the door bustle.
- stowage hooks hold the girt bar on the slimmer points.
- stowage hooks are not covering the nylon plastic stop rings or the red marking. - Remove the red warning strap from across the window and secure on fastener above viewing window.
- Cross check that the opposite door is disarmed and confirm by interphone call with IC.
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what does it do?
To advise anyone from the outside that door is armed.
The strap must be placed across the viewing window when the door is armed.
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Cabin Door Opening
seat belt sign must be off; obtain PIC’s authorization to open
- Access outside conditions
- ensure door is disarmed.
- move door handle fully in direction of arrow. Door will swing inboard.
- push door out and forward until door locks against fuselage. Use assist handles.
- place safety strap across door if no stairs or bridge are in place and pax are on board.
- remain within arm’s reach of the open door
- make mandatory annoucement
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Cabin Door Closing
Ensure door and door sills are clear of all items.
- Press down on the door lock release latch.
- grasp the assist handle on the door with one hand and the other hand grasp the assist handle on the inside of the aircraft.
- pull the door towards you.
- the door will lift off the body and enter the cabin
- pull the door inward to close.
- move door handle fully and rotate 180 degrees until the door is closed and locked.
- push down the handle to ensure door is properly closed.
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Slide gas bottle pressure gauge
found on the door bustle
CC must advise PIC immediately if the gauge needle, found in the slide gas bottle pressure gauge is not in the green zone.
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Door Opening - Emergency Operation
- Leave Jumpseat, stow it. Assess inside and outside conditions
- ensure door is armed.
- hold fixed part of the aircraft ( if possible) and move door handle fully in direction of arrow.
- Push door out fully using both hands until locked against fuselage. (expect significant resistance as slide is pulled from door bustle).
- hold fixed part of aircraft if possible and pull manual inflation handle located on the right side of the slide near the door sill. bend knees, stay low.
- Assess slide inflation and condition
- take protective position
- initiate evacuation
- re-assess slide situation.
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OWE - Operation
- Assess inside and outside
- Pull handle inward and down and release the handle
- Retrieve the evacuation rope in the window frame.
- take protective position.
- send ABP on wing to attached the evacuation rope (Water emergency only).
- Initiate evacuation.
OWE - Evacuation Rope
Evacuation ropes are attached to the inside of the AFT overwing window exit frame.
The emergency exit must be opened to expose the ropes.
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Lift Raft
@stowed in the ceiling compartments.
- 56/84 (Normal/Overload Capacity)
- Survival kits are embedded in the life-raft.
- SSK (supplemental survival kits) must be retrieved from the designated stowage compartments (L1 and OR) and placed in life-raft before release from the aircraft.
B737-Life Raft
When to retrieve Life Raft ?
Life raft will be retrieved from ceiling compartment once the aircraft has come to a complete and final stop after water contact
and
after the first flow of pax has evacuated.
B737 Life-raft
Life-Raft Operation
- Remove life-raft from stowage compartment
- lift the life-raft using the handles at each end of the carrying case and carry to the designated exit.
- unsnap pocket (located at the front end of the carrying case to retrieve the mooring line)
- attach the snap hook to a fixed part of the aircraft ( hand grip, seat frame)
- manoeuver life-raft pack through exit and place at leading edge of wing. ( if using overwing exit)
- while holding to a fixed part of the aircraft/mooring line, drop the unit into the water with one hand holding the inflation handle
- Pull on the inflation handle quickly and give a sharp tug to start the inflation
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Life Raft
When lauching a life-raft from an OWE, use the leading edge of the wing, unless it is damaged.
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Life Raft
There is an red anchor point in the lower corners of the OWE to which the mooring line can be attached.
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Life Raft Inflation takes…
15-30 seconds
*inflation is initiated by pulling on the inflation handle.
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Life-rafts are reversible and operable on both sides.
True!
B737 - Evacuation Routes
Land
Belly
All exits are used
All exits are used
B737 - Evacuation Routes
WATER
- Doors 1 and OWE only
- Slides can be used as floatation devices.
Doors 2 are not to be opened during ditching. Aft doors are expected to be below water line.
B737 - Evacuation Routes
Last resort
Flight deck
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Fuelling exits
L1 and L2 or R2
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Escape path lights
what type?
Photo-luminescent floor lighting system
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Emergency Exit Light Button
Location:
L2
lift plastic cover and press [Emergency exit lights] button.
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To charge Photo-luminescent floor lighting system
First flight of Day:
close all overhead bins, turn lights to BRIGHT for a minimum of 5 minutes.
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Emergency Communication to Flight Crew
Dial 222 on any handset
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Landing signals - approx. 3 mins
- pink light illuminates on MCL panel
- 2 tone chimes
- after receiving landing signal, CC must remove handsets from cradles and replace to extinguish pink light
MCL Panel (master call light panel)
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737 Oxygen systems
Gaseous system for:
Flight attendant stations
Lavatories
737 Oxygen systems
Generator based system over PAX seats
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Oxygen Mask Panels will open and…
- FASTEN SEAT BELT sign will illuminate and chimes will sound
- RETURN TO SEAT signs will extinguish in the lav.
- cabin lghts will come on full Bright
- fwd and aft entry lights and attendant lights will come to full bright
- pax address system volume will increase
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Some oxygen masks have streamers that must be pulled to reach the oxygen mask. The streamers has a tab at the bottom that reads PULL.
True!
B737 - oxygen system
Indication of Flow
Line flow indicator
B737 - oxygen system
Deployment Failure - Flight Attendant Stations
- Inserting the flat surface of the rod or
- any flat object in the long edge closest to the latch button of the mask panel and pulling down to release the masks.
(remember: FA can use RAIC)
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Deployment Failure - Pax seats and Lavatory
inserting a hair pin or pointed side of rod into the pin hole of the mask panel.
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What type?
Smoke Detector
Photoelectric
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Warnings of smoke detector
Chimes:
Audible warning from the detector. Chimes will be heard intermittently in the area of the affected lav
Call Lights:
- steady red alarm indicator light on detector
- flashing amber lav call light
- flashing amber lav call light on nearest MCL panel will flash.
MCL Panel (master call light panel)
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Galley Water Shut-off Valves
Each wet Galley is equipped with a water shut-off valve:
- above coffee makers in the fwd galley
- aft floor level below trash compartment in the aft galley
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Lavatory - Water Shut-off Valves
Each lav has a Water supply Shut-off Valve, @ in the lower area of the cabinet below sink. The handle is yellow with a red indicator point and it has 4 positions:
- SUPPLY ON : normal operating position. water is supplied to the faucet and toilet.
- FAUCET ONLY:
- TOILET ONLY
- OFF:
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Galley power shut off switch
There is no emergency power shut-off switch in the galleys.
to shut off galley power, CC must contact flight deck.
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Aft Lavatory doors must be locked during taxi, take off and landing.
It is to prevent the Aft Lav doors from opening into the exit path.
B737 True or False
The outboard lavatory must be locked when the cabin crew jumpseat is in use
True!
B737 MEL
A 737 cannot be dispatched with one inop door, exit or slide.
True!
B737 MEL - Dual jumpseat
A 737 cannot be dispatched with a completely inop dual jumpseat.
True!
B737 MEL
what is a inop seat position?
A dual jumpseat with a missing or inop required component, such as a safety belt or headrest, renders the seat position inop.
B737 MEL - Jumpseat - seat position
A 737 can be dispatched with an inop seat posotion, provided that…
- Affected seat position is not occupied
- Folding seat retract mechanism must operate normally
- FA displaced by inop seat occupies the pax seat which is most accessible to the inop seat, so as to most effectively perform assigned duties.
- PIC is responsible to determine the alternate seat to be occupied per the MEL.
- if the alternate seat is a pax seat, cc must ensure: CREW ONLY; the seat not occupied by a pax during flight.
B737 MEL - PA system
a 737 can be dispatched with a partly or completely inop PA system
Incharge must:
* Ensure flightdeck/cabin 2 way interphone works from all positions
* Ensure megaphones are available and functional
* Use megaphones for communication in the event of an emergency and for safety annoucements.
* Advise cc of situation and arrange signal with FA whose emergency positions are in an area where public address system is inaudible
* advise PIC that cabin crew have been briefed on all normal and emergency procedures.
B737 MEL - Cabin Handsets
A 737 can be dispatched with an inop handset,
Incharge must:
* Ensure an operative 2 way flightdeck/cabin interphone is at an operative FA seat
* Advise CC of location of inop hanset and of alternate means of communication
* Advise PIC that cc has been briefed on normal and emergency procedures.
B737 MEL - Pre-recorded systems & Safety videos
A 737 can be dispatched with an inop Pre-recorded systems & Safety video system.
True!
B737 - MEL - Interphone system
A 737 can be dispatched with a partly inop interphone
In charge must:
* Ensure an operative 2 way flightdeck/cabin interphone is at an operative FA seat
* Advise CC of location of situation and of alternate means of communication
* Advise PIC that cc has been briefed on normal and emergency procedures.
B737 - Electrical/circuit breaker panels
Circuit breakers are located in the galleys
True!
B737 - IFE
Emergency power shut off control switch located in the flight deck
Controls power to IFE.
B737 Potable Water
Potable water is distributed to lavatory, galleys and toilet from 1 tank located beneath the cabin floor.
Water is not available while the tank is being serviced.
B737 - potable water
Water and Waste quantity can be verified on….
AFT (L2) Attendant control Panel.
B737 waste
When the sensors in the waste tank indicate the tank is full. All toilets become inop to prevent tank from overfilling.
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LAV INOP light at the aft attendant panel will illuminate.
B737 waste
If the sensor (attached to the upper part of the waste tank) fails,
the CLEAN CHECK SENSOR light at the aft attendant station will illuminate. indicating system maintenance is required.
B737 Cabin Temperature
B737 Cabin Temperature is controlled by…
Flight Deck
CC must contact flight deck to adjust cabin temp.
B737 Attendant panel - LCD Cooling system
The FWD and AFT panels have an over-temperature indicator light.
LCD cooling vents are located under the ACP, directly above jumpseat.
amber light indicates if the ACP has failed or has an over-temperature condition.
flashing amber light indicates the ACP is not available due to an internal fault and has initiated a shutdown.
B737 - ACP -Attendant Control Panel
Each ACP controls the entire cabin
or
by class (J/Y)
True!
Example: can control lighting by fwd zone/aft zone and set to [Boarding/deplane] theme.
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Passenger services functions (IFE, PEF Power) are controlled from the….
FWD (L1) ACP
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LAV INOP on ACP means..
lav vacuum system has been disabled due to the waste tank reaching its maximum capacity.
B737 Master Call Light Panel
Amber Flashing
Triple LO Chime
Lavatory Smoke detection
B737 Interphone
There is no override feature or calling priority — True
If more than one call is initiated, all applicable callers are connected via a party line.
B737 - Verbal
How to release slide from the aircraft:
- Lift flap and pull handle. The slide remains attached to the aircraft by a lanyard until automatically or manually detached.
- the lanyard will automatically detach from the aircraft to prevent damage to the slide if the aircraft sinks
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How to mannually detach the lanyard from the aircraft girt end of slide:
Release the velcro tab and pull the lanyard from the metal ring.
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To provide sufficient illumination in the AFT lav area, the AFT work area light should be kept ON throughout the flight.
True
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