Ditching Flashcards
Flotation equipment bag pre flight check?
Check blue seal
If broken inform ISM and check all life jackets have vinyl strap intact.
Infant life jacket requirements?
Small child weighing less than 35 pounds.
Infant life jacket differences?
Retrieval strap
Life line (used for attaching child to adult)
Infant life jacket location and amount?
Flotation equipment bag. L5 and R5.
12 each bag
Baby flotation cot location and amount?
Flotation equipment bag
L5 and R5
4 each bag
Total 8
Contents of additional survival pack (yellow bag)
3 desalting kits
6 boxes of emergency rations (inside candy/chewing gum)
1 water bag
Additional survival pack location and pre flight check?
All doors except 3
Blue seal
How to deploy slide raft at doors 12,34?
Assess aircraft attitude by looking through door window and assessing the level of the cabin floor
.Mode selector in automatic
.Open door handle rearwards
.Check slide raft for proper deployment and inflation
. Direct passengers
. Check area
. Evacuate
Where is the quick release handle?
At the doorsill end of the slide raft
If slide raft deploys at steep angle what should you do?
Release the raft first.
Passengers may be advised to jump on raft
After evacuation cabin crew shall get to the raft and cast off.
Door 3 ditching evacuation?
Place mode selector to manual redirect passenger
Check area
Evacuate
If u must open door 3 in a ditching what should you do?
Open in manual
Deploy escape straps at the upper forward corner of the door frame.
Connect them to yellow bracket on the edge of the wings.
Direct pax onto wings with life jackets inflated. Hold on and follow escape strap.
Life jacket pre flight check
Vinyl strap intact