Emergency Equipment Flashcards
What are the Emergency Equipment on the aircraft
1) Fire Extinguishers
2) Hand-operated Fire extinguishers
3) Portable Oxygen Bottles
4) Fire Fighter’s Smoke Masks
5) Quick Don Oxygen Mask
6) Emergency Locator Transmitter
7) First Aid Kits
8) Hand Axes
9) Emergency Exit Lights
10) life Rafts
11) Emergency Escape Ropes
Describe the Fire Extinguishing System
1) 5 Valves total (1 to each engine and 1 to GTC)
2) The Valve points to the last Fire Handle Pulled
3) 3 position toggle switch controls discharge of AGENT.
4) The Agent is not effective until a fire handle is pulled.
How many Fire Extinguishers are installed on the aircraft, for internal fires?
Where are they Located?
What color are they painted?
Five
1) One Forward of 245
2) One Aft of 245
3) One at AMT station
4) one at assistant firefighter station
5) One aft of right paratroop door.
They are painted green
How many Hand Axes are installed on the aircraft?
Where are they located?
What color are they painted?
Should you leave them behind in a crash?
5 hand-axes
They are collocated with Fire Extinguishers
painted yellow
don’t leave behind, they are helpful for survival
How many Portable Oxygen Bottles are there?
Where are they located?
Where is the recharge port?
6 Total
Two on flight deck, (Pilot and Co-Pilot Stations)
1) AMT Station,
2) Asst Firefighter station,
3) Aft of Right Paratroop door
4) Aft of Left paratroop door
Where are the quick-Don O2 masks Located?
How many are there total?
What height must oxygen be immediately available?
FL250 - Oxygen must be immediately available (Quick Don Satisfies this.
There are 4 total
1) Pilot
2) Co-Pilot
3) Nav
4) Eng
How many First Aid Kits are there?
Where are they located?
12 total.
2 on the end of each mission equipment rack (10 total)
2 forward of FS 245
Where are the Escape Ropes Located?
Is it ok to just Jump out of the overhead escape hatch and hold on to the rope?
1) They are aft of each overhead escape hatch
No, the rope is EXTREMELY long, and therefore you must climb out using the rope.
How many and what type of life rafts are on the aircraft?
where are they located?
If you are in a crash/ditching… what happens?
Where are the life raft release handles?
1) There is space for four 20 man life rafts
2) Normally, only two 20 man life rafts are carried.
They are located in the top center wing, trailing edge.
In a ditching – they automatically inflate, when the handles are released. They are secured to the aircraft by a rope.
There are six life raft release handles,
1) 2 are aft of forward escape hatch.
2) 2 are aft of right paratroop door.
3) 2 are located on the upper wing, inboard
Where is the Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT located)
How does it work?
What frequencies does it transmit?
What are the modes and where is that switch?
1) In the dorsal fin of the aircraft
2) It sense amplitude and duration of forces on the aircraft and transmits a signal if those levels are breached.
3) 243 and 121.5
4) 3 modes, in auto (as above), in test (test the circuitry and RF signal), in reset (cancels any emissions)
According the 11-301 v1, table 7.2, what will an EC-130 have on it for emergency equipment?
1) 15 parachutes
2) 2 restraint harnesses
3) 15 Survival Kits
4) two 20-man life rafts
5) 15 LPUs,
6) 15 Anti-Exposure suits
7) 4 quick don masks with goggles
What is the Propeller Danger Area?
1) Anything Aft within Wingtip to Wing Tip of Aircraft
2) 10 Feet Within the Aircraft
What is the danger area for the engine Turbine?
1) Extends wingtip to Wingtip
The Personnel radiation for the NAV RADAR hazard is what?
1) APN 54
2) Extends 40 feet
3) 120 degree cone from the nose of aircraft
The Personnel radiation for the mission system is what?
1) 360 degrees around the aircraft.
2) 100 Feet
