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Ditching and Egress with the Trainer

Ditching and Egress with the Trainer. Fifth District, Southern Region U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flight Safety Seminar Saturday, June 7, 2003 Elizabeth City Coast Guard Station Elizabeth City NC. Egress Training for boaters. Beautiful Where’s My Plane?. The Big Ones Too!.

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Ditching and Egress with the Trainer

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  1. Ditching and Egress with the Trainer Fifth District, Southern Region U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flight Safety Seminar Saturday, June 7, 2003 Elizabeth City Coast Guard Station Elizabeth City NC

  2. Egress Training for boaters

  3. Beautiful Where’s My Plane?

  4. The Big Ones Too!

  5. OH MY!!! Panic Attack • Ditching phase • Time from OH MY to hitting the water (seconds at low altitude) • Egress phase • Getting out of the way of the airplane as it goes down. • Survival phase • If you are lucky you are in the water – for how long?

  6. What will you DO? • Emergency Landings Without Engine Power  • Airspeed – 75 KIAS Flaps UP 70 KIAS Flaps DOWN What is best distance speed (75) and lowest sink rate (60) • Mixture – Idle Cut OFF • Fuel Selector Value OFF • Ignition Switch OFF • Wing Flaps – AS REQUIRED (FULL Recommended) • Master Switch OFF • Doors – UNLATCH PRIOR TO TOUCHDOWN • Touchdown – SLIGHTLY TAIL LOW • Brakes – APPLY HEAVILY

  7. Best Defense is Preparation • Think about what could happen?

  8. Best Defense is Preparation • Think about what could happen? • Plan and communicate that plan before it is needed!

  9. Best Defense is Preparation • Think about what could happen? • Plan and communicate that plan before it is needed! • Who owns your plane?

  10. Best Defense is Preparation • Think about what could happen? • Plan and communicate that plan before it is needed! • Who owns your plane? • It is ok to swim away from the insurance companies / Coast Guard’s plane!

  11. DITCHING • Radio – TRANSMIT MAYDAY on 121.5 giving location and intentions and SQUAWK 7700 • Heavy Objects SECURE or JETTISON • Flaps -- 20 º to FULL • Power – ESTABLISH 300 FT/MIN DESCENT at 65 KIAS • Approach – High Winds, Heavy Seas – INTO THE WIND • Light Winds, Heavy Swells – PARALLEL TO SWELLS • Note if no power is available, approach at 75 KIAS with flaps up or at 70 KIAS with 10 º flaps. • Cabin Doors – UNLATCH • Touchdown -- LEVEL ATTITUDE AT ESTABLISHED DESCENT • Face – CUSHION at touchdown with folder coat. • Airplane – EVACUATE through cabin doors. If necessary, open window and flood cabin to equalize pressure so doors can be opened. • Life Vests and Raft – INFLATE out side of cabin

  12. 300 Ft. / Minute ? • HOW long before you are in the water? • How hard will you hit? • Water is as incompressible as?

  13. 300 Ft. / Minute ? • HOW long before you are in the water? • At 1200 to 1500 ft maybe 3 minutes • How hard will you hit? • At 300 ft/min the same as jumping from 45 ft • Water is as incompressible as? • Steel

  14. Single Swell (15 knot wind)

  15. Double Swell (30 knot wind)

  16. (50 knot wind)

  17. Wind-Swell-Ditch Heading

  18. What are you going to do with your 3 minutes?www.cgaux.comwww.equipped.org/ditchtoc.htmwww.equipped.org/ditchtraining_2.htm

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