Aeromedical Survival Training
Aeromedical teams receive hundreds of hours of training that prepare them to deal with the difficult medical emergencies they face on each flight. Often, aeromedical crews are required to respond to calls in remote areas, which include challenges related to cold and hot environments. Pilots are highly trained to avoid emergencies while flying, but occasionally, unforeseen or unavoidable circumstances arise that cause an aircraft to make a hard landing. These landings take place in remote areas, in a variety of terrain conditions, and during every season of the year. As an aeromedical pilot or crew member, how prepared are you to deal with a survival emergency? What you know and the emergency equipment you have available may save your life and the lives of others who are with you.
Enviro-Tech International’s aeromedical survival training program meets the needs of these pilots and crew members. The training prepares crew members by teaching the essential concepts of survival in a variety of terrain and environmental conditions. With over 40 years of experience, we’ve developed a unique and interactive approach to helping people learn these vital skills. Our courses are packed with valuable lifesaving information, skills, and techniques.
The training emphasizes an organized approach to safety and survival, teaching important priorities such as shelter, fire and heat, water, food, signaling, staying where you are, and when to go for help. The courses also explore other important aspects of survival. Beginning with what happens during a survival emergency, the short-term psychological stresses that play a role in decision-making and panic, individual and group dynamics, injuries and how they affect survival planning, hypothermia and cold injuries, and essential survival equipment and kits.
We specialize in on-site training programs. We travel to our client’s location. This reduces travel and training budgets and provides a training experience that is more relevant to participants. All of our training programs are tailored to meet your specific requirements.
The course can be presented in a 1-, 2-, or 3-day format. Custom courses of any length are available. Multi-day courses begin with the first day in the classroom, with the remaining time spent in the field working on skills.
PREPARING FOR POST CRASH SURVIVAL in an AEROMEDICAL ENVIRONMENT
FLYING OVER WATER
Ditching
Water Egress
Required items
Life rafts
Emergency gear
Survival suits
Signaling on the water
FLYING IN COLD ENVIRONMENTS
Survival Gear for the cold
Ice hazards
Avalanche safety
Cold water emergencies
AIRCRAFT SURVIVAL KITS
Primary categories of need
Customizing a kit
Build your own kit
Required Items
Keeping your kit updated
LEARNING TO IMPROVISE
Thinking like a modern caveman
Salvage, Scavenge, and Simplify
Putting it all together
Never give in, and never give up
Improvising with aeromedical gear
Enduring and staying alive
COLD and HOT WEATHER SURVIVAL PRIORITIES
THE ANATOMY OF A SURVIVAL SITUATION
Fears and anxiety
Skills vs. will to survive
Controlling Panic
Learning to improvise
SURVIVAL IN COLD CLIMATES
Types of body heat loss
Understanding the layering system
Hypothermia
Frostbite
Water and food requirements
SURVIVAL IN HOT CLIMATES
Hyperthermia and heat illness
Water requirements
Ration sweat not water
Using shade for survival
FIRE and HEAT
Principles of fire making
Heat, signaling and security
Primitive methods
High-tech heat
SHELTER
Principles of shelter making
Lean to
Natural shelters
Snow shelters
Use the aircraft as shelter
SIGNALING
General concepts
Active and passive methods
Primitive methods
Modern methods and pyrotechnics
TRAVEL
Evaluating the situation
When to leave the aircraft
Direction finding methods
GPS and compass review
Using PLB’s satellite tech
SURVIVAL SKILLS FOR PILOTS AND PASSENGERS
Contact us today for a cost quote for an Aeromedical Crew Survival Training Program for your organization
Call: (970) 209-1489
Enviro-Tech International
P.O. Box 2135
Montrose, CO 81402
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