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

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Enviro-Tech International

P.O. Box 2135 

Montrose, CO 81402

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