HELO DUNKER

The Helo dunker course provides all the participants with knowledge of rescue equipment on board helicopters, sea survival techniques and rescue operations.

Theoretical and Practical Aspects

Survival at Sea

• Throwing of self-inflating rescue raft from the side of the pool (in group)
• Entry into water from a 3-meter-high platform
• Life jacket underwater activation
• Survival swimming
• Help position
• Huddle position
• Survival Circle
• Self-inflating raft reaching
• Self-inflating raft boarding
• On-board positioning
• How to help others get on the self-inflating raft
• Self-inflating raft leaving
• Collective simulation consisting in leaving the self-inflating raft in night environment with waves and rain.
• Straightening of the self-inflating raft
• Recovery of man overboard with rescue line
• Recovery of man overboard through winch

Escape from the helicopter (simulator “HELO DUNKER”)

Simulation within the Helo Dunker aircraft simulator (equipped with 2 front seats and 6 back seats) 7 individual sessions in diurnal and nocturnal conditions, with and without waves (wave generator level 2 minimum) , with and without rain

• Explanation and practical demonstration of:
• Impact position
• Fastening and unfastening 2 and 4 points belts
• Evacuation procedures in case of ditching
• Controlled water landing, windows removal after the impact, escape from the helicopter and boarding              on a self-inflating rescue raft in nocturnal conditions, with waves and rain.
• Ditching with vertical trim maintenance:
• Evacuation without windows removal
• Evacuation with windows removal after water impact but before complete sinking
• Evacuation with windows removal after water impact and complete sinking, in nocturnal conditions, with waves
• Evacuation from the helicopter after sinking, by swimming underwater
• Ditching and capsizing:
• Evacuation without windows removal
• Evacuation with windows removal after water impact but before complete sinking
• Evacuation with windows removal after water impact and complete sinking, in nocturnal conditions, with waves
• Evacuation from the helicopter after sinking, by swimming underwater

• Rescue of a person who has been trapped inside the helicopter after the capsizing

APT certification

None

To provide all the delegates with knowledge of on-board life-saving equipment, sea survival techniques, recovery operations and emergencies management after ditching

Multi-year experience instructors

Theoretical and Practical Aspects:

General principles and sea survival techniques

Emergency equipment present on helicopters

Rescue Operations

Use of life-saving appliances

Actions to be executed in case of:

• Controlled emergency landing on water
• ditching
• ditching and helicopter capsizing

Rescue techniques in case of personnel trapped inside the helicopter