Training/Helicopter
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== Course description == | == Course description == | ||
Revision as of 14:48, 30 May 2013
Helicopter Operations for Ground SAR is proposed course (not yet developed). An industry partner is encouraging this training and offering to fund it.
Compare with the shorter training provided in SAR Fundamentals:
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Course description
Potential skills/subjects covered by this course. Not all of these may be included in the course.
- types and capabilities of helicopters
- basic operations and safety
- safe approach/exit
- what not to touch, not to approach
- bringing hazardous equipment (bear spray, flares)
- communicating with the pilot
- crash procedures
- spotting from air (the search component)
- ground-to-air communications (e.g. helicopter directs teams on the ground to the subject)
- Landing Zone / helispot support (e.g. team on ground preps for extracting subject by air)
- Landing Zone Officer duties
- identifying and preparing a helicopter landing site
- hand signals
- hover exits
- sling loading gear
- supporting HETS (Helicopter External Transport System / Human External Cargo)
Need
Runnings
- probably summer or fall 2013
Suppliers
- none yet identified
- CASARA considering
