ERGRESS or Ditch the Trainer

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ERGRESS or Ditch the Trainer
Fifth District, Southern Region U.S. Coast Guard
Auxiliary Flight Safety Seminar Saturday, Dec. 1,
2001 830 to 1500 Marine Engineers Beneficial
Association) College St. Michaels, MD
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Beautiful Wheres My Plane?
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What will you DO?

• Emergency Landings Without Engine Power 
• Airspeed 75 KIAS Flaps UP
• 70 KIAS Flaps DOWN
• 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

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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

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300 Ft. / Minute ?

• HOW long before you are in the water?
• How hard will you hit?
• Water is as incompressible as?

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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

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Single Swell (15 knot wind)
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Double Swell (30 knot wind)
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(50 knot wind)
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Wind-Swell-Ditch Heading
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