aviation, ORO.FC.230 Recurring Training and Verification – Aviation.Direct

“Each flight crew member must complete recurring training and verify the location and use of all emergency and safety equipment carried on board the aircraft.” The validity period of a training and verification of emergency and safety equipment is 12 calendar months.”

The Tripl3 Sierra OG presents another training: the ESET. ESET is the abbreviation and stands for Emergency Safety and Equipment Training and has the following categories: ESET Initial and ESET Recurrent. A crew member (whether a pilot or flight attendant) must be trained on the aircraft assigned to them and on the appropriate equipment.

Each type of aircraft has differently designed doors, door types (entrance door, emergency exit, etc.) that are operated differently. Every airline and every operator uses different fire extinguishers, life jackets, smoke protection hoods (PBE – Protective Breathing Equipment), and much more. A crew member must be trained for this. In an emergency, everyone must be able to operate a fire extinguisher in a smoke-filled cabin – blind! This is the only way to save human lives in an emergency.

Do you know that in order to be certified, every aircraft must be able to evacuate in less than 90 seconds? During these tests, a representative sample of different age groups is selected, then half of the emergency exits are blocked and the machine has to be evacuated in the dark. 853 passengers from an A380.

Every move has to be perfect.

Am I giving the right commands and am I screaming loud enough? Where is my equipment in an emergency and can I put it on/put it on/operate it quickly enough?

The legislator, the EASA, European Union Aviation Safety Agency, describes the European laws very well in its Easy Access Rules (see above) and provides for an Annual Recurrent (every twelve months), whereby more specific training takes place in a three-year cycle. For example, every three years you have to extinguish fire in a specially prepared “container” and in real fire and experience the “effects of smoke in an enclosed space”.

Tripl3 Sierra OG has specialized in precisely these specialized training courses, knows the legal requirements and has a lot of equipment available to be able to hold fleet-specific training courses. Of course, individual modules, different training courses can also be booked and combined with each other. Just as the customer needs it.

At Vienna Airport, fire containers are rented for firefighting in order to be able to put out a ‘real’ fire. Here you have to feel your way through thick smoke and find a burning laptop in an overhead bin. Or in a small compartment. Or the toilet.

The number of devices in which batteries are installed will not decrease in the future. The regulations don’t apply either. The right training not only starts with the authorities, but also saves lives in an emergency.