Handling emergencies
Have a plan
- Taking off with small problems could lead to bigger ones
- Aviate, navigate, handle the emergency and communicate.
- Aviate
Fly the plane
Avoid any kind of terrain.
- navigate
- avoid any kind of terrain
- know where you are going
- handle the emergency
- Rare situations may require the captain’s judgment and experience.
- Having a plan can determine how you will take care of an emergency
- Take it easy ‘stay cool man’
- Five step emergency procedure
- Gather information
- Perception on what is detected.
- Decision to comply
- Communicate
- Communicate with ATC, crew and cabin
- Give the passengers as much assurance as possible
- Be aware of passenger initiated evacuation.
- Give direct and forceful commands in a situation where passenger may be stuck their own fear.
911
When things go wrong during a flight, the first action is to inform the captain.
Exposure
- Having alertness at its peak
- Review approach chart and arrival information and be prepared for landing.
- Mentally review some of the emergencies that could happen.
- Four critical phases of a flight: takeoff, initial climb, final approach and landing.
Scenario
- While on the climb at low altitudes in full IMC, one of the engine has a catastrophic fail and there’s a fire.
- The necessity to quickly address multiple issues arises.
Considerations
- First thing to be done is to get the airplane under control; fly it
- Next thing will be to navigate from any kind of terrain. The best action would be to ask ATC for a quick level off and heading to follow to avoid the terrain.
- A route for return landing should be developed
- When there is free time, flight attendants and cabin should be informed of the technical malfunction and return landing.
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