Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (HUET)

Description

This Course is meant to prepare learners who intend to travel to and from offshore oil and gas installations and vessels by helicopter by providing specific training in pre-flight and in-flight requirements and equipping learners with the basic emergency response knowledge and skills required in the event of a helicopter emergency – with a specific focus on escaping from a helicopter following ditching. 

What will you learn

• 1. Donning an aviation transit suit, aviation lifejacket and EBS and conducting EBS integrity checks.

• 2. Actions to take in preparation for a helicopter ditching and an emergency landing.

• 3. Actions following a controlled emergency descent to a dry landing with evacuation via a nominated exit.

• 4. Deployment, operation and breathing from EBS in a pool utilising personal air prior to HUET exercises (delegate to experience positive and negative pressure created by the body orientation in water).

• 5. Actions following a controlled ditching on water (including deploying EBS and, on instruction from aircrew, operation of a push out window) and evacuate through a nominated exit to an aviation liferaft.

• 6. Assist others where possible in carrying out initial actions on boarding the aviation liferaft, to include mooring lines, deploying the sea anchor, raising the canopy and raft maintenance.

• 7. Escaping through a window opening which is underwater, from a partially submerged helicopter (without deploying EBS or operation of a push out window).

• 8. Escaping through a window opening which is underwater, from a partially submerged helicopter (deploying, operating and breathing from EBS equipment but without operation of a push out window).

• 9. Escaping through a window opening which is underwater, from a partially submerged helicopter (deploying, operating and breathing from EBS equipment and operation of a push out window).

• 10. Escaping through a window opening which is underwater, from a capsized helicopter (without deployment of EBS or operation of a push out window).

• 11. Escaping through a window opening which is underwater, from a capsized helicopter (deploying and operating EBS on the surface prior to capsize but without operation of a push out window).

• 12. Inflating an aviation lifejacket and deploying a spray visor in water

• 13. Boarding an aviation liferaft from water.

Requirements