Originally Posted by
Jayand
Aside from the physical act of pulling the handle and all the decisions and timing that go with that what about the lack of Survival training non aircrew have for these backseat flights? What if an ejection occured over the sea, are they familiar/well practiced in the skills of sea survival? Annual pool drills? Liferafts, PSP's etc? The enquiry into this I suspect will be messy.
According to a posting [14th Feb 2018] on the Reds facebook page
This week the 2018 Red Arrows Circus engineers carried out their Aircrew Maritime Survival training with expert tuition from personnel at the Defence Survival Training Organisation at RAF St Mawgan. The drills involved practicing in the pool prior to carrying out the final assessment in the very cold, rough sea off Plymouth Harbour.