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Old 27th Mar 2009, 19:50
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Hummingfrog
 
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My training requirements knowledge for RAF SAR may be slightly out of date but when I was on a Seaking flight the Minimum Monthly requirement was as follows:-

Day

1. 1hr wet drums inc PLB homing to drum left in sea by previous crew.
2. 1hr wet dinghy - mixture of single and Multi at Lossiemouth
3. 1hr Decks - mixture of large and small using passing ships and ex RAF patrol craft
4. 1hr situation winching (real people in odd places including stretcher lifts)
5. 1hr cliff winching (extended cable)
6. 1hr General handling - emergencies etc
7. 1hr Instrument flying inc PLB homings

Night

1. 1hr wet drums inc PLB homing to drum left in sea by previous crew.
2. 1hr wet dinghy - mixture of single and Multi at Lossiemouth
3. 1hr Decks - mixture of large and small using passing ships and ex RAF patrol craft
4. 1hr situation winching (real people in odd places including stretcher lifts)
5. 1hr cliff winching (extended cable)
6. 1hr Night circuits to "T", crossed head lamps etc

Quarterly

1. 1.5hr Day/night nav

This was the minimum training and as it was for each crew member one often did more than the minimum.

Not sure what the"industry standard" is but I would be very surprised if Jigsaw crews did any regular Multi crew liferaft training with real people. The RAF being fortunate in having plenty of volunteers to practise on. In my case it was the Nimrod crews from Kinloss off Burghead harbour doing their annual drills

HF
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