Preflighting Your Passenger for Water Flight
By Amy LabodaASC
Tampa FSDO
Passenger Preflight—Seating
• Assess via weight and balance• Determine who can sit right seat
with minimum pilot interference
Assess who can open an exit if called upon to do so
• Determine who can exit with emergency gear (raft)
• Explain how to use it
Your Speech
• If you’ve been flying on airlines (or for them) you know it by heart
• How to don the PFD (should be wearing if over water time starts immediately after takeoff)
• How to use PFD• Pouch or Airline
type?
How to buckle and unbuckle a seat belt
• How to open and close doors and windows
• Location and operation of the fire extinguisher
• How to operate seats, forward and backward, to enhance egress.
• That the seat back should be upright for takeoff and landing.
• The location of each normal and emergency exit.
• The operation of each normal and emergency exit by explanation and demonstration
• To leave carry-on items behind• To establish "situational awareness."
Bracing positions for a hard landing
Survival Tools to have attached to you (or a passenger)
Statistics Don’t Lie• 95% of accidents in the water are
survivable-as far as the landing impact goes…
• Nearly as many passengers survive aircraft accidents in general
• When interviewed, an overwhelming majority of passengers say that they remembered the preflight briefing given by the pilot/flight attendant and it saved their lives.
•Smoking
•Seat belts / Shoulder Harnesses
•Seats
•Exits
•Carry Ons
•Situational Awareness
•Flotation Gear
•Fire Extinguishers
•Survival Equipment
•ELT
•Brace position
A Sample Checklist