After over a year of coordinating with many of your organizations to gather input and information, the FAA Small Airplane Directorate has finally released a web based training presentation for first responders at a small aircraft or helicopter accident scene. Because of all of your help, this collection of material has grown into a very comprehensive yet concise collection of safety information. Much of the material may also be of value to anyone that may be likely to come across an accident scene, such as airport/aviation work force, law enforcement, search and rescue organizations, accident investigators, recovery workers, etc. Many of your organizations have planned to include this link on your websites, please do so and share this material with your organizations as you see fit. It still has some items that need slight revision, however the bulk of the material is there and it has a solid core of information. The FAA First Responders Training can be found at the following site: http://www.faa.gov/aircraft/gen_av/first_responders/ and we also anticipate a link from the following site: http://www.faa.gov/aircraft/safetyfirst_responders/ In conjunction with this, I would like to note that additional first responder safety information from the individual manufacturers is being collected by the General Aviation Manufacturer Association. The FAA cannot identify manufacturer-specific information, so we have to use an outside organization to do this. GAMA is in the process of collecting this information(typically manufacturer links) and posting it at: http://www.gama.aero/firstresponders . If you are a manufacturer or even another professional organization that may have a collection of appropriate, public safety information, please consider sharing this with GAMA. The following provides a brief overview of the training: The training material is split into 5 Modules: Module 1 Systems and Material Hazards
Module 2 Aircraft Type Familiarization and Mission Specific Hazards
Module 3 Command and Recovery
Module 4 Ballistic Parachute System Familiarization
Module 5 Systems and Material Hazards for Rescuers Note: Future Module 6 (still in work) will address safely working around a running helicopter, including landing zone selection, hazard areas around a running helicopter, and landing zone protocol.
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