Production operators are required to take a water survival training course by OSHA. You get in a helicopter over a pool at a training facility, they flip it over and into the pool. You have to swim out.

Never done it but operators HATE it

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Posted by G2160

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Posted on 7/5/19 at 9:50 am to the_watcher

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Production operators are required to take a water survival training course by OSHA. You get in a helicopter over a pool at a training facility, they flip it over and into the pool. You have to swim out.

And if you don’t know to wait until the water pressure inside the cabin equalizes with the outside, THEN knock the window out, THEN unbuckle your seatbelt, you probably aren’t getting out.

This assumes you’re still at least conscious when hitting the water.

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Posted by NorthEndZone

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Posted on 7/5/19 at 9:56 am to the_watcher

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Production operators are required to take a water survival training course by OSHA. You get in a helicopter over a pool at a training facility, they flip it over and into the pool. You have to swim out.

Never done it but operators HATE it

I did it once many years ago when I was much younger, in a single seat simulator with no sides, in daylight, in a swimming pool, with people there to help me if something went wrong, and I knew that I had nothing to really worry about. I'm a decent swimmer but not the most comfortable in water. I survived but it wasn't fun at all.

This was in darkness, in open water, knowing that they were in trouble before hitting the water with time for panic to set in. I would have to be lucky to survive that.

The HUET training in a full simulator is no fun at all from people I've talked with about it.

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