Water Ditching Survival Training - Planning
As mentioned in a previous post, to make a transatlantic flight you need to be prepared for the, hopefully, unlikely water ditching. I spent some time the past couple weeks looking into the gear and training I would need. For training I found a very timely AOPA article titled Ditching, Ditching! Prepping for a Water Landing . It appears in their News & Video section with a September 1, 2017 date by Thomas A. Horne. I got some valuable information from the article, especially the name of a highly regarded survival training company. The company is Survival Systems, Inc. located in Groton Connecticut. They run several training programs throughout the year. The one I'm planning to take is their ASET1 training. It's a 1 day, 8 hour training program that teaches you the fundamentals on how to survive an aviation water ditching. The most appealing part of their training is that, the second half of the day, you are actually in their egress training simulator, in a pool of