ETI offers specialized survival training for aircraft pilots and crew members. These programs provide life saving knowledge and skills to those flying in remote areas.

Pilots receive hundreds of hours of training that prepare them to avoid emergencies while flying. Many hours are also spent training to make emergency landings. But what happens after the landing? The aircraft has made it down but now what? Emergency landings take place in remote areas in almost any kind of terrain and during every season of the year. How prepared are you? As a pilot or crew member what you know and the emergency equipment you have available may save your life and the lives of others who are with you.

The aircraft survival courses offered by ETI help prepare participants to deal with these emergencies confidently. Our instructors have many years of practical experience working and teaching survival skills to a wide variety of industries and organizations and are actively involved in search and rescue. These courses are designed to provide training in the most vital survival skills for pilots, skills that can be life saving after an emergency landing. These programs are essential for private pilots, commercial pilots, crew members and any one who spends much time flying.

The courses are packed with vital information and skills that anyone associated with air travel will find essential. These training programs are taught using a fast moving hands on approach. Participants will have the opportunity to work in a realistic setting with an aircraft.

The courses give pilots and crew members a working knowledge of important survival techniques for a variety of weather and terrain conditions. Through discussion, demonstrations, simulations and hands on participation, pilots learn valuable knowledge and skills.

• Anatomy of a survival situation
• Psychology of survival
• Anticipating problems
• Food and water in hot and cold environments
• Priorities in a cold environment
• The layering system
• Hypothermia/Frostbite
• Snow shelters
• Fires and heat
• High tech heat
• Skills for a hot environment
• locating water
• Shelter in dry climates
• Using aircraft and equipment as tools for survival (Thinking like a pirate)
• When to travel
• GPS review
• Compass skills
• Signaling workshop
• Primitive signaling methods
• Using pyrotechnics
• Modern fire building techniques
• Primitive fire building techniques
• Emergency medicine for pilots
• Food for survival
• Personal survival kits
• Commercial aircraft survival kits
• Building a survival kit
• Putting it all together (thinking like a cave man)
  

Course Format

The standard courses are three days in length. Parts of the program are taught in the classroom but much of the training is done in the field. Participants should bring clothing appropriate for the location and season of the course. Each participant will receive a detailed equipment and clothing outline when they register for the program. Pre-registration is required.

Course Cost

The cost for the standard 3 day program is $450. This includes all instruction and special equipment. Cost does not include food, lodging, personal equipment and transportation during the program.

Course Location

Many of our courses are taught near Montrose, Colorado. Montrose is located in western Colorado and is served by the Montrose Regional Airport. Courses are also offered in other locations throughout the country. For specific locations please refer to the enclosed course schedule.

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