B741 From Canada, joined Jan 2004, 716 posts, RR: 1 Posted (8 years 5 months 8 hours ago) and read 2821 times:
I noticed that Airbus talks about sea swells and how to judge the sea when ditching in their A310 manual. But Air Canada does not mention this in their emergency manuals for the A319,320 and 321. Why the difference in this very important emergency procedure?
320tech From Turks and Caicos Islands, joined May 2004, 487 posts, RR: 5 Reply 3, posted (8 years 5 months 6 hours ago) and read 2761 times:
Most Canadian pilots have come up through the flying instructor route, I think. So it wouldn't be presumptuous to think that they don't have float experience.
AC 320's fly to the Caribbean, so there are overwater routes. There are only a few aircraft so equipped, though - 213 to 217, 257 to 261, and 465 to 467 - I might be a number or two off there. Perhaps you saw the manual for one of the non-overwater flying aircraft.
Seems like something you'd want to have in there, though.
The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the manufacturer and impossible for the AME.
LongHauler From Canada, joined Mar 2004, 4275 posts, RR: 36 Reply 4, posted (8 years 4 months 4 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 2721 times:
I am not sure what manual you are looking at, but Ditching procedures are in my Air Canada A319/320/321 manuals. (Which are current, by the way!)
The procedures, nose attitudes, notes etc, are in the QRH ... expanded in Vol1 ... then explained in detail, including sea assessment in the Flight Crew Training Manual for the A319/320/321.
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B741 From Canada, joined Jan 2004, 716 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (8 years 4 months 4 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 2649 times:
I was looking in Emergency Procedures Section 1.13 which does not mention the sea. This is manual 1 so I will check the other 4 manuals to see if this is mentioned.
LongHauler From Canada, joined Mar 2004, 4275 posts, RR: 36 Reply 6, posted (8 years 4 months 4 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 2635 times:
Do you have access to the Flight Crew Training Manual? This is a very large (400+ pages) publication that gives a "how to" to just about everything involved with the A319/320/321. It is published "in house" by Air Canada's training department, and has a very comprehensive explanation with regard to ditching.
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