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Survival Skillset

Lesson 4 of 12

Ground-to-air codes and body signals

30 min

A rescue helicopter is flying a training sortie up a valley on a bright summer afternoon. Below, a family on a picnic waves cheerfully, both arms up, as people do at helicopters. The crew see two raised arms, which in their language means "yes, we need help". They turn, descend, burn fuel and time, and land in a field of startled sheep to find nobody needs anything. Meanwhile, somewhere else,…

In this lesson

  • The ground-to-air emergency code
  • Choosing the message
  • Placing it
  • Building ground symbols: size, contrast and materials
  • Time and energy
  • SOS on the ground
  • Reading an aircraft's reply
  • What to do
  • Body signals to a helicopter: Y and N
  • How to give them
  • The waving problem
  • The arms distress signal

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