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Lab: NAVAIR Training Systems Division
Category: Training & Education
AMSRD-STC
12350 Research Parkway
Orlando, FL, 32826
Phone: 407-380-8559 ext.
Fax: 407-380-4829 |
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DV 9E8C provides Naval flying personnel with a realistic water collision training device. The trainer permits the student to gain experience in the proper aircraft egress (exit) procedures. These techniques are necessary for the student to achieve self control, rapidly evaluate and respond to changes in his environment, and overcome natural fear and panic to water submersion. The trainer also provides the student with an opportunity to develop confidence in his/her ability to respond automatically to an emergency situation, hands-on experience in manual release of restraints and canopy release mechanisms identical to those used in the T-34C.
Device 9E8C consists of steel towers supporting two parallel inclined steel rails that extend into the water of an indoor swimming pool. A simulated single-engine aircraft cockpit is mounted on a wheeled chassis that rides on the rails.
Only one Device 9E8C exists and it was originally designated as Device 9U44C by the Naval Training Device Center (now designated Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division). Modified by Training Equipment Change Directives (TECDs) it became DV 9E8C.
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