Content
Course content
This course covers the following topics:
- Types of aircraft engines.
- Aircraft engine components.
- Aircraft auxiliary power unit (APU) shutdown and extinguishing panel.
- Engine fire detection and protection systems.
- Defining the term ‘flashpoint’.
- Types and properties of aircraft fuels.
- Potential hazards during an incident involving an aircraft engine.
- Dos and don’ts of operating near an aircraft engine.
- The dangers of jet blast.
- Hazards around a helicopter.
- Jet aircraft projectiles.
- Common causes of engine fires during start-up, take-off, and during flight.
- Unique considerations for tailpipe fires.
- Size-up.
- Important elements of an effective incident action plan.
- Procedures for responding to an engine fire.
- Communication with the flight crew.
- Example of an aircraft engine fire tactical plan.
- Dual agent application to extinguish an engine fire.
- SQ368, Changi Airport Singapore 27th June 2016.
- Changi ARFF tactical plan.
- Exercises to discuss with your team your response to several incidents.











