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1
Q

What do you do if an emergency slide does NOT auto-inflate?

A

Crewmember can open its valve to make it perform its function (manual inflation handle).

2
Q

What happens if a door is opened from the outside with the slide armed?

A

Disarms the door and the slide.

3
Q

How is the door opened normally, and with the slide armed?

A

When the slide-arming lever is in the ARMED position, the slide is connected to the floor brackets on both sides of the door. When the door opens, the side inflates and deploys automatically.

4
Q

What do the white indicator and red indicator (below the door window) signify?

A

White light: illuminates if control handle is operated when slide is armed. The slide-armed indication appears in black.
Red light: flashes when one or both engines stopped, the slides are disarmed, and the cabin differential pressure is >2.5hPa

5
Q

How long are the escape ropes?

A

Long enough to reach the ground when lowered through either siding window.

6
Q

What deploys the over-wing escape slide?

A
  • Remove handle cover, the handle light and slide armed indicator illuminate.
  • Pull control handle: the exit moves inwards.
  • Lift EXIT from frame by holding the GRIP MOULD
  • Throw EXIT out
7
Q

How many over-wing emergency exits / slides are there?

A
  • 2 over-wing exits on each slide (4 total)
  • Each side with dual-lane slide (2 total)
  • 4 other cabin doors have single-lane slide-rafts or slides
8
Q

What are the indications, on the doors SD, of slides armed or disarmed?

A

Door symbols: green – closed and locked. Amber – not locked.
Door indication: appears amber when the door is not locked.
Slide indication: white when the slide is armed.

9
Q

How are the sliding windows opened / closed?

A

To be pushed open in the direction of the cabin after removal of the quick release pins.

10
Q

How do the crew escape through he cockpit door if it is jammed?

A

The escape panel enables the flight crew to evacuate the cockpit, in case of an emergency when the door is jammed. This panel can only be removed from the cockpit side by pulling the quick release pins towards the centre of the flap and kicking the panel open. (Kick outwards into the cabin).

11
Q

Loss of electrical power to the cockpit door lock causes?

A

In case of an electrical supply failure. The door is automatically unlocked, but remains closed.

12
Q

No.

A

Can you open the sliding windows from outside?

13
Q

The yellow hydraulic system.

A

The cargo doors are powered by…

14
Q

If the yellow system’s elec pump fails crewmembers can use a hand pump to pressurize the system. This hand pump is on the hydraulic maintenance panel.

A

Can you open the cargo doors if the yellow system’s elec pump fails?

15
Q

Four.

A

How many avionic compartment access doors are available?

16
Q

The red ring below the release button should be in view.

A

How is it determined that the cockpit sliding window is closed and locked?

17
Q

No opening from outside disarms the slide.

A

If somebody opens an armed door from outside will the slide deploy?

18
Q

On the doors.

A

Where does the Door and Slide Control System (DSCS) generate warnings?

19
Q

Automatically inflate the double lane slide off the trailing edge of the wing.

A

Opening an emergency overwing exit will…

20
Q

These doors are in the lower fuselage around the nose landing gear bay.

A

Where are the avionic compartment access doors?

21
Q

Yes there are escape ropes mounted above each window behind an access panel.

A

Can the flight compartment sliding windows be used as emergency exits?

22
Q

It automatically unlocks.

A

What happens to the cockpit door during electrical power failure?

23
Q

The slide is armed.

A

What is the meaning of the white SLIDE indication on the DOOR page?

24
Q

This indicates that the aircraft cabin is still pressurized and the cabin door should not be opened.

A

What does the illumination of the red cabin pressure light represent on the main cabin door?

25
Q

Four inward-opening manual operated hinged doors give access to the avionic compartments.

A

How are the avionic compartment access doors operated?