Low pressure chamber

[nitestryker7]

I remember seeing this when I was there. Did they still have that a-hole PT instructor? Cant remember his name...Mr Ruber maybe?

[navallint]

@nitestryker7 I don't remember his name but there was an older guy who seemed to get a lot of enjoyment out of kicking people's asses when they started to fall behind. He always wore a ball cap and a camel-back I think.

[nitestryker7]

@navallint was he a dark skinned white guy who was kinda short and had gray hair? Retired navy I think...

[navallint]

@nitestryker7 Yea, that was him.

[kopronica92]

what are the swimming qualifications for NACCS?

[navallint]

You have to be able to demonstrate a proper side stroke, freestyle, breast stroke, and back stroke pretty early on. After that you'll do laps with increasing amounts of gear, e.g., flight suit, boots, SV2, and helmet. You'll have to jump off a10' platform with boots and a flight suit and stay submerged to the other side of the pool. The final test is swimming a mile in just a flight suit without touching the bottom or sides of the pool.

[navallint]

You'll also have to go through all the "Disneyland" stuff: helo dunker, parachute drag, some kind of underwater door lock simulation, manual inflation of SV2, and a few other fun ones. It's been four years since I was there so I imagine some things have changed. Talk to an aircrewman or a recruiter and they should be able to tell you everything you need to know.

[jbaker001200]

im about to do this in 15 minutes, cant wait.....

[wastedrubber]

haha i remember this training, some of the candidates used childrens toys too, good stuff

[SailorMav]

Morter your gay... and a horrible deck captain.... see ya at muster haha

[ROBERTxxP]

question. how hard in naccs??? i have been wanting to join.

[squozen1]

not hard at all..as long as you can swim and pt...

[kapampanganako]

I just signed up, I would like to be an aircrew. I was told that I need to be a 2nd class (or 1st class swimmer). The problem is, I don't know how to swim.

That looks fun!

Anyway, how long do you have to do the "pat a cake" to pass?

[SailorMav]

I just graduated aircrew school in november and am currently attending AW school.

Aircrew school was a blast and the low pressure chamber (LPC) was hilarious.

There really is no set time for how long you have to play pattycake you just have to participate. Its not as much of a test as much as it is an evlolution for you to recognize your personal symptons of hypoxia just in case you do lose cabin pressure at high altitudes. That way you know when to go on air.

[moviemakersunited]

wow.....that is AWESOME!

[rickrocker]

Hypoxia... I did mine with computer games. Four different sessions/experiments. The result was a portable low pressure machine used shipboard today.

[SandSnip3r]

look like retards

[aschuhart]

i remember going through back in 1999 (was class 0007). Me and my partner, a marine, were the only one's who went 5 full minutes of perfect patty cake. They had us stop hold out our arms and made us act like we were flying or something...I'm not to sure because at that point I started to suffer temporary amnesia (another effect of the LPC) and the only memory I have of holding out my arms like that was from the video we watched afterwards :P

[123OGNIAN]

By any chance do you khnow how much a baro-chamber a litle bigger than this coud cost?

[navallint]

i have no idea. a few million i'm sure. this was from last april and i've since experienced it in an actual situation aboard one of our aircraft. why would you want one of these anyway?

[123OGNIAN]

Thanks for the responce man:)