{"id":1046,"date":"2019-01-02T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2018-12-26T14:14:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T14:14:53","slug":"its-there-but-can-it-put-out-a-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/its-there-but-can-it-put-out-a-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s There, But Can It Put Out A Fire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aircraft Fires. Just saying it sends chills down the spine of all pilots. The FAA published InFO 18013 (11\/15\/18) from Flight Standards as a caution to aircrews concerning proper inspection and maintenance of Hand-Held Fire Extinguishers. There have been instances where an extinguisher has leaked, and the time of discovery is the same as the time of need.<\/p>\n<p>There may be required inspection intervals for the fire extinguishers, but those are no substitute for a good preflight.<\/p>\n<p>Before flight, check fire extinguishers for the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inspection tags<\/li>\n<li>Security in their mounts<\/li>\n<li>Safety pin condition<\/li>\n<li>Charge level<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Too often, we get used to seeing the extinguisher in the cockpit, but we fail to give it a second thought. The InFO serves to remind aircraft owners, operators, air agencies, suppliers, distributors, and maintenance technicians that hand-held\/portable fire extinguishers have the potential to leak and should be inspected per the proper prescribing guidance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/\">Advanced Aircrew Academy<\/a> has this InFo incorporated in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/emergency-procedures_175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emergency Procedures module<\/a>. For more information on how we can customize and streamline your ground training with our endless supply of eLearning module topics, contact us at 843.557.1266 or <a href=\"mailto:info@aircrewacademy.com\">info@aircrewacademy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aircraft Fires. Just saying it sends chills down the spine of all pilots. The FAA published InFO 18013 (11\/15\/18) from Flight Standards as a caution to aircrews concerning proper inspection and maintenance of Hand-Held Fire Extinguishers. There have been instances where an extinguisher has leaked, and the time of discovery is the same as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":1047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}