Drager Smoke Hood E28180-14 for crew training

Portable Breathing equipment, or PBE, are an essential part of the safety equipment carried on board commercial aircraft and familiarisation with this breathing equipment is an essential part of cabin crew initial training, conversion and difference training and refresher training [JAR-OPS Subpart O].

The Drager breathing apparatus is carried as standard equipment by many airlines, which makes training with accurate representations of the portable breathing equipment a priority.

For training purposes airline training schools and academies have two options:

Operating the Drager breathing apparatus:

A deployed smoke hood can be used for demonstrating the key components of the Drager PBE but should not be worn. This part can be purchased via cabincrewsafety.aero, part reference 84000051

Donning & wearing Drager breathing apparatus

Either a modified version of an original Drager smoke hood, where additional breathing holes have been added and the chemical smoke generator removed and replaced with a representation or a fabricated replica of the original Drager unit.

It should be noted that emergency supplied air respirator's, such as the Drager smoke hood, are designed for single emergency use and deployed models are best suited to classroom static reference items. These units were never designed for regular use and therefore offer only a short, limited, lifetime in a training role.

Fabricated training smoke hoods offer a tough solution to high use, such as initial or recurrent cabin crew training. The cost of these devices is more expensive than time expired, or modified time expired units but their lifetime is infinitely longer, with scope for repair and regular cleaning and sterilisation.

Drager training smoke hoods are available to purchase via cabincrewsafety.aero, part reference 82000011

The use of common parts also means replacement smoke hood neck seals can be stocked as a single item, across the range of Drager,Scott and BE Aerospace training smoke hoods.