CAMI Basic Survival Training

[aanderson81]

I recently attending the Air Safety Institute "After the Crash" seminar and the presenter mentioned the CAMI Basic Survival course and that its free on a space available basis to all pilots. I was wondering if anyone here has attended it and if so what they thought of what the course offered. It sounds like it could be an interesting course to attend based on the description.

https://www.faa.gov/pilots/training/airman_education/survival_training/

Basic Survival training consists of information on the following topics with hands-on, Lab, application where indicated (listed in order of presentation):

• Psychology of Survival
• Overview of Search & Rescue Operations
• Personal Survival Kits
• Fire Starting with Lab
• Hot Land Survival
• Cold Land Survival
• Signaling with Lab (weather permitting)
• Aircraft (Smoke) Evacuation with Lab
• Ditching and Sea Survival
• Underwater Egress
• Water Survival Lab consisting of:

• Ditching and Egress
• Flotation and Swimming
• Raft Boarding and Righting
• Rescue (pick-up) Devices
• Shallow Water Egress Trainer (Voluntary)