Flightster Friday: Recurrent Training

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Did you know that your flight attendant goes through training every year to refresh their skills in saving lives and evacuating airplanes?

It’s true. It’s called “recurrent training.”

Each year each flight attendant must attend and pass a training program designed to keep vital life saving skills fresh in their minds. Each airlines’ program varies in length from one to two days (and in some rare cases, three days) but flight attendants can expect to be tested and demonstrate their knowledge of aircraft safety.

In October I completed my third recurrent at my airline. For me, I start feeling the stress of recurrent training in September. The stress associated with the class stems from the fact that failure to prove to your instructors that you can evacuate an aircraft, perform CPR, know everything there is to know about the aircrafts emergency equipment, diagnose and treat common ailments, know the latest security measures and directives and can properly and effectively fight a fire can cost you your job.

Read more about recurrent training and get an inside look at how it’s done on Flightster.com

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  • http://www.travelingwithmj.com Mary Jo Manzanares

    My RT was in November, and I start stressing a month out too. Knowing that your job depends on it, until the next year when you have to go through it all over again, is incredible pressure. I think you could ask any flight attendant these questions at any time and they’d know the answer without thinking. But put those same questions into RT and it’s a recipe for stress.

    • Bobby

      It’s so true!! The stress of RT makes it the one thing every flight attendant fears, except of course their supervisors ;)