This school vacation, AMS is planning to visit Singapore Aeromedical Centre (SAC). The planned dates are 17, 19 and 20 March 2009.
SAC primarily serves the RSAF and conducts all the ab initio medical checks for new flying crew as well as for SIA cadets. SAC is the only organisation in Singapore equipped with facilities to train Aviation Physiology. Such facilities are not accessible to public.
The objective of this visit is to let students try out practicals which will enhance their learning of Aviation Physiology.
This will probably be a once in a life time chance to go for this tour! Whats more... be the pioneer polytechnic group on this tour.
Practical (Std tour includes Practical 1 & 2 for a special price)
1.Turntable
This practical involves every single student (1 at a time) to sit in a dark box, the box will be spinning randomly to experience motion. The student will be required to carry out some actions to experience how your vestibular system can create an illusion!
2. Vertifuge
Every student is required to sit in this mod up single-seater aircraft and try to fly the aircraft with no visual with the surrounding environment! The aircraft will be spinning constant and the pilot will have to keep the aircraft straight and level.
3. Night Vision Trainer (Additional trainer for extra S$25)
Eyes can play alot of tricks on us. In this modified dark room, the students will go through this practical understanding how our eyes work in darkness!
4. Hypobaric Chamber (To be conducted on a separate session - est. S$220 incl of doctor checkup before flight)
The save way of experiencing Hypoxia! Bring you up to 25,000ft MSL, take away oxygen and voila... Hypoxia kicks in! Understand how this affects your body and what your symptoms are like... every human body differs.
Experience this once and you will never forget it again!
