Which door component is used to arm the door?

Which door component is used to arm the door?

• A. Emergency Placard
• B. Slight Light
• C. Girt bar Indicators
• D. Arming Lever

Answer: (D)

Arming a door means preparing the escape slide for deployment in an emergency. The control that does this is the arming lever. When you move the arming lever to the armed position, the girt bars are engaged into the floor brackets, securing the slide and enabling automatic deployment if the door is opened during an evacuation. Without arming, opening the door won’t deploy the slide automatically. The other items aren’t controls for arming: the emergency placard is just a safety instruction label, a status light is merely a indicator, and girt bar indicators show whether the girt bars are in the correct position but don’t arm the door themselves.

Arming a door means preparing the escape slide for deployment in an emergency. The control that does this is the arming lever. When you move the arming lever to the armed position, the girt bars are engaged into the floor brackets, securing the slide and enabling automatic deployment if the door is opened during an evacuation. Without arming, opening the door won’t deploy the slide automatically.

The other items aren’t controls for arming: the emergency placard is just a safety instruction label, a status light is merely a indicator, and girt bar indicators show whether the girt bars are in the correct position but don’t arm the door themselves.