Airfield And Flight Deck Familiarization

Question 0

Potentially life threatening on the flight line?

Answer 0

Jet blast, rotor arcs, propellers, and intakes.

Question 1

Essential to working on the flight line?

Answer 1

Being FOD free, wearing PPE, being qualified, and keeping your head on a swivel.

Question 2

The required flight line protective equipment include?

Answer 2

Flight deck safety shoes
Cranial impact helmet
Protective eye goggles
Leather gloves

Question 3

Paved areas that are used for aircraft takeoff and landing?

Answer 3

Runways

Question 4

Why do runways vary in length?

Answer 4

They are determined by the aircraft sizes and weights that utilize them.

Question 5

These are parallel stripes on the ends of the runways?

Answer 5

Threshold markings

Question 6

Threshold markings are how many feet wide by how many feet long? What do they designate?

Answer 6

12ft wide by 150ft long and designate the landing area.

Question 7

Paved or un-paved section on the ends of the runways that provide a reasonably effective deceleration area for aborting or overshooting aircraft?

Answer 7

Overrun area

Question 8

Designed to stop tricycle landing gear equipped aircraft not equipped with tail hooks?

Answer 8

MA-1 Series Overrun Barrier

Question 9

MA-1A is always in what status?

Answer 9

Standby

Question 10

Why is the MA-1A always in standby status?

Answer 10

In case there is an aborted takeoff or an emergency overrun landing

Question 11

Used during in-flight emergencies that require stopping the aircraft during landing in the shortest distance possible to minimize the chance of injury to pilot or aircrew and damage to the aircraft?

Answer 11

Emergency shore based recovery equipment

Question 12

Paved areas for aircraft to move between parking aprons, runways, and airfield services?

Answer 12

Taxiways

Question 13

Open paved areas adjacent to hangers, fuel, services often called the flight like.

Answer 13

Parking apron

Question 14

A paved area in a magnetically quiet area where the aircraft compass is calibrated?

Answer 14

Compass calibration pad (Compass Rose)

Question 15

Used for parking, servicing, and loading aircraft; they are connected to runways by taxiways?

Answer 15

Parking apron

Question 16

Runways are normally numbered in relation to?

Answer 16

Their magnetic heading rounded off to the nearest 10 degrees.

Question 17

When the airport is below VFR weather conditions, day or night, what is used to identify the airports location?

Answer 17

Airfield rotating beacon

Question 18

The airfield rotating beacon rotates clockwise at what speed?

Answer 18

A constant speed 12-15 times per minute.

Question 19

Flight deck protective equipment?

Answer 19

Flight deck (steel-toed) safety shoes
Protective jersey
Cranial impact helmet
Protective eye goggles
Leather gloves

Question 20

Yellow jerseys?

Answer 20

Aircraft handling officer, flight deck officer, catapult officer, air boss, arresting gear officer and plane directors

Question 21

White jersey?

Answer 21

Safety department, air transport officer, landing signal officer, squadron plane inspectors (troubleshooters) and medical

Question 22

Brown jerseys?

Answer 22

Plane captains

Question 23

Blue jerseys?

Answer 23

Aircraft handling and chock crewman (chocks, chains, and tractors) and elevator operators

Question 24

Green jerseys?

Answer 24

Catapult and arresting gear personnel, squadron aircraft maintenance personnel, helicopter landing signal enlisted-man and photographers

Question 25

Red jerseys?

Answer 25

Crash and salvage, explosive ordinance disposal, and ordinance handling personnel

Question 26

Purple jersey?

Answer 26

Aviation fuel crew

Question 27

Identified by a 12-inch wide red stripe with a white 3-inch _____ stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming

Answer 27

PKP

Question 28

Identified by an 18-inch wide red stripe with a yellow 3-inch high ____ stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming?

Answer 28

Saltwater stations

Question 29

Identified by a 12-inch wide red stripe with a white 3-inch high ____ stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming?

Answer 29

CO2 bottle stowage

Question 30

Identified by an 18-inch wide green stripe with white 3-inch high _____ stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming?

Answer 30

AFFF Station

Question 31

Ramps designated to eliminate loose ordinance will have a yellow stripe painted up and over the deck edge at both ends of the ramp opening?

Answer 31

Bomb jettison ramp

Question 32

Identified by an 18-inch black stripe with a 3” white _____ stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming?

Answer 32

Steam smothering