CDC Vol 3, 401 & 402

Question 1

• What three steps does tracking involve?

Answer 1

1. Determine a target exists
2. Initiate a track on the target
3. Ensure the track continuity is preserved

Question 2

• How do you separate valid radar returns from “noise”?

Answer 2

By looking for a data trail

Question 3

• Why should every track have its own unique track number?

Answer 3

The track number is what we use when referring to tracks. Having more than one would be confusing.

Question 4

• What is track continuity?

Answer 4

Making sure tracks stay with data.

Question 5

• What do you do if you are no longer receiving data on a track.

Answer 5

• Check to see if their are any airbases or civilian runways in the area.
• If you are confident the track has landed, report the landing and drop the track when you get approval.
• If you are not confident the track has landed, report the lost track and extrapolate the track for five minutes.

Question 6

• Start 402: What is the quickest and most effective way of reporting tracks?

Answer 6

Automatically, via data link.

Question 7

When voice telling tracks, how do you report altitude, heading, and speed?

Answer 7

• Altitude in 100-foot increments prefaced with its source
• Heading in magnetic degrees
• Speed in 10-knot increments

Question 8

What are the “normal” altitude sources used to report altitude in voice-tell?

Answer 8

• Measured
• Reported
• Unknown
• Estimated

Question 9

• What type of information do you never pass over unsecured radios?

Answer 9

• Range or classification of the system you are operating
• Existence of electronic attack (EA)
• Mode 1 or 2 codes
• In short, do not pass classified information

Question 10

If the data link is down, how to you pass the track information to other units?

Answer 10

Voice tell procedures

Question 11

What are the 4 types of “Tell”?

Answer 11

1 - Forward Tell
2 - Lateral Tell
3 - Overlap Tell
4 - Back Tell

Question 12

What type of tell is used to pass air surveillance information to a higher echelon in the control and warning system?

Answer 12

Forward tell

Question 13

What type of tell provides adjacent stations with track information approaching tracks?

Answer 13

Lateral tell

Question 14

• What type of tell is used when a radar station detects a target in an adjacent station’s area, which is not being carried in the area?

Answer 14

Overlap tell

Question 15

What type of tell provides air surveillance data and is passed from a higher echelon to a lower echelon?

Answer 15

Back tell

Question 16

Once lateral tell has started, when would you stop lateral tell?

Answer 16

When a unit requests a cease tell.

Question 17

In the case of overlapping coverage, how is track number assigned and which unit would forward tell the track?

Answer 17

• Track numbers are assigned by the station in the area where the track originated.
• The track is forward told by the originating unit.

Question 18

• What are the three kinds of reports in telling?

Answer 18

• New track
• Revision
• Drop track

Question 19

What lines does the revision tell report typically include from the New Track Report?

Answer 19

Lines 2-6, 13, and 15

Question 20

How many lines are in a typical New Track Report?

Answer 20

15

Question 21

What are the Tell Priorities (I teach them as the Surveillance Priorities)?

Answer 21

• Priority 1: Hostile, EW, and Faker tracks
• Priority 2: Unknown and pending
• Priority 3: All Emergencies
• Priority 4: Interceptor tracks that are not paired against threats
• Priority 5: VIPs, Friend tracks, and special mission tracks

Question 22

• What three tell priorities are considered critical class tracks?

Answer 22

Priorities 1,2, and 3

Question 23

• What are two opposites of situational awareness?

Answer 23

1. Tunnel vision

2. Target fixation

Question 24

What is it called when an operator concentrates on one task while neglecting others?

Answer 24

Tunnel vision

Question 25

What is it called when an operator pays so much attention to one or two tracks that others go undetected or tracking continuity is lost ?

Answer 25

Target fixation