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Air/Hangar/Flight Deck Familiarization Flashcards

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What PPE is required to be on the flight deck?

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Flight deck steel toed boots, cranial impact helmet, protective eye goggles, leather gloves

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Why is the airfield familiarization important?

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For personal safety and the safety of the aircrew

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What is a runway?

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Paved areas that are used for aircraft takeoff and landing

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What are threshold markings?

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Parallel stripes on the ends of the runways.

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What is an overrun area?

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

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What is a taxiway?

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

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What is a parking apron?

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Open paved areas adjacent to hangars, fuel, services often called the flight line.

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What is a compass calibration pad?

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Compass rose- a paved area in a magnetically quiet area where the aircraft compass is calibrated.

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What is the purpose if the runway numbering system?

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Runways are normally numbered in relation to their magnetic heading rounded of to the nearest 10 degrees.

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What is the purpose of the airfield rotating beacon?

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When the airport is below VFR weather conditions, the airport rotating beacon is used to identify the airports location.

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What are yellow jerseys?

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Aircraft handling officer, flight deck officer, catapult officer, air bos’n, arresting gear officer, plane director

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What are white jerseys?

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Safety department, air transport officer, landing signal officer, and medical

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What are white jerseys with black checkers?

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Trouble shooters

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What are white jerseys with a green cross?

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Safety

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What are white jerseys with a Red Cross?

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Medical

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What is a brown jersey?

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Plane captains

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What is a blue jersey?

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Aircraft handling and chock crewman, elevator operators

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What is a green jersey?

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

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What is a red jersey?

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Crash and salvage, EOD, ordinance handling personnel

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What is a red jersey with a black bar?

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Ordinance crews

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What is a purple jersey?

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Aviation fuel crew

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What is VLA?

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Visual landing aids

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What two types of tie down chains do we have on board?

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TD-1A and TD-1B

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How many chains are required for an initial tie down?

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Minimum of six

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How many chains are required for normal weather tie downs?
Nine chains
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How many chains are required for moderate weather tie downs?
14 chains
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How many chains are required for heavy weather tie downs?
20 chains
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Why do we use hand signals on the flight deck?
To communicate in high tempo/high noise environments
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When directing fixed wing aircraft what are the mandatory hand signals regardless of aircraft type?
Emergency stop
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What is the maximum speed while towing an aircraft?
5mph or the speed of the slowest walker
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What is the minimum number of people required to move an aircraft?
6-10 personnel
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What is the purpose of the move director?
Overall responsible for assembling the move crew, ensure proper qualifications to preform duties, pre move briefings, safe movement of the aircraft with emphasis on safety
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What is the purpose of the brake rider?
Conducts a pre-move inspection of brake system and aircraft to ensure it is mechanically sound and ready to move
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What is the purpose of the safety observer?
Responsible for ensuring that the aircraft is ready to be towed and that there is ample clearance for the aircraft
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What is the purpose of the chalk walker?
Responsible for removing, carrying and installing wheel chocks
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What is the purpose of the tractor driver?
Responsible for the safe and slow movement if the aircraft from hook up to the final parking spot.
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Who is the air boss?
CDR Norris
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Who is the mini boss?
CDR Bassel
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Who is the handler?
LCDR Caldwell
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Who is the air bos'n?
CWO4 Garcia
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Who is the flight deck officer?
LCDR Flores
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How many divisions are in air department?
Five
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What is V-1 responsible for?
Handling of all aircraft on the flight deck
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What is V-2 responsible for?
In charge of operations and maintenance of catapults and arresting gear machinery
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What is V-3 responsible for?
Responsible in handling of all aircraft on the hangar deck also operation of aircraft elevators and hangar bay doors
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What is V-4 responsible for?
In charge of operation and upkeep of carrier aviation fuel and lube oil transfer systems.
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What is V-5 responsible for?
Responsible for the communication of aircraft launch and recovery, tower communication and all admin duties within the department
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He many personnel man Pri-fly?
Nine
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Who mans Pri-fly?
Air boss, mini boss, primary flight control supervisor, land/launch record keeper, integrated shipboard information system computer operator, forward spotter, aft spotter, recovery equipment controller, fresnel lens optical landing system (IFLOLS) controller
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Who is overall in charge of flight operations?
Commanding officer
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Who is responsible for the supervision and direction of aircraft launching recovery. Visual landing aid and shipboard handling aircraft
Air boss
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Who is responsible for the supervision and handling of the embarked aircraft on the flight deck and hangar deck?
Air handling officer
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What is the primary job of the crash crew?
To save lives
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Who are the 7 personnel manned in flight deck control?
Aircraft handing officer/flight deck officer, assistant flight deck officer, aviation fuel representative, sound powered phone talkers, elevator operators, weapons personnel, squadron/aircraft maintenance representative
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Who wears a green jersey with a red cranial?
Landing LSE
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What is the condition in which normal fixed wing and helicopter flight operations are conducted.
Flight quarters
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What are the five different types of firefighting agent systems for combating flight deck fires?
PKP, AFFF, CO2, saltwater, steam smothering
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What is ALRE stand for?
Aircraft launch and recovery equipment
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What provides a direct connection between the launching pistons and the aircraft?
Shuttle
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How many ways are there to emergency lower JBD?
Two- hydraulic and electrical
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What stops the pistons and shuttle assembly at the end of the catapult shot?
Water break
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What controls the flow of steam to the launching cylinders in order to shoot the catapult?
Launch valve
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What provides for remote start up and charging of the hydraulic and air system to power and control the catapult system?
Central charging panel
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What provides a means of assisting the attachment of the aircraft to the catapult system?
Nose gear launch installation
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What does ICCS stand for?
Integrated catapult control system
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Where is the bow ICCS located?
Between catapult 1 and 2
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Where is the waist ICCS located?
Port side of catapult 4
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Who wears a green jersey and a yellow float coat?
Catapult safety observer
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Where are the steam smothering boxes located?
One for each catapult next to the catapult deck edge box
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How many different engines are there in arresting gear?
Two- pendant and barricade
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How many times can a barricade be used?
Once
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How many different types of barricades are there?
Two ready jet and E-2/C-2
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What component controls the stopping of the aircraft?
CRO valve
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What does CRO stand for?
Constant run out valve
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What are 4 differences between the pendant and barricade engine?
No saltwater cooler, anchors, auto lube, and shorter run out
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What does CDP stand for?
Cross deck pendant
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How many arrestments are a CDP good for?
125
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What is the purpose of the sheave damper?
To absorb the initial impact of an aircraft
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What are the barricade stanchions used for?
To connect the webbing assemblies to provide a net
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What secures the lower load straps of the barricade webbing assembly and causes the aircraft nose wheel to ride up into the barricade?
Deck ramps
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What does ARC stand for?
Advanced recovery control
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What Does IFLOLS stand for?
Improved fresnel lens optical landing system
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What is IFLOLS used for?
Visual landing aid normally used by the pilot to bring the aircraft down a glide slope to the deck within the arresting gear cross deck pendant pattern with a safe clearance between the tail hook and the stern of the ship
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What does MOVLAS stand for?
Manually operated visual landing aid system
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What is MOVLAS used for?
The MOVLAS is used as a backup, should the FLOLS system be inoperative or ineffective due to excessive pitch and roll of the ship.
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What does ILARTS stand for?
Integrated launch and recovery television system
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What is ILARTS used for?
Designed to monitor and simultaneously record aircraft launching and landing operations under day and night conditions
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What is the backup for IFLOLS?
MOVLAS
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During CQ operations, what specifically is air boss and mini boss responsible for?
Air boss-recovery mini boss-flight pattern and launching aircraft in the bow
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What does ISIS stand for?
Integrated shipboard information system
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What is the primary job for gear operator?
Set the proper weight settings of the aircraft
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What is the primary job of the tower operator?
Ensures all equipment is up and running
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What watch station does the primary flight control have on the flight deck?
LSO
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What does LSO stand for?
Landing signal officer

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