Glossary Flashcards
Actual Instrument Approach
When actual instrument conditions are encountered below 1000’ above airport/flight deck elevation during an actual instrument approach.
Actual Instrument Conditions
Conditions external to the aircraft in flight that do not permit visual reference to the horizon.
Aerobatic Flight Maneuvers
An intentional maneuver involving an abrupt change in aircraft attitude, intentionally performed spins, or other maneuvers requiring pitch/dive angles greater than 45, bank angles greater than 60, or accelerations greater than 2 gs. A maneuver that conforms to the model NATOPS manual (break, weapons delivery, autorotations, etc.) is not considered aerobatic flight.
Aircraft Commander time
The individual flight time during which an individual, designated as a qualified aircraft commander in the aircraft model being flown, is serving as pilot in command. Aircraft commander time is a measure of command experience rather than of pilot experience.
Aircrew
A collective term that applies to all categories of personnel in a flight status either as crew or noncrew-member. Aircrew are military personnel on competent flight orders or civilian personnel whose duties require frequent and regular participation in aerial flights to perform inflight functions such as installation, maintenance, evaluation of airborne technical equipment, communication specialists, photo specialists, etc.
Controlling Custodian
The command exercising administrative control of assignment, employment, and logistic support of aircraft. (Wing Commodore)
Crew Resource Management
The use of specifically defined behavioral skills as an integral part of every flight to improve mission effectiveness by minimizing crew preventable errors, maximizing crew coordination, and optimizing risk management.
Cross-Country Flight
A flight that either does not remain in the local area, or remains in the local flying area and terminates at a facility other than an active military facility.
Flight
For helicopters, a flight begins when the aircraft lifts from a point of rest, or commences ground taxi, and ends after airborne flight when the rotors are disengaged or the aircraft has been stationary for 5 minutes with rotors engaged.
-flight time on repetitive evolutions such as FCLP, pax/cargo stops, and carrier qualifications shall be logged from the time the aircraft takes off until the aircraft has been on the surface for 5 minutes after each evolution flown.
Flight Crew
Personnel whose presence is required on board a manned aircraft or at a control station for UAS to perform crew functions in support of the assigned mission.
Flight Time
The elapsed time computed in accordance with the definition of flight. Flight time is logged in hours and tenths of hours and is creditable to the aircraft, personnel aboard, and equipment.
Formation Flight
A flight of more than one aircraft operating by prior arrangement as a single aircraft with regard to altitude, navigation, and position reporting, and where separation between the aircraft within the flight rests with the pilots in that flight.
Hazard
A condition with the potential to cause personal injury or death, property damage, or mission degradation.
Instrument Meteorological Conditions
Meteorological conditions expressed in terms of visibility, distance from clouds, and ceiling less than the minimums specified for visual meteorological conditions. IMC conditions exist anytime a visible horizon is not distinguishable.
Instrument Time
The portion of pilot time in either day or night under actual or simulated instrument conditions.
1. Actual instrument time will be logged by both pilots in a dual/multipiloted aircraft during flight in actual IMC.
2. Simulated instrument time shall be logged only by the pilot actually manipulating the controls.
