80T-106 Flashcards
Helicopter Recovery Patterns for Starboard Side Spots
Condition I / Alert 5
The helicopters shall be spotted for immediate launch with rotor blades spread, starting equipment plugged in, and the LSE and starting crewman and ordnance personnel ready for launch in all respects. When the word is passed “Standby for launch,: engines shall be started without further instructions; however, launch shall be positively controlled from PriFly. Aircraft should be airborne within 5 minutes of order to launch.
Night Overwater Passenger Transfer
Night overwater helicopter passenger flights are prohibited except in operational necessity… This does not preclude troop movement in support of amphibious exercises.
Note: Troop movement includes all operationally required key personnel needed to plan and accomplish the assigned amphibious, special warfare and EOD missions as designated by the CATF/CLF/OTC. This authorization does not include civilians or any military personnel assigned administrative missions or being moved as a matter of convenience.
Helicopter Departure Procedures - Case I
Visual Meteorological Conditions Departure to Rendezvous This departure may be used when IMC is not anticipated during departure and subsequent rendezvous. Helicopters shall clear the control zone are or below 300ft or as directed by PriFly.
SAR Helicopter
When at sea, the HSC detachment shall designate a SAR helicopter to be maintained, during daylight hours and when operationally feasible, in Condition IV for SAR/MEDEVAC contingencies. A SAR crew shall be designated and promulgated in the air lan. The designated crew shall remain the duty SAR crew until properly relieved by another crew; brief and preflight complete. The helicopter may be utilized for local administrative, logistic, or training functions while in standby status. The embarked squadron.detachment should assume SAR/MEDEVAC standby whenever the ship’s HSC detachment helicopter is not operationally ready for SAR.
Hotel Flag
Weather Minimums for Night EMCON
Shall be 500ft above the normally prescribed delta pattern and a minimum of 3nm visibility with a well defined horizon
Nonstandard Helicopter Landing Patterns
Cross-Deck: shall be flown the same as a standard landing pattern except the approach shall continue across the flight deck to assigned landing spot
Helicopter Around Stern: starboard spots may be utilized by entering the normal Charlie pattern, calling abeam port quarters, descending to 200ft by the astern position, continuing up the starboard side to intercept an approximate 45* angle to the spot and then straight in
Helicopter Modified Straight In: PriFly may approve a straight-in approach to the spot depending on traffic in the pattern
Helicopter Charlie Pattern
Left hand racetrack pattern on the port side of the ship. Upwind leg parallels the BRC. All aircraft shall enter the Charlie pattern as depicted in figures 6-1, 6-2, and 6-3 unless otherwise directed by PriFly or AATCC.
LHD Flight Deck
Simultaneous Well Deck Operations
When conducting simultaneous well deck operations, consideration must be given to minimizing well deck lighting because of the adverse effects of non-NVD-compatible lighting. Ships should make 1MC announcements every 30 minutes during NVD operations to remind personnel of required light discipline. For example: “All hands are reminded that NVD operations are in progress. Maintain strict light discipline throughout the ship.”
Prep Charlie
Aircraft cleared to prep Charlie shall conform to normal Charlie pattern entry procedures and once established in the pattern, conform to the racetrack pattern depicted in figures 6-1 through 6-3 until cleared by PriFly.
Combat Cargo Officer
Responsible for the safe and orderly flow of troops, passengers, mail, and cargo.
SAR equipment
- Operable hoist with rescue device
- Operable search light (for night search)
- Sufficient life rafts to support passenger rescue requirements.
Note: Helicopters performing night over-water hover operations shall be equipped with operable stabilization and automatic hover equipment, or have sufficient external reference, either natural or artificial, to enable the pilot to establish and maintain a stabilized hover.
Vertrep Locations - LHA1
- Night VERTREP/external lift operations shall only be conducted in areas A and C.
- Area A: bounded by the port elevator, that portion of the deck from the elevator’s leading edge along or outboard of the fore and aft lineup lines aft to the horizontal baseline of spot 8 and the across the flight deck to the horizontal baseline of spot 9.
- Area B: from the horizontal baseline of spot 4 aft to the leading edge of the port elevator on that portion of the deck along or outboard of the fore and aft lineup lines 4. Area C: flight deck forward of the extended horizontal baseline of spot 4.