Acronyms for BWS - Nighttime Flashcards
1
Q
Night Flight Requirements:
- Weather
- Equipment
A
CCW / A6-C3-F3-SPLITH
Weather
- Ceiling/visibility
- Cloud clearance
- Winds
Equipment
- Attitude indicator
- Airspeed indicator
- Anti collision light
- Altimeter - pressure
- Altimeter - radar
- AHARS
- Clock
- Commo
- Compas - magnetic
- Flashlight
- Fuel quantity indicator
- Free air temp
- Standby instruments
- Position lights
- Landing/search light
- Instrument lights
- Transponder
- Heading indicator
2
Q
Night use of light:
A
FLAPII
- Flashlight
- Landing light /search light
- Anti collision light
- position lights
- interior lights
- IR Band-pass filter
3
Q
Dark Adaption:
A
D-on’t S-top S-inging T-o T-he T-rack
- Definition
- Starting level
- Sensitivity
- Time to adapt
- Time to readapt (after exposure to light)
- Time to readapt (after removing googles)
4
Q
Night vision Protective equipment:
A
ROS
- Red lightning/red lens googles
- Oxygen
- Sunglasses
5
Q
Night vision Protective measures:
A
CEL-CAAR
- Cockpit lightning
- Exterior lightning
- Light flash compensation
- Close one eye
- Alter Course
- Automatic weapons fire
- Turn away from lights
6
Q
Precautions at airfields:
A
LAMPS
- Lanes for hovering
- Airfield lighting
- Maintenance personnel
- Position aircraft
- Select Departure routes
7
Q
Types of vision:
A
- Photopic
- Mesopic
- Scotopic
8
Q
Night vision techniques:
A
SOS
- Scanning
- Off center vision
- Shapes and silhouettes
9
Q
NVG characteristics:
A
DIALVP
- Definition
- Intensification
- Acuity
- Limited field of view
- Voltage low indicator
- Power supply
10
Q
NVG Visual deficiencies:
- Operational defects
- Cosmetic blemishes
A
FESE / II-BB-CFO
Operational defects:
- Flashing/flickering and intermittent operation
- Edge glow
- Shading
- Emission points
Cosmetic blemishes
- Image distortion
- Image disparity
- Bright spots
- Black Spots
- Chicken wire
- Fixed pattern noise
- Output brightness variation
11
Q
NVG operational considerations:
A
CAL-PET MWWADSOS
- Color discrimination
- Air/ground speed limits
- Lights
- Performance relations
- Effects of bright lights
- Tunnel vision
- Magnification
- Weather
- Weapons
- Aircraft lightning
- Depth perception and distance estimation
- Scanning techniques
- Obstruction Detection
- Spatial disorientation
12
Q
Visual illusions:
A
F-ire F-ire F-ire CRASH CRAS
- Flicker vertigo
- False horizons
- Fascination/fixation
- Confusion w/ground lights
- Relative motion
- Altered planes of reference
- Size-Distance
- Height-depth perception
- Crater illusion
- Autokinesis
- Reversible perspective
- Structural
13
Q
Distance estimation and depth perception:
- Binocular vision
- monocular vision
A
G(LAV)R(KITO)A(VLL)M
- Geometric perspective
- Linear perspective
- Apparent Foreshortening
- Vertical position in the field
- Retinal image size
- Known size of objects
- Increasing/decreasing size
- Terrestrial Association
- Overlapping contours
- Aerial perspective
- Variations in color or shade
- Loss of detail or texture
- Light source position/shadow direction
- Motion parallax
14
Q
Self imposed stressors:
A
DEATH
- Drugs
- Exhaustion
- Alcohol
- Tobacco
- Hypoglycemia
