Air Force Knowledge Flashcards
What are the ADF values?
- Service
- Courage
- Respect
- Integrity
- Excellence
What is my ROSO?
9 years beginning from the beginning of my operational conversion course
Where is RAAF initial officer course located?
RAAF Base East Sale (12 weeks)
AVMED - RAAF Base Edinburgh (1 week)
What are the 3 phases of initial officer course ?
- Military Introduction
- Education
- Application
What is in phase one of initial officer course?
- introduced to military life
- weapons qualification and martial skills
- Themes of values based behaviour, self and team leadership and follower ship explored through collaborative problem solving, self-mastery and resilience building activities
What is in phase two of initial officer course ?
- introduced to leading military teams, effectively managing a workplace and applying critical thinking
- themes of moral courage and judgement and social mastery explored
- air and space power immersion in joint environment explored
What is in phase three of initial officer course?
- consolidating what you’ve learnt in a practical combat simulated environments
- development Officer qualities explored through the application of transformational leadership
How long is Basic Pilot Course (BPC) and where is it?
24 weeks and 60 hours of flying and sim at 1FTS RAAF Base East Sale
What is involved at Basic Pilot Course (BPC) ?
- General Flying
- Night Flying
- Instrument Flying - basic
- Introduction to medium level navigation
Ground school in Aerodynamics, Aircraft systems, Airmanship, Air Power, ATC, AVMED, Cockpit Systems, Met, Morse Code and Nav
How long is Intermediate Pilot Course (IPC) and where is it?
28 weeks and approx 135 hours of flying and sim at 2FTS RAAF Base Pearce
What is involved at 2FTS?
- Developing skills from 1FTS
- Introduced to formation flying and low level NAV
- To operate and not just fly the aircraft
What are the fitness requirements for the Air Force?
20 situps and 6.1 shuttle run completed within 6 weeks prior to enlistment
What aircraft does the RAAF have/are getting?
- F-35A Lightning II
- F/A-18F Superhornet
- E/A-18G Growler
- C-27J Spartan
- C-130J Hercules
- C-17A Globemaster
- KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport
- E-7A Wedgetail
- P-8A Poseidon
- KA-350 King Air
- 737 Business Jet
- Dassault Falcon 7X
- MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft
- PC-21
- Hawk-127
- MC-55A Peregrine (future)
What are the features of the F-35A Lightning II
- Australia’s first 5th gen fighter
- Supersonic stealth: reduced engine signature, internal carriage of weapons and embedded sensors
- Pratt & Whitney F-135-PW-100 most powerful fighter engine in the world (40,000 lbs of thrust in burner)
- Electronic warfare: can locate and track enemy forces, jam radars and disrupt weapons
- Advanced sensors and data fusion allows fastest info sharing ever between sea, land and air assets
- 9G Manoeuvrability
- Advanced radar, electro-optical and IR sensors, advanced data link and voice comms
- No need for HUD, key information posted on the visor
Where is the F-35 based and how many are expected to arrive?
- 3 operation SQNs: Williamtown (3 & 77 SQN), Tindal (75 SQN), 2 OCU at Williamtown for training
- 72 aircraft which first arrived in 2018 at 3 SQN
What weapons can the F-35 carry?
- AIM-120 AMRAAM
- AIM-9X ‘Sidewinder’ short range air-to-air missile
- GBU Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) Guided bombs
- Laser guided bombs
- Internal 25mm GAU-22/A Cannon
What is the weapons payload of the F-35?
8160kg
What are the features of an E/A-18G Growler?
- Electronic attack capable of disrupting, denying and deceiving a broad range of military electronic systems, radar and comms
- still carries missiles for basic defence
- complimentary capability to F/A-18F Superhornet and F-35A Lightning II
- Goes in first and creates a ‘black cloud’
How many E/A18G Growlers are there, when were they bought and where are they located?
- 11 Growlers controlled by No.6 SQN at Amberley and operate along land, sea and air forces
- initial operation capability declared April 2019
What is the crew for an E/A-18G Growler?
Pilot and Electronic Warfare Officer
What are the features of the F/A-18F Super Hornet?
- Ensure aircombat compatibility
- Used for: air interception, air combat, close air support for troops and interception of enemy support lines
- Capable of mach 1.6
How many F/A-18F Super Hornets are active and where are they located?
- 24
- based at No.1 SQN Amberley
What is the crew of a super hornet?
- Pilot and weapon systems officer
What are the features of a C-17A Globemaster III?
- High wing 4 engine
- Up to 77 tonnes of cargo inc tanks, helicopters etc
- Used to rapidly deploy troops, supplies, combat vehicles, heavy equipment and helicopters
- Capable of Mid-air drops, and can land on unsurfaced runways as short as 3500 feet