Airfield and Fligh Deck Familiarization Flashcards
What are the safety guidlines for airfield/flightline and the flight deck?
Safety concerns are the same for flight line and flight deck. Jet blast, rotor arcs, propellers and jet intakes are potentially life threatening. Being FOD free, wearing PPE, being qualified, and keeping head on a swivel are essential.
What safety PPE is required on the flight line?
Flight deck (steel toed) safety shoes
Cranial impact helmet
Protective eye goggles
Leather gloves
What are runways?
paved areas that are used for aircraft takeoff and landing.
What are threshold markings?
Parallel stripes on the ends of runways designating the landing area.
What is the overrun area?
Paved or un-paved section on the ends of runways that provide a reasonably effective deceleration area for aborting or overshooting aircraft.
What is the MA-1 Series overrunn barrier?
Designed to stop tricycle landing gear equipped aircraft not equipped with tail hooks. Always in standby.
What is emergency shore based recovery equipment?
In-flight emergencies that requires stopping the aircraft in the shortest distance possible to minimize chance of injury to pilot, crew or aircraft damage
What are taxiways?
Paved areas for aircraft to move between parking aprons, runways and airfield services
What is a parking apron?
Open paved areas adjacent to hangers, fuel, services often called the flight line.
What is the compass calibration pad?
Compass Rose
A paved area in a magnetically quiet area where the aircraft compass is calibrated.
What is the runway numbering system?
Runways are numbered in relation to their magnetic heading. Runways that are parallel are identified with a L (left), R (right) and C (center) in front of the number.
What is the airfield rotating beacon?
When the airport is below VFR weather conditions, day or night, the beacon is used to identify the airports location. Military airfields use 2 white lights and green flash.
What are the safety concerns while working on the flight deck?
Oil, grease, and fuel which create slip hazards. Jet intakes and ekhaust, rotor and propellers arcs are life threatening present during flight operations.
The required flightdeck protective equipment includes?
Flightdeck (steel-toed) safety boots Protective jersey Cranial impact helmet Protective eye goggles Leather gloves
What are the seven protective jerseys used on the flight deck?
Yellow White Brown Blue Green Red Purple
Who wears yellow jerseys?
Aircrafte heandling officer Flight deck officer Catapult officer Air bos'n Arresting gear officer Plane directors
Who wears white jerseys?
Safety department Air Transport officer Landing Signal officer Squadron Plane inspectors (troubleshooters) Medical
Who wears brown jerseys?
Plane captains
Who wears blue jerseys?
Aircraft handling and chock crewman
Elevator operators
Whos wears green jerseys?
Catapult and arresting gear personnel
Squadron aircraft maintenance personnel
Helicopter landing signal enlisted-man
Photographers
Who wears red jerseys?
Crash and salvage
Explosive ordenance disposal
Ordnance handling personnel
Who wears purple jerseys?
Aviation fuel crew
What are the firefighting agents you will find on a flightdeck?
Purple K Powder (PKP) Saltwater Stations CO2 bottle stowage AFFF station Bomb jettison ramp Steam smothering
What are the marking for PKP on a flightdeck?
12 inch wide red stripe with a white 3-ich high pkp on wheel stop coaming.
Or white 18-inch diameter circle with red 5-inch high PKP on the flight deck.
What are the marking for saltwater station on a flightdeck?
18-inch wide red stripe with yellow 3-inch W on wheel stop coaming.
Or red triangle 18-inches per side with yellow W
What are the marking for co2 bottle stowage on a flightdeck?
12-inch wide red stripe with a white 3-inch co2 on wheel stop coaming
white 18-inch diameter circle with red 5-inch co2
What are the marking for AFFF station on a flightdeck?
18-inch wide green stripe with white 3-inch AFFF on wheel stop coaming
green 18-inch square with white 3-inch AFFF
What are the marking for Bomb Jettison Ramps on the flightdeck?
ramps will have a yellow strip painted up and over the deck edge at both ends of the ramp opening. the opening is marked with alternating 4-inch wide red and yellow stripes with a 12-inch black bomb.
What are the marking for steam smothering on the flightdeck?
18-inch black stipe with a 3-inch white words STEAM stenciled
