Airfield And Flight Deck Familiarization Flashcards
Potentially life threatening on the flight line?
Jet blast, rotor arcs, propellers, and intakes.
Essential to working on the flight line?
Being FOD free, wearing PPE, being qualified, and keeping your head on a swivel.
The required flight line protective equipment include?
Flight deck safety shoes
Cranial impact helmet
Protective eye goggles
Leather gloves
Paved areas that are used for aircraft takeoff and landing?
Runways
Why do runways vary in length?
They are determined by the aircraft sizes and weights that utilize them.
These are parallel stripes on the ends of the runways?
Threshold markings
Threshold markings are how many feet wide by how many feet long? What do they designate?
12ft wide by 150ft long and designate the landing area.
Paved or un-paved section on the ends of the runways that provide a reasonably effective deceleration area for aborting or overshooting aircraft?
Overrun area
Designed to stop tricycle landing gear equipped aircraft not equipped with tail hooks?
MA-1 Series Overrun Barrier
MA-1A is always in what status?
Standby
Why is the MA-1A always in standby status?
In case there is an aborted takeoff or an emergency overrun landing
Used during in-flight emergencies that require stopping the aircraft during landing in the shortest distance possible to minimize the chance of injury to pilot or aircrew and damage to the aircraft?
Emergency shore based recovery equipment
Paved areas for aircraft to move between parking aprons, runways, and airfield services?
Taxiways
Open paved areas adjacent to hangers, fuel, services often called the flight like.
Parking apron
A paved area in a magnetically quiet area where the aircraft compass is calibrated?
Compass calibration pad (Compass Rose)
Used for parking, servicing, and loading aircraft; they are connected to runways by taxiways?
Parking apron
Runways are normally numbered in relation to?
Their magnetic heading rounded off to the nearest 10 degrees.
When the airport is below VFR weather conditions, day or night, what is used to identify the airports location?
Airfield rotating beacon
The airfield rotating beacon rotates clockwise at what speed?
A constant speed 12-15 times per minute.
Flight deck protective equipment?
Flight deck (steel-toed) safety shoes Protective jersey Cranial impact helmet Protective eye goggles Leather gloves
Yellow jerseys?
Aircraft handling officer, flight deck officer, catapult officer, air boss, arresting gear officer and plane directors
White jersey?
Safety department, air transport officer, landing signal officer, squadron plane inspectors (troubleshooters) and medical
Brown jerseys?
Plane captains
Blue jerseys?
Aircraft handling and chock crewman (chocks, chains, and tractors) and elevator operators
Green jerseys?
Catapult and arresting gear personnel, squadron aircraft maintenance personnel, helicopter landing signal enlisted-man and photographers
Red jerseys?
Crash and salvage, explosive ordinance disposal, and ordinance handling personnel
Purple jersey?
Aviation fuel crew
Identified by a 12-inch wide red stripe with a white 3-inch _____ stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming
PKP
Identified by an 18-inch wide red stripe with a yellow 3-inch high ____ stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming?
Saltwater stations
Identified by a 12-inch wide red stripe with a white 3-inch high ____ stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming?
CO2 bottle stowage
Identified by an 18-inch wide green stripe with white 3-inch high _____ stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming?
AFFF Station
Ramps designated to eliminate loose ordinance will have a yellow stripe painted up and over the deck edge at both ends of the ramp opening?
Bomb jettison ramp
Identified by an 18-inch black stripe with a 3” white _____ stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming?
Steam smothering
