Airfield And Flight Deck Familiarization

Question 0

What are runways?

Answer 0

Paved areas used for takeoff and landing

Question 1

What is required flight line protective equipment?

Answer 1

Flight deck (steel-toed) safety shoes
Cranial impact helmet
Protective eye goggles
Leather gloves

Question 2

What are Threshold Markings?

Answer 2

Parallel stripes on the ends of runways that designate the landing area.
12 ft wide by 150 ft long

Question 3

What is the overrun area?

Answer 3

Paved or unpaved section on the end of the runways for aborting or overshooting aircraft.

Question 4

What is the MA-1 series overrun barrier for?

Answer 4

To stop tricycle landing gear equipped aircraft not equipped with tail hooks.

Question 5

What is emergency shore based recovery equipment?

Answer 5

Used during inflight emergencies that may require stopping of an aircraft during landing in the shortest distance possible to minimize damage to aircraft and injury to pilots and aircrew.

Question 6

What are taxiways?

Answer 6

Paved areas for aircraft to move between parking aprons, runways and airfield services.

Question 7

What is the parking apron?

Answer 7

The flight line.

Question 8

What is the compass calibration pad?

Answer 8

A paved area in a magnetically quiet area where the aircraft is calibrated.

Question 9

How are runways numbered?

Answer 9

In relation to their magnetic heading and rounded to the nearest 10 degrees.

Question 10

What is used for pilots to identify an airport in VFR weather conditions?

Answer 10

Airfield rotating beacon

Question 11

How does the airfield rotating beacon rotate?

Answer 11

Clockwise. 12 to 15 times per minute.

Question 12

What is required flight deck protective equipment?

Answer 12

Flight deck (steel-toed) safety shoes
Protective jersey
Cranial impact helmet
Protective eye goggles
Leather gloves

Question 13

Who wear yellow jerseys?

Answer 13

Aircraft handling officer, catapult officer, air bos’n, arresting gear officer, and plane directors.

Question 14

Who wears white jerseys?

Answer 14

Safety department, air transport officer, landing signal officer, squadron plane inspectors (trouble shooters) and medical.

Question 15

Who wears brown jerseys?

Answer 15

Plane captains

Question 16

Who wears Blue jerseys?

Answer 16

Aircraft handling and chock crewmen, elevator operators

Question 17

Who wears green jerseys?

Answer 17

Catapult and arresting gear personnel, squadron aircraft maintenance personnel, helicopter landing signal enlisted-man and photographers.

Question 18

Who wears red jerseys?

Answer 18

Crash and salvage, EOD, and ordains handling personnel.

Question 19

Who wears purple jerseys?

Answer 19

Aviation fuel crew.

Question 20

How are PKP stations identified with and without wheel stop coamings installed?

Answer 20

With - 12-inch red stripe, white stencil

Without - white circle, red stencil

Question 21

How are saltwater stations identified with and without wheel stop coamings installed?

Answer 21

With - 18-inch red stripe, yellow “W”

Without - red triangle, yellow “W”

Question 22

How are CO2 stations identified with and without wheel stop coamings installed?

Answer 22

With - 12-inch red stripe, white stencil

Without - white circle, red stencil

Question 23

How are AFFF stations identified with and without wheel stop coamings installed?

Answer 23

With - 18-inch green stripe, white stencil

Without - green square, white stencil

Question 24

How are bomb jettison ramps identified?

Answer 24

Red and yellow stripes on flight deck with black bomb stencil. Yellow stripes over deck-edge.

Question 25

How are steam smothering stations identified?

Answer 25

18-inch black stripe, white “STEAM”