Airfield and Flight Deck Familiarization

Question 1

Safety Equipment:

Answer 1

Anytime personnel are working on the flight line they will be issued the proper safety equipment. The required flight line protective equipment will include the following items:

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

Question 2

Runways:

Answer 2

Paved areas that are used for aircraft takeoff and landing. Runways vary in length at each airfield as determined by the aircraft sizes and weights that will be utilizing them.

Question 3

Threshold Markings:

Answer 3

These are parallel stripes on the ends of the runways. The stripes are 12 feet wide by 150 feet long and designate the landing area.

Question 4

Overrun Area:

Answer 4

Paved or un-paved section on the ends of the runways that provide a reasonably effective deceleration area for aborting or overshooting aircraft.

Question 5

MA-1 Series Overrun Barrier:

Answer 5

Designed to stop tricycle landing gear equipped aircraft not equipped with tail hooks. The MA-1A is always in a standby status, in case there is an aborted takeoff or an emergency overrun landing.

Question 6

Emergency shore based recovery equipment:

Answer 6

Used during in-flight emergencies that requires 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.

Question 7

Taxiways:

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Parking Apron:

Answer 8

Open paved areas adjacent to hangers, fuel, services often called the flight line. Used for parking, servicing, and loading aircraft; they are connected to the runways by taxiways.

Question 9

Compass calibration pad (Compass Rose):

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Runway numbering system:

Answer 10

Runways are normally numbered in relation to their magnetic heading rounded off to the nearest 10 degrees, i.e., a runway heading of 250 degree is runway 25. If there are 2 runways whose centerline is parallel, the runway will be identified as L (left) and R (right) or 25L or 25R, if there are 3 parallel runways C (center) is added.

Question 11

Airfield rotating beacon:

Answer 11

When the airport is below VFR weather conditions, day or night, the airport rotating beacon is used to identify the airport’s location. It rotates clockwise at a constant speed and military airfields use 2 white lights and one green flashing 12 to 15 times per minute.

Question 12

Flight Deck Safety:

Answer 12

A few of the hazards and safety concerns are oil, grease, and fuel which create slip hazards on the deck and ladderwells. Also jet intakes and exhaust, rotor and propellers arcs are the life threatening hazards present during flight operations. The vast myriad of hazards to personnel and equipment underline the importance PPE and situational awareness have on flight deck safety.

Question 13

Safety Equipment:

Answer 13

Anytime personnel are required to work on the flight deck they will be issued the proper safety equipment. The required flight deck protective equipment will include the following items:

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

Question 14

Yellow Jerseys:

Answer 14

Aircraft Handling Officer, Flight Deck Officer, Catapult Officer, Air Bos’n, Arresting Gear Officer and Plane directors.

Question 15

White Jerseys:

Answer 15

Safety department, Air Transport Officer, Landing Signal Officer, Squadron Plane Inspectors (troubleshooters) and medical.

Question 16

Brown Jerseys:

Answer 16

Plane Captains.

Question 17

Blue Jerseys:

Answer 17

Aircraft Handling and Chock Crewman (Chocks, Chains and Tractors) and Elevator Operators.

Question 18

Green Jerseys:

Answer 18

Catapult and Arresting Gear personnel, Squadron Aircraft Maintenance personnel, Helicopter Landing Signal Enlisted-man and Photographers.

Question 19

Red Jerseys:

Answer 19

Crash and Salvage, Explosive Ordnance Disposal, and Ordnance handling personnel.

Question 20

Purple Jerseys:

Answer 20

Fuel crew.

Question 21

Purple K Powder (PKP):

Answer 21

Identified by a 12-inch wide red stripe with a white 3-inch high ―PKP‖ stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming. At locations where coamings are not installed, a white 18-inch diameter circle with red 5-inch high ―PKP‖ letters is painted on the flight deck.

Question 22

Saltwater Stations:

Answer 22

Identified by an 18-inch wide red stripe with a yellow 3-inch high ―W‖ stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming. At locations where coamings are not installed, a red triangle 18-inches per side with a yellow ―W‖ is painted on the flight deck.

Question 23

CO2 Bottle Stowage:

Answer 23

Identified by a 12-inch wide red stripe with a white 3- inch high ―CO2‖ stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming. At locations where coamings are not installed, a white 18-inch diameter circle with a red 5-inch high ―CO2‖ is painted on the flight deck.

Question 24

AFFF Station:

Answer 24

Identified by an 18-inch wide green stripe with white 3-inch high ―AFFF‖ stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming. At locations where coamings are not installed, a green 18-inch square with white 3-inch high ―AFFF‖ letters is painted on the flight deck.

Question 25

Bomb Jettison Ramp:

Answer 25

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. The flight deck in front of the ramp opening is marked with alternating 4-inch wide red and yellow stripes with a 12-inch black facsimile of a bomb centered.

Question 26

Steam Smothering:

Answer 26

Identified by an 18 ‖ black stripe with a 3 ‖ white ‖ STEAM ‖ stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming.