Block 7 - Airfield and Flight Deck Familiarization Flashcards
What is essential to personal learning how to perform their duties for their personal safety and the safety of the aircrew?
Airfield familiarization
What are the required Flightline protective equipment?
Flightdeck (steel-toed) Safety Shoes
Cranial impact helmet
Protective eye goggles
Leather gloves
What are paved areas that are used for aircraft takeoff and Landing?
Runways
What are parallel stripes on the ends of the runways that are 12 ft wide by 150 ft long and designate the landing area?
Threshold markings
What is a paved or unpaved section on the ends of the runways that provide a reasonably effective deceleration area for aborting or overshooting aircraft?
Overrun area
What is designed to stop tricycle landing gear recorded aircraft not equipped with tail hooks?
MA - 1 series overrun barrier
What is always in a standby status, in case there is an aborted takeoff or an emergency overrun Landing?
MA - 1A
What is 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
What are paved areas for aircraft to move between parking aprons, runways, and Air Field Services?
Taxiways
What are open paved areas adjacent to hangers, Fuel, Services often called the flight line and use for parking, servicing and loading aircraft they are connected to The Runaways by taxiways?
Parking apron
What is a paved area in a magnetically quiet area where the aircraft Compass is calibrated?
Compass calibration pad (compass rose)
These are normally numbered in relation to their magnetic heading rounded off to the nearest 10 degrees
Runway numbering system
When the aircraft is below VFR weather conditions, day or night, what is used to identify the airport’s location?
Airfield rotating Beacon
What are the required Flight Deck protective equipment?
Flightdeck (steel-toed) Safety Shoes Protective Jersey Cranial impact helmet Protective eye goggles Leather gloves
Who wears yellow jerseys?
Air handling officer Flight Deck officer Catapult officer Air BOSN Arresting gear officer Plane directors
Who wears white jerseys?
Safety department Air transport officer Landing signal officer Squadron plane inspectors (troubleshooters) Medical
What color jersey is used by plane captains?
Brown jerseys
Who wears blue jerseys?
Aircraft handling
Chock crewman (chocks, chains and tractors)
Elevator operators
Who wears green jerseys?
Catapulting and arresting gear personnel
Squadron aircraft maintenance personnel
Helicopter landing signal enlisted man
Photographers
Who wears red jerseys?
Crash & Salvage
Explosive Ordnance disposal
Ordnance handling personnel
What color jersey is used by the aviation fuel crew?
Purple jerseys
What firefighting agent is identified by a 12in wide red stripe with a white 3in high letters stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming?
Purple K powder (PKP)
What is identified by an 18in wide red stripe with a yellow 3in high W stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming?
Saltwater stations
What is identified by a 12-inch red stripe with a white 3 inch high letters settled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming?
CO2 bottle stowage
What is identified by an 18 in wide Green Stripe with white 3 inch high letters stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming?
AFFF station
What are 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
What is identified by an 18 inch black stripe with a 3-inch White STEAM stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming?
Steam smothering
