CDC Vol 3, 401 & 402 Flashcards
- What three steps does tracking involve?
- Determine a target exists
- Initiate a track on the target
- Ensure the track continuity is preserved
- How do you separate valid radar returns from “noise”?
By looking for a data trail
- Why should every track have its own unique track number?
The track number is what we use when referring to tracks. Having more than one would be confusing.
- What is track continuity?
Making sure tracks stay with data.
- What do you do if you are no longer receiving data on a track.
- Check to see if their are any airbases or civilian runways in the area.
- If you are confident the track has landed, report the landing and drop the track when you get approval.
- If you are not confident the track has landed, report the lost track and extrapolate the track for five minutes.
- Start 402: What is the quickest and most effective way of reporting tracks?
Automatically, via data link.
When voice telling tracks, how do you report altitude, heading, and speed?
- Altitude in 100-foot increments prefaced with its source
- Heading in magnetic degrees
- Speed in 10-knot increments
What are the “normal” altitude sources used to report altitude in voice-tell?
- Measured
- Reported
- Unknown
- Estimated
- What type of information do you never pass over unsecured radios?
- Range or classification of the system you are operating
- Existence of electronic attack (EA)
- Mode 1 or 2 codes
- In short, do not pass classified information
If the data link is down, how to you pass the track information to other units?
Voice tell procedures
What are the 4 types of “Tell”?
1 - Forward Tell
2 - Lateral Tell
3 - Overlap Tell
4 - Back Tell
What type of tell is used to pass air surveillance information to a higher echelon in the control and warning system?
Forward tell
What type of tell provides adjacent stations with track information approaching tracks?
Lateral tell
- What type of tell is used when a radar station detects a target in an adjacent station’s area, which is not being carried in the area?
Overlap tell
What type of tell provides air surveillance data and is passed from a higher echelon to a lower echelon?
Back tell
Once lateral tell has started, when would you stop lateral tell?
When a unit requests a cease tell.
In the case of overlapping coverage, how is track number assigned and which unit would forward tell the track?
- Track numbers are assigned by the station in the area where the track originated.
- The track is forward told by the originating unit.
- What are the three kinds of reports in telling?
- New track
- Revision
- Drop track
What lines does the revision tell report typically include from the New Track Report?
Lines 2-6, 13, and 15
How many lines are in a typical New Track Report?
15
What are the Tell Priorities (I teach them as the Surveillance Priorities)?
- Priority 1: Hostile, EW, and Faker tracks
- Priority 2: Unknown and pending
- Priority 3: All Emergencies
- Priority 4: Interceptor tracks that are not paired against threats
- Priority 5: VIPs, Friend tracks, and special mission tracks
- What three tell priorities are considered critical class tracks?
Priorities 1,2, and 3
- What are two opposites of situational awareness?
- Tunnel vision
2. Target fixation
What is it called when an operator concentrates on one task while neglecting others?
Tunnel vision
What is it called when an operator pays so much attention to one or two tracks that others go undetected or tracking continuity is lost ?
Target fixation
