CNAF 3710 Definitions Flashcards
Actual Instrument Approach Definition
When actual instrument conditions are encountered below 1,000 feet above the airport/flight deck elevation during an instrument approach.
Actual Instrument Conditions Definition
Conditions external to the aircraft in flight that do not permit visual reference to the horizon.
Crew Resource Management Definition
The use of specifically defined behavioral skills as an integral part of every flight to improve mission effectiveness by minimizing crew preventable errors, maximizing crew coordination, and optimizing risk management.
Cross Country Flight Definition
A flight that either does not remain in the local flying area or remains in the local flying area and terminates at a facility other than an active military facility.
Flight Definition
- For operational purposes, a flight is one or more aircraft proceeding on a common mission.
- For helicopters, a flight begins when the aircraft lifts from a rest point or commences ground taxi and ends after airborne flight when the rotors are disengaged or the aircraft has been stationary for 5 minutes with rotors engaged.
Note: flight time on repetitive evolutions such as FDLP, passenger/cargo stops, and carrier qualifications shall be logged from the time the aircraft takes off until the aircraft has been on the surface for 5 minute after each evolution flown.
Formation Flight Definition
A flight of more than one aircraft operating by prior arrangement as a single aircraft with regard to altitude, navigation, and position reporting, and where separation between aircraft within the flight rests with the pilots in that flight.
Hazard Definition
A condition with the potential to cause personal injury or death, property damage, or mission degradation.
Insturment Meteorological Conditions
Meteorological conditions expressed in terms of visibility, distance from clouds, and ceiling less than the minimums specified for visual meteorological conditions.
IMC conditions exist anytime a visible horizon is not distinguishable.
Instrument Time Definition
The portion of pilot time in either day or night under actual or simulated instrument conditions.
- Actual instrument time will be logged by both pilots in a dual/multipiloted aircraft during flight in actual instrument conditions.
- Simulated instrument time shall be logged only by the pilot actually manipulating the controls.
Multipiloted Aircraft Definition
Any aircraft having two sets of flight controls and instruments and operated by two pilots, both of who met the requirements of the NATOPS manual for the model aircraft.
Night Time Definition
The portion of pilot time during darkness (ie. between the official time of sunset and sunrise, regardless of whether visual or instrument conditions exist)
Oceanic Definition
A situation where an aircraft has no radio communication and is greater than 250 nm from the nearest navaid.
Operation Necessity Definition
A mission associated with war or peacetime operation in which the consequences of an action justify accepting the risk of loss of aircraft and crew.
Operation Risk Management Definition
The process of dealing with the risk associated with military operations, which include risk assessment, risk decision making, and implementation of effective risk controls.
Pilot in Command Definition
The pilot assigned responsibility for safe and orderly conduct of the flight.
Precautionary Landing Definition
A premeditated landing, on or off an airport, when further flight is possible but inadvisable.
Risk Definition
An expression of possible loss in terms of severity and probability.
Risk Assessment Definition
The process of detecting hazards and assessing associated risks.
Warning Definition
Explanatory information about an operating procedure, practice, or condition, etc, that may result in injury, death, or loss of aircraft if not carefully observed or followed.
