History Flashcards
The year Duffy announced plan for aviation unit
1970
ASTREA stands for:
Aerial Support to Regional Enforcement Agencies
Month and year of the first Bell 47’s
December 1971
Concept was and still is to:
Provide air support to LE and Fire agencies in SD at no cost to those agencies
Area of SD covered:
4200 sq miles
Staffing at ASTREA:
1 Capt. 1 LT 2 Sergeants 2 Corporals 11 Deps 1 clerk 5 mechanics 2 Fuel truck drivers/mechanics 1 part time Maintenance officer
Hours of operation:
365 days from 0700-0300 hours
Fleet size and type:
2- Bell 407’s (one glass model “GX”)
2- Bell 205’s
3- MD 530F’s
1- MD 500D
Fuel facilities and sizes:
AB 30,000 gallons
Fallbrook 4,000 gallons
San Marcos 1,000 gallons
Split Mountain 600 gallons
How many fuel trucks?
2
Helicopter equipment:
FLIR Moving map NVG's Video Downlink Lo-Jac (in all aircraft now) Search light
When was AB opened?
2002
Square footage of AB?
30,000
AB home to which 5 units?
ASTREA, SED, SAR, Emergency Planning, CDF fire crews
Fuel trucks built by:
Freightliner
How many gallons in fuel trucks?
1,200 and 4,000 gallons
Pat Coyle lighted helo pad located where?
San Marcos Station
FLIR acronym
Forward Looking InfraRed
How FLIR works?
Detects differences in heat and shows white as hot
Layers of moving map?
Thomas Bros, topographical, airspace
Brand of NVG’s?
Anvis 9
How NVG’s work?
Amplifies light 30,000 times. Turns night into day.
11 Mission types:
Aerial LE SAR Fire suppression Marijuana location/interdiction Photo flights Transportation Flights Directed patrol Public Relations External sling loads Surveillance Beat familiarization flights
Law enforcement support mission:
Crimes in progress, mission persons, proactive patrols, surveillance, tactical ops
SAR missions:
Locating lost, injured, or person in distress, rescues
Hoist- how long and capacity?
250’ and 600lbs
Decade of one skid and toe-in procedures?
1980’s
Long line for what reasons?
Body recovery, marijuana, moving equipment
Bambi bucket capacity?
120 gallons
Both 205’s bought from where?
Eagle Helicopters from Canada
Bell 205 equipment?
Fixed external 375 gallons tank, foam tank, hoist
Copter 10 crew?
ASTREA pilot, CalFire Capt, CalFire rescue specialist
Copter12 crew?
ASTREA pilot, CalFire Capt (winter), heli-tax crew (summer)
How are 205’s staged during fire months?
1 at Fallbrook and 1 at AB
