Phase 1 Block 7

Question 1

What type of equipment is required for personnel working on the flight line?

Answer 1

Safety equipment

Question 2

What safety equipment is issued to personnel working on the flight line?

Answer 2

Flight deck safety boots, Cranial impact helmet, Protective eye goggles, leather gloves

Question 3

What is the runway?

Answer 3

Paved areas that are used for aircraft take off and Landing, runways vary in length determined by aircraft sizes

Question 4

What is an MA-1 series overrun barrier?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What is a compass calibration pad?

Answer 5

Paved area in a magnetically quiet area where aircraft compass is calibrated

Question 6

What is the runway numbering system?

Answer 6

Runways are normally numbered in relation to their magnetic heading rounded off to the nearest 10 degrees

Question 7

What is an airfield rotating beacon?

Answer 7

Airport is below VFR weather conditions, day / night, rotating beacon is used to identify airports location

Military airfields use two white lights in one green flashing 12 to 15 times per minute

Question 8

What are some life-threatening hazards present during flight operations?

Answer 8

Jet intakes/exhaust

Rotor/ propeller arcs

Question 9

What is used to quickly recognize personnel on the flight deck?

Answer 9

Color coded Jersey classification system

Question 10

Who wears the yellow Jersey?

Answer 10

Handlers, Flight Deck officer, catapult officer, Air Bos’n, arresting gear officer, plane directors.

Question 11

Who wears a white jersey?

Answer 11

Safety department (with Green Cross), Air transport officer, LSO, squadron plain inspector, medical (with red cross)

Question 12

Who wears the brown Jersey?

Answer 12

Plane captains

Question 13

Who wears a blue jersey?

Answer 13

Chocks and chains, tractors, elevator operators

Question 14

Who wears a green jersey?

Answer 14

Catapult/arresting gear personnel, photographers, maintenance personnel, helicopter landing signalman - enlisted

Question 15

Who wears a red jersey?

Answer 15

Crash/salvage, EOD, AOs’

Question 16

Who wears a purple jersey?

Answer 16

Fuels

Question 17

How is PKP identified with a coaming?

Answer 17

12” wide red stripe with a 3” high “PKP” stenciled in center of stripe

Question 18

How is a salt water station identified with a coaming?

Answer 18

18” wide red stripe with a yellow 3” high “W” stenciled in center of stripe

Question 19

How is a CO2 bottle stowage identified with a coaming?

Answer 19

12” inch wide red stripe with a white 3” high “CO2” stenciled in center of stripe

Question 20

How is an AFFF station identified with a coaming?

Answer 20

18” wide green stripe with a 3” high “AFFF” stenciled in center of stripe

Question 21

How is PKP identified without a coaming?

Answer 21

White 18” diameter circle with a red 5” high PKP painted

Question 22

How is a salt water station identified without a coaming?

Answer 22

Red triangle 18” per side with a yellow “W” painted

Question 23

How is CO2 bottle stowage identified without a coaming?

Answer 23

White 18” diameter circle with a red 5” high CO2 painted

Question 24

How is an AFFF identified without a coaming?

Answer 24

Green 18” square with white 3” high “AFFF” painted

Question 25

What is a Bomb Jettison Ramp?

Answer 25

Ramps designated to eliminate loose ordnance

Question 26

How are Bomb Jettison Ramps Identified?

Answer 26

Yellow stripe painted up and over deck edge at both ends of ramp

The flight deck in front of ramp opening is marked with alternating 4” wide red/yellow stripes with a 12” black facsimile of a bomb centered

Question 27

How is Steam Smothering Identified?

Answer 27

18” black stripe with a 3” white “STEAM” stenciled in center of stripe on wheel stop coaming