Phase III, Block VIII - Missions

Question 1

What is CASE 1?

Answer 1

Anticipated that flights will NOT encounter IMC during DAYTIME departure/recovery, and the ceiling and visibility around the carrier are no lower than 3,000 ft and five nautical miles.

Question 2

What is CASE 2?

Answer 2

Anticipated that flights MAY encounter IMCs during DAYTIME departure/recovery, and the ceiling and visibility is carrier control zone are no lower than 1,000 ft and five nautical miles

OVERCAST

Question 3

What is CASE 3?

Answer 3

Anticipated that flights WILL encounter IMCs during a departure/recovery because the ceiling or visibility around the carrier are LOWER than 1,000 Ft and five nautical miles.

BAD WEATHER or NIGHT FLIGHTS

Question 4

What is IFR?

Answer 4

Instrumental Flight Rules

-Rules for governing the procedures for conducting instrument flight.

Question 5

What is IMC?

Answer 5

Instrumental Meteorological Conditions:

-(Blind Flying) referred to flying in clouds, bad weather, or at night.

Question 6

What is VFR?

Answer 6

Visual Flight Rules:

-Rules that govern the procedures for conducting flights under visual conditions.

Question 7

What is VMC?

Answer 7

Visual Meteorological Conditions:
-VMCs are those in which VFR flight is permitted or expressed in terms of visibility, ceiling height, and aircraft clearance from clouds along the path of flight.

Question 8

What are the duties of the Air Officer?

Answer 8

(Air Boss): responsible for all aspects of operations involving aircraft including hangar deck, the flight deck, and airborne aircraft out of five nautical miles from the carrier.

Question 9

What are the duties of the Aircraft Handling Officer?

Answer 9

(Handler, ACHO): responsible for arrangement of aircraft about the flight and hangar decks.

Question 10

What are the duties of the Aircraft Directors?

Answer 10

Responsible for directing all aircraft movement on the hangar and flight decks.

Question 11

What are the duties of the Arresting Gear Officer?

Answer 11

(AGO): Responsible for arresting gear operation, settings, and monitoring landing area deck status.

Question 12

What are the duties of the Catapult Officer?

Answer 12

(Shooters): Usually Naval aviators or NFOs and responsible for all aspects of catapult maintenance and operation.

Question 13

What is CATCC?

Answer 13

Carrier Air Traffic Control Center:
-Maintains the primary control of airborne aircraft operating from the carrier and responsible for the status and upkeep of all carrier air operations.

Question 14

What is CQ

Answer 14

Carrier Qualifications:
-Purpose is to give pilots a dedicated opportunity to develop fundamental skills associated with operating fixed-wing, carrier-based aircraft.

Question 15

What are Cyclic Operations?

Answer 15

Launching and recovering of aircraft in groups of “cycles.”

Question 16

What are the duties of the LSO?

Answer 16

Landing Signal Officer: Experienced Pilot who is responsible for the visual control of aircraft in the terminal phase of approach immediately prior to landing.

Question 17

What is MOVLAS?

Answer 17

Manually Operated Visual Landing Aid System:
- A vertical series of orange lamps manually controlled by the Landing signal officer with hand controller to stimulate the ball.

Question 18

What is FLOLS?

Answer 18

Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System:
-(Meatball, Ball or “The Source”) used to give glide path information to pilots in the terminal phase of landing on an aircraft carrier.

Question 19

What are Wave-Off lights?

Answer 19

Red Flashing lamps which, when lit, indicate that the pilot must add full power and go around.

Question 20

What is ACM?

Answer 20

Aircraft Combat Maneuvers:
-Art of maneuvering a combat aircraft in order to attain a position from which an attack can be made on another aircraft.

Question 21

What is BFM?

Answer 21

Basic Flight Maneuvers:

-Tactical movements performed by fighter aircraft during ACM, in order to gain positional advantage over the opponent.

Question 22

What is FCF?

Answer 22

Functional Check Flight:
-Determines whether an aircraft airframe, engine, accessories, or equipment is functioning according to established standards.

Question 23

What is FCLP

Answer 23

Field Controlled Landing Practice:

-Aircraft practices to simulate carrier landings

Question 24

What is a Ferry?

Answer 24

flights that involve relocating an aircraft from one location to another.

Question 25

What is OMS?

Answer 25

Off-Board Mission Support:
-Aircrew spend extensive time planning their missions before each flight. The software used for mission planning is called OMS

Question 26

What is Red Air?

Answer 26

Training mission to provide support for training pilots In air to air combat.

Question 27

What is SEM?

Answer 27

Section Engaged Maneuvering:
-Flights which are dedicated to training in the WVR environment in which a section will practice a CAP mission while red air attempts to gain advantage.

Question 28

What is SSC?

Answer 28

Surface Search Contact:
-Missions flown around the aircraft carrier which are dedicated to searching, identifying, and collecting information on surface ships

Question 29

What is TI?

Answer 29

Tactical Intercept:

-Training missions that involve employing tactics BVR to prosecute red forces.

Question 30

What is OCA?

Answer 30

Offensive Counter AIR:
-Sweep mission into enemy territory to suppress an enemy’s military air power by destroying or disabling the aircraft, preferably on the ground.

Question 31

What is CAP?

Answer 31

Combat Air Patrol:
-Aircraft patrol provided over an objective area, over the force protected, over the critical area of a combat zone, or over an air defense area.

Question 32

What is DCA?

Answer 32

Defensive Counter Air:

-Air mission which is defensive in mindset.

Question 33

What is CAS?

Answer 33

Close Air Support:
-A mission to support friendly ground forces executing operations against hostile enemy forces by providing support overhead the battlefield.

Question 34

What is SEAD?

Answer 34

Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses:
-Function is to neutralize, destroy, or temporarily degrade the enemy air defenses (SAMs) in or around the target area by physical attack and/or EW.

Question 35

What is CSAR?

Answer 35

Combat Search and Rescue:

-A search and rescue mission flown into hostile territory.