SAR / IFER Emergency Phases Flashcards
MATS 4.2.3
Uncertainty of an aircraft’s safety exists. Which emergency phase should you declare?
Uncertainty Phase
Apprehension of an aircraft’s safety exists. Which emergency phase should you declare?
Alert Phase
Reasonable certainty that an aircraft is in danger exists. Which emergency phase should you declare?
Distress Phase
When should you commence communication checks for an aircraft failing to report departure after a call notifying readiness to taxi or take-off?
10 minutes after taxiing call
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft failing to report departure after a call notifying readiness to taxi or take-off?
Which phase should you declare?
15 minutes after taxiing call
Uncertainty Phase
When should you commence communication checks for an aircraft failing to report departure after an airborne call?
5 minutes after airborne call
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft failing to report departure after an airborne call?
Which phase should you declare?
10 minutes after airborne call
Uncertainty Phase
When should you commence communication checks for an aircraft failing to report position or scheduled report, including NOCOM cancellation time or OPS NORMAL time?
3 minutes after report due
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft failing to report position or scheduled report, including NOCOM cancellation time or OPS NORMAL time?
Which phase should you declare?
15 minutes after report due
Uncertainty Phase
When should you commence communication checks for an aircraft failing to report after a frequency change?
3 minutes after call due
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft failing to report after a frequency change?
Which phase should you declare?
15 minutes after call due
Uncertainty Phase
When should you commence communication checks for an aircraft failing to report in reply to a call by a ground station, when listening watch is required?
3 minutes after call
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft failing to report in reply to a call by a ground station, when listening watch is required?
Which phase should you declare?
15 minutes after call
Uncertainty Phase
When should you commence communication checks for an aircraft failing to report arrival at a non-controlled aerodrome?
10 minutes after estimate
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft failing to report arrival at a non-controlled aerodrome?
Which phase should you declare?
15 minutes after estimate
Uncertainty Phase
When should you commence communication checks for an aircraft failing to report arrival or departure having nominated SARTIME?
At SARTIME
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft failing to report arrival or departure having nominated SARTIME?
Which phase should you declare?
30 minutes after SARTIME
Uncertainty Phase
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft failing to report after subsequent communication checks and enquiries to other relevant sources fail to reveal news of the aircraft?
Which phase should you declare?
Immediately as the condition is recognised
Alert Phase
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft failing to report after widespread communication checks and unsuccessful enquiries indicate probability that the aircraft is in distress?
Which phase should you declare?
Immediately as the condition is recognised
Distress Phase
When should you commence communication checks for a radio-equipped aircraft failing to land at a controlled aerodrome after having been given approach or landing instructions or information by ATC at its landing place?
At estimated landing time
When should you declare the emergency phase for a radio-equipped aircraft failing to land at a controlled aerodrome after having been given approach or landing instructions or information by ATC at its landing place?
Which phase should you declare?
5 minutes after estimated landing time
Alert Phase
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft with impaired operating efficiency having difficulty in maintaining height, or having difficulty making a normal approach and landing?
Which phase should you declare?
Immediately as the condition is recognised
Alert Phase
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft with major impaired operating efficiency resulting in a forced landing being likely?
Which phase should you declare?
Immediately as the condition is recognised
Distress Phase
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft requiring VMC operating in IMC, or daylight flights operating at night?
Which phase should you declare?
Immediately as the condition is recognised
Alert Phase
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft that is not on the proper track or at the proper level?
Which phase should you declare?
Immediately as the condition is recognised
Uncertainty Phase
or
Alert Phase, if there is reason to believe the conduct of the flight is in jeopardy.
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft that is unable to use appropriate navaids?
Which phase should you declare?
Immediately as the condition is recognised
Uncertainty Phase
or
Alert Phase, if there is reason to believe the conduct of the flight is in jeopardy.
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft that is experiencing navigational difficulties or is lost?
Which phase should you declare?
Immediately as the condition is recognised
Uncertainty Phase
or
Alert Phase, if there is reason to believe the conduct of the flight is in jeopardy.
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft with exhausted fuel supply (unless SARTIME notified)?
Which phase should you declare?
Immediately
Distress Phase
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft relating to a bomb warning?
Which phase should you declare?
Pending evaluation by the operator or pilot except on the ground at an aerodrome where ATS is on duty.
Alert Phase
or
Immediately on notification of ‘genuine’ evaluation except on the ground where ATS is on duty.
Distress Phase
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft that is missing, for which flight notification has not been lodged?
Which phase should you declare?
Immediately
Uncertainty Phase
or
When communications checks lead to apprehension.
Alert Phase
or
When continued absence of news indicates possibility that the aircraft is in distress.
Distress Phase
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft when the pilot provides information that they are about to, or have, force landed, ditched or crashed?
Which phase should you declare?
Immediately
Distress Phase
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft when the pilot provides information that they are about to, or have, made a landing other than a forced landing:
a) where the position is in doubt;
b) on an unprepared surface; or
c) at an aerodrome which is considered by the pilot as being operationally unsuitable
Which phase should you declare?
Immediately as the condition is recognised
Uncertainty Phase
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft when the pilot provides information that a radio survival beacon as been activated for a period greater than 10 seconds?
Which phase should you declare?
Immediately
Distress Phase
When should you declare the emergency phase for an aircraft when the pilot provides information that an aircraft is known or believed to be the subject of an unlawful interference (hijack)?
Which phase should you declare?
Immediately
Distress Phase
