Vol. 4, Unit 3: Scheduling & Flying Hour Management Flashcards
What must maintenance personnel do in order to provide mission capable aircraft to meet the units mission requirements?
Keep up with routine and scheduled maintenance
Which type of mission provides air interdiction (A1) and close air support (CAS)?
Counter land
Crew rest includes at least how many hours of uninterrupted sleep?
8
When does the flight duty period end ?
When aircraft engines are stopped at the end of a mission.
When forecasting air refueling requirements, each scheduling office must forecast requirements for the next fiscal year plus…
5 years
Tanker support is not final until…
It is published in the quarterly air refueling schedule.
Which publication would you use to find information on special-use airspace and it’s controlling agency?
Appendix A of DOD Flight Information Publication
What must you do as a ground scheduler?
Determine which task takes priority and resolve scheduling issues as they arise.
Within how many working days upon receipt of the flying hour allocations does the annual planning cycle start?
10
When building a quarterly plan, operational requirements are provided to maintenance…
No later than 25 days before the affected quarter.
Which scheduling plan includes aircrew names and aircraft tail numbers?
Weekly
Which base agency would you contact to safeguard the aircraft?
Security Forces
What are the four basic scheduling factors?
Mission requirements, equipment or aircraft availability, aircrew availability, and allocated flying hours.
What mission requirements are determined by maintenance?
Aircraft or equipment availability
Which AFI would you refer to for information on the procedures and requirements for obtaining AR support?
11-221, Air Refueling Management
What does the status prefix symbol indicate?
The aircraft is nonstandard, experimental, or a prototype.
Which flight condition can only be logged by pilots?
Instrument time
Who is responsible for completing the mission design series, the serial number, unit charged for flying hours, and HARM location blocks (2-5) of the 781?
Maintenance crew chief
All original 781s must be provided to the HARM office by…
5th day of each month
In order to make changes to an 781 that has already been turned into the HARM office, what needs to happen?
Pilot In command must contact the HARM office
What is the purpose of the 3520?
Serve as an alternate method to record individual flying hours
After entering flight data in ARMS what report must be requested to audit your work?
Flying Time Update Summary
To have an accurate database, how soon after entering flying hours into the system must you perform an audit and make corrections?
The same day
On the flying history report which flight time is not included in a members total time?
Student
On the flying history report which flight time is not included in a members grand total time?
Combat time
What must an aircrew member do when she finds an error on his or her flying hour totals, but is unable to produce a source document?
Submit a DD form 149, application for Correction of Military Record
Your unit submits it’s yearly flying hour requirements to…
Current operations
To ensure accurate flying data is reported monthly, how often must you audit the aircraft utilization report (AUR)?
Daily and monthly
When auditing the aircraft utilization report (AUR), you must…
Perform a line by line comparison of each entry against the 781
