Volume Three Flashcards
(401) The equipment inventory reporting system justifies and defends the program, budget, and…
…USAF plan.
(401) Under the inventory reporting concept, all aerospace vehicles in the Air Force must be accounted for as long as they are assigned and possessed by the …
Air Force, Air National Guard (ANG) or AF Reserve unit.
(401) Inventory reporting is divided into what two distinct types?
Assignment and possession.
(401) Who assigns and distributes aerospace vehicles throughout the Air Force?
Headquarters (HQ) USAF.
(401) Who handles the distribution of aerospace vehicles within a command?
Lead command AVDO.
(401) What concept of Air Force Instruction (AFI) 21–103, Equipment Inventory, Status and Utilization Reporting, is based on exception reporting?
Status
(402) Unless otherwise reported, the status of all aircraft is considered to be…
Full Mission Capable (FMC).
(402) What maintenance status code indicates an aircraft is capable of flying at least one but not all of its assigned missions?
Partial mission capable (PMC).
(403) Who is responsible for the aerospace vehicle utilization monitor (AVUM) function?
Aviation resource manager.
(404) Whenever an aircraft is transferred from one unit to another, who is responsible for the aerospace vehicle distribution officer (AVDO) function or inventory?
Plans, Scheduling, and Documentation (PS&D).
(404) What are the three major possession reporting transactions?
Termination, loss, and gain
(404) Which lead command becomes the initial possessing activity for new production aircraft?
HQ Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC).
(404) When field teams are performing depot-level maintenance or modifications, who gains possession?
Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC).
(405) The lead command aerospace vehicle distribution officer (AVDO), prior to any aircraft transfer or loan, will send out what type of notice?
Assignment Directive Notice.
(405) What function is responsible for the coordination of Air Force Technical Order (AFTO) Form 103, Aircraft/Missile Condition Data, with the maintenance operations flight (MOF) Plans, Scheduling, and Documentation (PS&D) and quality assurance (QA) before the form is submitted to the major command (MAJCOM)?
Unit aerospace vehicle distribution officer (AVDO).
(405) The Air Force Technical Order (AFTO) Form 103, Aircraft/Missile Condition Data, is initiated how many days in advance of the scheduled depot date to allow for command review and certification?
55
(407) What is a maintenance scheduler’s main concern when dealing with the annual operational contract?
The capability of maintenance to support the contract.
(407) Who initially sends the annual allocation of flying hours and provides a recommended annual utilization (UTE) rate for a Combat Air Force (CAF) unit?
Lead Command
(407) During the development of the annual operational contract, who provides the unit with historical data from the previous flying months?
Maintenance Data Systems Analysis (MDSA).
(408) During the operational and maintenance planning cycle, quarterly planning begins with the…
quarterly allocation of flying hours.
(408) Who devises procedures to ensure the objectives of the quarterly scheduling cycle are met?
Lead command.
(408) As a minimum, the long-range plan shows the known maintenance requirements for the…
current month and the next two months.
(408) Scheduling forecasts and monitors the quarterly plan on an Air Force Form…
2401.
(408) When should additional requirements such as time compliance technical order (TCTO) programs, programmed depot maintenance (PDM) schedules, and scheduled inspections be added to the quarterly plan?
As requirements are received
(409) The monthly maintenance planning schedule will include all known “operational” events, such as…
exercises, deployments, and surges.
(409) When will the operations officer provide aircraft maintenance unit (AMU) supervision and Plans, Scheduling, and Documentation (PS&D) with the estimated operational needs for the following month?
No later than (NLT) the first weekly scheduling meeting.
(409) No later than (NLT) the third weekly scheduling meeting with the operations group (OG) and maintenance group (MXG) commanders, next month’s plan must be finished prior to presenting it to the…
Wing Commander
(409) A maintenance scheduler must be aware of the basic requirements necessary to support the flying schedule in order to…
properly predict scheduled and unscheduled maintenance.
(409) Attrition, as it relates to scheduling, can be defined as…
the reduction or loss of sorties due to weather, operation cancellations, or failure of maintenance to provide aircraft for scheduled sorties.
(409) The maintenance group commander (MXG/CC) will approve the use of attrition factors different than the statistical attrition rates calculated by…
Maintenance Data Systems Analysis (MDSA).
(409) How many days prior to the beginning of the effective month must the monthly maintenance plan be distributed if published?
5
(410) The purpose of the weekly utilization and maintenance plan is to…
refine the monthly maintenance plan and provide additional details to it.
(410) Once published, the weekly schedule…
provides the final planning guide for maintenance and operations.
(410) All weekly schedules should be developed to conform as closely as possible to the current…
monthly maintenance plan.
(410) As early in the week as possible, but no later than (NLT) two workdays before the weekly meeting, the operations squadron (OS) operations officer gives the proposed schedule for the coming week to the…
aircraft maintenance unit (AMU) supervision.
(410) The process by which a particular aerospace vehicle is selected to fulfill a given sortie or mission is…
serial number assignment
(410) The operations squadron (OS) operations officer and aircraft maintenance unit (AMU) supervision reviews and coordinates the proposed weekly flying and maintenance schedule with OS, aircraft maintenance squadron (AMXS), and maintenance squadron (MXS) prior to presenting it to the…
operations and maintenance group commanders.
(410) Once the weekly schedule is reviewed and signed by the operations group (OG), maintenance group (MXG), and wing (WG) commander, it becomes the final planning guide for both…
operations and maintenance.
(410) The weekly plan (excluding Air Education and Training Command (AETC)) should be developed and distributed to all maintenance workcenters prior to the effective week, but no later than (NLT)
1200 Friday of the previous week.
(411) Who chooses the debriefing option your unit will use?
Lead Command
(411) The purpose of daily planning is to verify the daily portion of the weekly maintenance plan with…
Operations
(411) Past schedules are beneficial for…
identifying trends
(411) An airborne aircraft that cannot complete its primary or alternate mission…
is an air abort.
(411) Who determines specific procedures to record and coordinate changes to the printed weekly schedule?
Lead Command
(411) Who initiates the AF Form 2407, Weekly/Daily Flying Schedule Coordination?
The requesting agency.
(411) Which means of communication is the most convenient and fastest for coordinating maintenance requirements?
Telephone
(412) What does a unit type code (UTC) package normally represent?
Both personnel and equipment
(412) Who is primarily responsible for joint operation planning?
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
(412) What is the last digit of a standard that is a Headquarters USAF approved and distributed unit type code (UTC)?
Zero.
(415) What events and factors are used to compute maintenance scheduling effectiveness (MSE)?
Scheduled maintenance and weighted points.
(415) The two items used to determine whether or not the maintenance actions were completed on time for maintenance scheduling effectiveness (MSE) are…
IMDS database and published schedule.
(415) Additional areas to be included in local tracking of maintenance scheduling effectiveness (MSE) such as aerospace ground equipment (AGE) and alternate mission equipment may be authorized by the…
MXG CC
(415) Who develops written procedures for reviewing and recording scheduled maintenance actions daily?
Maintenance operations flight (MOF) Plans Scheduling and Documentation (PS&D).
(415) The five Maintenance Scheduling Deviation Categories are supply,
higher headquarters (HHQ), maintenance, weather, and other.
(416) A malfunction or deficiency on an aircraft or a piece of equipment that can’t be corrected within a reasonable time after discovery due to non-availability of parts, manpower, facilities, or equipment is what type of discrepancy?
Documented.
(416) What are the two separate and distinct documented discrepancy files?
Awaiting maintenance/awaiting parts.
(416) The file that contains records of delays caused by lack of manpower is the…
awaiting maintenance file.
(417) The person who provides the Propulsion Product Group Manager (PPGM) with command directives on the Comprehensive Engine Management System (CEMS) reporting is the…
command engine manager.
(417) Who has the responsibility to make sure each reporting activity at each base within the command has an assigned stock record account number (SRAN) engine manager and assistant at all times?
Command engine manager.
(417) The stock record account number (SRAN) engine manager is appointed by the
MXG CC
(417) If there are any changes to the stock record account number (SRAN) directory, who will inform Oklahoma City–Air Logistics Center?
Command Engine Manager
(417) Who is the focal point for reporting all engine related matters on base?
Stock record account number (SRAN) engine manager.
(418) The maximum operating time (MOT) maintenance concept dictates that…
engines are treated the same as a time change item.
(418) What maintenance concept requires an engine to be overhauled regardless of condition?
Maximum operating time (MOT).
(418) What uses a system of inspection and testing techniques to determine the condition of an engine?
Reliability-centered maintenance.
(418) What inspection technique uses fiber optics to allow maintenance personnel to search for small cracks and signs of heat stress inside the engine?
Borescope
(418) What inspection technique requires maintenance personnel to take samples of oil from an engine and have it analyzed for metal particles, which indicates wear and tear in the engine?
Oil Analysis
(418) Tracking methods for engines are identified by a…
two-digit index code.
(420) What keeps track of engine data in the Integrated Maintenance Data System (IMDS), and tells where and how many parts are required?
Required item installation table.
(421) Which term is not a method of collecting accumulated hour and event data?
Radio telecommunications.
(421) What inquiry is used to request general engine data and event history recorder information on engines which are tracked either locally or by the Comprehensive Engine Management System (CEMS) Central Data Base (CDB)?
On-line engine inquiry (OEI).
(422) The Central Data Base (CDB) quarterly inventory report is prepared and distributed on what day of the month for that quarter?
20th
(423) What engine listing is prepared daily and includes the prior 30 days transactions?
Engine Managers Data Listing (EMDL).
(423) Any error(s) listed in part one of the Engine Managers Data List (EMDL) will appear on the first processing day recognized and not reappear for how many days to give engine managers proper response time?
5
(424) The annotated copy of the time compliance technical order (TCTO) reconciliation report must be mailed to the Central Data Base (CDB) within how many days from the date of the report?
30
(425) What are three types of condition codes used when reporting engine status?
Serviceable, reparable, and installed.
