Wing SOP Flashcards
Changes to flight schedule
Must be annotated on master schedule and approved by CO
Changes to flight schedule underway
Approved by ship CO and det OIC
Minimum weather
500/1
If positive radar control and a CCA or PAR is available for recovery, minimum launch is 200/ 1/2
FCF checklist items
shall only be conducted when the crew includes a designated FCP
Minimum crew for tactical training events
HAC/L3, PQM, and aircrewman
Window for warmup flight
Pilot who has not flown in 45 days
Should include autorotations and other FAM type manuevers
Night currency
2 Hours within 45 days
Between 45 and 60 days the CO may authorize day to night transition
After 60, shall fly with night current HAC
LSO designation
Shall be designated in writing by ship’s CO
Unless short evolution (DLQ’s or ISATT)
DLQ currency lapses
Shall conduct OFT or night FDLP within 30 days of requalification
Shall complete no fewer than 3 evolutions
If all pilots lose currency CO shall attempt to use HAC from another unit
If operational situation waiver from WING commander to allow non-current HACs to regain currency
What needs to be rebased following OIC change, ship COC (fleet up exempt), reassignment to a new ship, more than 60 days between embarked
Day and night landing requalifications Emergency flight quarters Crash on deck drill Hot refueling Straightening and traversing evolutions ELVA/smoke light approach Lost Plane Homing
Flight hours prior to embarkation
9 hours within 45 days
Night currency and insturment currency prior to embarkation
2 hours within 45 days night
2 hours insturment within 60 days
Intervals of 45 days or less between embarked ops hours
minimum 6 hours and achieve night and instrument currency
SAR capable currency
2 night automatic approaches utilizing windline rescue pattern to a coupled hover within 60 days
Failure to meet shall not be scheduled to fly night SAR missions
Dip currency
2 Night dip to dip patterns at night to a coupled hover in 60 days
To regain shall fly with a coupler current PIC
Instrument currency, how to rebase
2 hours simulated or actual within 60 hours
Can be in SIM
Must be regained prior to flying any other mission as HAC
Crew rest
Shall not be scheduled to brief a flight event until 10 hours after completion of post flight duties
Shipboard radius of action
150 NM or max reliable nav/comm range whichever is less
One way flights radius of action
150 NM shore to ship, ship to ship
200 NM ship to shore
Prohibited with passengers/orientation flights
Simulated emergencies
practice autorotations
intentional aircraft degradations
ordnance release
Overland minimum altitude
1000 ft AGL populated
500 ft AGL unpopulated
Overwater minimum altitude
50 ft day
150 ft unaided night
100 ft NVD
Coupled hover minimum altitude
70 ft
Following stable hover, may be reduced to 40 ft to conduct live hoisting ops
Terrain flights (Low level) minimum altitude
200 ft AGL on approved routes and ranges
SACT minimum altitude
100 ft AGL Day
500 ft AGL night
Checklist
Challenge reply reply up to rotor engagement
When necessary to avoid interference may be done silently
If STAB AUTO MODE PBS not illuminated when AC power is applied
Stab lockpins shall be visually checked prior to flight
Rescue hoist op check
should be completed on the first flight of the day to ensure SAR capability
Called on the first takeoff of each flight
Safe single engine airspeed and stab programming
Shall be called after reengaging the AUTO mode after a simulated or actual stab failure
Stab programming
What checklist needs to be completed when transitioning from pad to runway or viceversa
Landing checklist
Any time the mission is altered from what is briefed
In-flight mission change checklist
Passengers during hot refuel
Shall not occupy the aircraft
Aircrewmen during hot refuel
Shall assist in monitoring refueling operations
What needs to happen during crew swaps
shall be a PIC to PIC verbal turnover
What checklist to start with after hot seat
Step 9 of the post engagement checks
With rotors turning how far aft can you go?
Shall not proceed aft of countermeasure dispensers, unless arming/de-arming the system
Air taxi
Shall ground taxi to the greatest extent possible whenever possibility of damage from rotor wash exists
Inter-Squadron ops
Require a joint brief between PICs, may be face to face, phonecon, message, email or per SOPs
Use of seat belts
Seat and gunners belts shall be utilized to the max extent possible
All occupants should be in a crash worthy seat with seat and shoulder harness secured during take-off and landing
Flyover manuevers
Non-manuevering wings level passes of one to two aircraft (waiverable to four)
Single pass over a fixed point at a specified time
Flyover altitude and airspeed
No lower than 500 ft AGL
No slower than 60 KIAS
Deviations from Flyover specifications
Requested through type wing TYCOM approval
`Concurrent det aircraft ops
Single spot ship with 2 helicopters utilizing RSD shall not conduct concurrent ops unless an emergency landing site (shore or ship) is available within 50 NM for the duration