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28 Cards in this Set
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Airfield familiarization is
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Essential to personnel learning how to perform their duties for their personal safety and the safety of the aircrew
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Safety guidelines
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Jet blast, rotor arcs, propellers and jet intakes are potentially life threatening
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Flight line protective equipment include
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Flight deck steel toed safety shoes Cranial impact Helment Protective eye goggles Leather gloves |
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Runways
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Paved areas that are used for a/c takeoff and landing.
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Threshold Markings
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Parallel stripes on the ends of the runways. The stripes are 12 feet wide by 150 feet long and designate the landing area
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Overrun Area
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Paved or un-paved section on the ends of the runways that provide a reasonably effective deceleration area for aborting or overshooting a/c
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MA-1 Series Overrun Barrier
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Designed to stop tricycle landing gear equipped a/c not equipped with tail hooks. The MA-1A is always in a standby status, in case there is an aborted takeoff or an emergency overrun landing.
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Emergency Shored based recovery equipment
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Used during in-flight emergencies that require stopping the a/c during landing in the shortest distance possible to minimize the chance of injury to pilot or aircrew and damage to the a/c
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Taxiways
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Paved areas for a/c to move between parking aprons, runways, and airfield services
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Parking Aprons
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Open paved areas adjacent to hangars, fuel, services ofton called the flight line. Used for parking, servicing, and loading a/c; they are connected to the runways by taxiways
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Compass calibration pad (Compass Rose)
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paved area in a magnetically quiet area where the a/c compass is calibrated
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Runway numbering system
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runways are normally numbered in relation to their magnetic heading rounded off to the nearest 10 degrees
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Airfield rotating beacon
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used to identify the airport's location. rotates clockwise at a constant speed and military airfields use 2 white lights and 1 green flashing 12-15 times per minute
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SE acronym
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Safety Equipment
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The required flight deck protective equipment are?
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Flight deck steel toed safety shoes protective jersey cranial impact helment protective eye goggles leather gloves |
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Who wears Yellow Jerseys? |
Aircraft Handling Officer Flight Deck Officer Catapult Officer Arresting Gear Officer Plane Directors |
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Who wears White jerseys?
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Safety dept Air Transport officer QA Medical |
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Who wears brown jerseys?
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Plane captians
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Who wears Blue jerseys?
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Aircraft Handling and Chock Crewman Elevator Operators |
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Who wear green jerseys?
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Catapult and Arresting Gear Personnel Squadron Aircraft Maintenance personnel Photographers Maintainers |
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Who wears red jerseys? |
Crash and Salvage EOD Ordnance Handling personnel (AO's) |
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Who wears purple jerseys?
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Aviation Fuel crew
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Purple K Powder identified by |
12 inch wide red stripe with a white 3 inch high "PKP" stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming. White 18 inch diameter circle with red 5 inch high PKP letters painted on the flight deck |
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Saltwater stations identified by
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18 inch wide red stripe with a 3 inch high "W" stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming. Red triangle 18 inches per side with a yellow "W" painted on the flight deck |
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CO2 Bottle Stowage identified by
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12 inch wide red stripe with a 3 in high "CO2" stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming. a white 18 inch diameter circle with a red 5 inch high "CO2" painted on the flight deck |
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AFFF Station identified by |
18 inch wide green stripe with white 3 inch high "AFFF" stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming. a green 18 inch square with white 3 inch high "AFFF" letters painted on the flight deck |
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Bomb jettison ramp
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designated to eliminate loose ordinance have a yellow stripe painted up & over the deck edge at both ends of the ramp opening. the flight deck in front of the ramp opening is marked with alternating 4 inch wide red and yellow stripes with a 12 inch black facsimile of a bomb centered |
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Steam smothering identified by
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an 18 inch black stripe with a 3 inch white "STEAM" stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming |
