Block Vii - Airfield And Flight Deck

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Airfield Familiarization

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Airfield familiarization is essential to personnel
learning how to perform their duties for their personal safety and the safety of the aircrew. The interaction between, people, vehicles, support equipment and aircraft in the airfield environment requires all personnel to have a good
working knowledge of the airfield and its unique features.

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Safety Guidelines.

Back 2

extensive flight line training is given for the airfield
environment however the safety concerns are the same as the flight deck. Jet
blast, rotor arcs, propellers and jet intakes are potentially life threatening
while being FOD free, wearing your PPE, being qualified, and keeping your head 0
a swivel are essential to safely working on the flight line.

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Safety Equipment

Back 3

Anytime personnel are working on the flight line they will
be issued the proper safety equipment. The required flight line protective
equipment will include the following items:
Flight deck (steel-toed) safety shoes
Cranial impact helmet
Protective eye goggles
Leather gloves.

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Runways.

Back 4

Paved areas that are used for aircraft takeoff and landing. Runway
vary in length at each airfield as determined by the aircraft sizes and weights
that will be utilizing them.

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Threshold Markings

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These are parallel stripes on the ends of the runways.
The stripes are 12 feet wide by ISO feet long and designate the landing area.

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Overrun Area.

Back 6

Paved or un-paved section on the ends of the runways that
provide a reasonably effective deceleration area for aborting or overshooting
aircraft.

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MA-l Series Overrun Barrier.

Back 7

Designed to stop tricycle landing gear equipped
aircraft not equipped with tail hooks. The MA-IA is always in a standby status,
in case there is an aborted takeoff or an emergency overrun landing.

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Emergency shore based recovery equipment.

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Used during in-flight emergencies
that require stopping the aircraft during landing in the shortest distance
possible to minimize the chance of injury to pilot or aircrew and damage to the
aircraft ..

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Taxiways.

Back 9

Paved areas for aircraft to move between parking aprons, runways, and airfield services.

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Parking Apron.

Back 10

Open paved areas adjacent to hangers, fuel, services often
called the flight line. Used for parking, servicing, and loading aircraft; they
are connected to the runways by taxiways.

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Compass calibration pad (Compass Rose).

Back 11

A paved area in a magnetically quiet
area where the aircraft compass is calibrated.

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Runway numbering system.

Back 12

Runways are normally numbered in relation to their
magnetic heading rounded off to the nearest 10 degrees, i.e., a runway heading of
250 degree is runway 25. If there are 2 runways whose centerline is parallel,
the runway will be identified as L (left) and R (right) or 25L or 25R, if there
are 3 parallel runways C (center) is added.

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Airfield rotating beacon.

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When the airport is below VFR weather conditions,
day or night, the airport rotating beacon is used to identify the airport's
location. It rotates clockwise at a constant speed and military airfields use 2
white lights and one green flashing 12 to 15 times per minute.

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Flight Deck Familiarization (Ref a, b , c)

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The carrier flight deck is one of the most hazardous portions of real estate on
the planet therefore proper training, qualification, and awareness of your
surroundings in essential when working in this highly dangerous environment.

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Safety.

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While exhaustive training in flight deck safety is beyond the scope of
this text; a few of the hazards and safety concerns are oil, grease, and fuel
which create slip hazards on the deck and ladderwells. Also jet lntakes and
exhaust, rotor and propellers arcs are the life threatening hazards present
during flight operations. The vast myriad of hazards to personnel and equipment
underline the importance PPE and situational awareness have on flight deck
safety.

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Safety Equipment. Anytime personnel are required to work on the flight deck
they will be issued the proper safety equipment. The required flight deck
protective equipment will include the following items:

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Flight deck (steel-toed) safety shoes
Protectlve Jersey
Cranial impact helmet
Protective eye goggles
Leather gloves

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Color Coded Classification System.

Back 17

Those crewmembers who do have specific,
clearly defined functions will be readily recognizable at a glance by the colored
coded jerseys and helmets that denote their role. The color classification
system is as follows:

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Yellow Jerseys.

Back 18

Aircraft Handling Officer, Flight Deck Officer, Catapult
Officer, Air Bos'n, Arresting Gear Officer and Plane directors.

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White Jerseys.

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Safety department, Air Transport Officer, Landing Signal
Officer, Squadron Plane Inspectors (troubleshooters) and medical.

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Brown Jerseys.

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Plane captains.

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Blue Jerseys.

Back 21

Aircraft Handling and Chock Crewman (Chocks, Chains and
Tractors) and Elevator Operators.

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Green Jerseys.

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Catapult and Arresting Gear personnel, Squadron Aircraft
Maintenance personnel, Helicopter Landing Signal Enlisted-man and
Photographers.

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Red Jerseys

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Crash and Salvage, Explosive Ordnance Disposal, and Ordnance handling personnel.

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Purple Jerseys.

Back 24

Aviation fuel crew.

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Deck Edge Fire Fighting Symbols.

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In addition to knowing the required flight deck safety equipment it's also important to your fire fighting agents. You may be the first one on the scene of a fire on the flight deck and knowing the
identification, function, and location of the various fire fighting agents could
make the difference between extensive material damage/death of minimal injury. The fire fighting agents include:

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Purple K Powder (PKP).

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Identified by a 12-inch wide red stripe with a white
3-inch high "PKP" stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming. At locations where coamings are not installed, a white 18-inch diameter circle with red 5-inch high "PKP" letters is painted on the flight deck

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Saltwater Stations

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Identified by an 18-inch wide red stripe with a yellow
3-inch high "W" stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming. At locations where coamings are not installed, a red triangle 18inches per side with a yellow "W" is painted on the flight deck.

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CO2 Bottle Stowage.

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Identified by a 12-inch wide red stripe with a white 3inch
high "C02" stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming. At locations where coamings are not installed, a white 18-inch diameter circle with a red 5-inch high "CO/' is painted on the flight deck.

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AFFF Station

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Identified by an 18-inch wide green stripe with white 3-inch
high "AFFF" stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming.
At locations where coamings are not installed, a green 18-inch square with
white 3-inch high "AFFF" letters is painted on the flight deck.

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Bomb Jettison Ramp.

Back 30

Ramps designated to eliminate loose ordinance will have
a yellow stripe painted up and 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.

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Identified by an 18" black stripe with a 3" white "STEAM"
stenciled in the center of the stripe on the wheel stop coaming.