Transcript Carrier Qualification

CNATRA
Embarked Carrier Qualification Brief
Admin Items
• ORM
• Medical readiness
• Crew rest (10 hours embarked)
• Flight time limits
• 2 flights/3 man-up’s, 3.5 hours/flight, 5.0 hours total (2 flights)
• Line Up / Qual Numbers
• Times
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Walk
Man-up
GTS start (Clearance from plane captain)
Takeoff
• Weather
• Ship / Enroute / Divert & Bingo Fields
• Waypoint Plan
CQ Brief
Communications
• Radio 2
• Radio 1
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• Lead safe Common
• Atis
• CNATRA Base
Tower
Departure
Warning Area
Approach
Tower
Ground
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Aircraft Man-up
• Sign ADB in maintenance prior to walking
• Cold start/Flight deck
• Location of A/C ( from flight deck control; escort required)
• Beware of intakes, exhausts, and propellers!
• Avoid landing area if flight operations are in progress
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Preflight
• Normal Preflight
• Special attention to:
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Tire Pressure
Launch bar
Holdback assembly
Landing gear (servicing, security)
Tailhook (security, GREASED)
Tailhook snubber pressure (950 psi ± 50)
• Don’t preflight hook if tail over water
• Cockpit
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Instruments secure
No loose gear, minimum pubs
Cat grip
Rear Cockpit soloized
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Deck Procedures
• Alignment procedures
• Call tower: side number, “up and ready”, gross weight
• No hook check if tail over water
• Must have hook checked prior to crossing JBD
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Deck Procedures
• Taxi to JBD
• Route and placement of director
• Notify tower/deck personnel if fuel is at or
below hold down
• Takeoff checklist prior to JBD (full flaps,
3.5o nose up trim, RADALT set to 40’)
• Baro Altimeter should indicate approx. 60’
• Weight board / signals (500# increments)
• STOP IF YOU LOSE SIGHT
• DO NOT lower launch bar prior to rogering
a correct weight board
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Deck Procedures
• Catapult procedures
• Watch the director
• Taxi slowly. Extend launch bar when directed. Use high
gain NWS only when directed (±20 degrees; low gain not
available)
• Taxi slowly into hold back fitting (Update BRC on CDI)
• Tension signal
• Remain at idle
• HEELS ON DECK - OFF BRAKES!!
• Run-up signal
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MRT - Use cat grip
Retract launch bar (when at MIL)
Wipeout controls/Rudder pedals (check gauges/instruments)
Head against seat
Salute the Catapult Officer- HEELS ON DECK
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Deck Procedures
• Catapult procedures (cont.)
• Catapult techniques
• Hold stick lightly - allow it to come back aft during the stroke,
then set 10-12 deg attitude as A/C flies away
• Scan ADI, AOA, Airspeed. Proceed upwind minimum 1.0 NM
before turning downwind if only a/c in pattern
• Suspend
• Prior to salute - Shake head “no”, broadcast “Suspend,
Suspend“)
• After salute - same but be ready to go
• Remain at MRT until Cat Officer moves in front of A/C with
“throttle back” signal
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CV Pattern
• Pilot controlled pattern
• Interval – 7 o’clock
• Fly instruments scan alt, heading
• Tacan Gouge
• Bearing 30o
• Bearing 45o
• ABEAM
DME: 2.0
DME: 1.4-1.5
DME: 0.9-1.1
• Downwind
• Landing Checklist
– Harness
– Check: Anti-skid – Off
– Hook - Up for 2 touch-and-go’s (unless directed otherwise)
• RADALT: set to 450’
• AOA/airspeed/fuel state cross check
• Abeam call “Qual #, Abeam”
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CV Pattern
• Approach Turn
• Abeam position: 0.9 to 1.1 NM
• Turn at LSO platform (Just see the white of the
round down)
• 90 degree position: 450’ AGL
• 45 degree position: 325-375’ AGL
• Don’t look for the ball early
• Ball acquisition - check VSI and adjust (500-600
FPM)
• No lower than 300’ AGL without a ball
• FLY THE NUMBERS – Avoid looking outside the
cockpit early in the approach turn….You will
appear high and too close abeam
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CV Pattern
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CV Pattern
• Glideslope
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Work to a good start
Call the ball: (Side #, “Goshawk ball”, fuel state, qual #)
Meatball, Lineup, Angle of Attack
Fly the ball to touchdown. Landing should be a surprise.
• MRT and S/B in upon touchdown ALL THE WAY TO A STOP
• Lineup corrections all the way down
• Meatball is inaccurate unless you are on centerline
• DO NOT SPOT THE DECK
• Always keep your scan moving
• NEVER ACCEPT A LOW BALL, OR LEAD A LOW
• DO NOT RECENTER A HIGH BALL IN CLOSE
• DO NOT TAKE YOUR OWN WAVEOFF
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Response to LSO
• LSO Calls
• Advisory (ie. “winds 25 knots port”)
• Informative (ie. ”you’re lined up left”, “you’re slow”)
• Imperative (ie. “power”, “right for line-up”)
• Line-up calls in close
• Scan shifts to meatball / AOA
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CV Pattern
• Waveoffs
• Mandatory
• Straight ahead (up the angle) unless otherwise directed
• Do not over-rotate - Hold 17 units AOA landing attitude
• T&G or Bolter
• MRT, S/B in, rotate and climb to 600’
• Turn to PARALLEL BRC AT THE BOW
• First aircraft to bow has priority in the pattern
• Downwind
• Turn with interval at 7 o’clock or when directed by tower
• Ask for interval if necessary (no one on the ball)
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CV Pattern
• Delta Pattern
• “EASY” – Gear & Flaps down, S/B in, 150kts
• “CLEAN” – Max Endurance (Maintain Interval)
• First A/C abeam after “CHARLIE” call commences the approach
turn
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Deck Procedures
• Arrestment
• Fly the ball all the way to touchdown
• MRT, S/Bs in all the way to full stop!!! (no cut passes)
• Yellow shirt director at 1-2 o’clock - watch signals (off brakes, pull
back, raise hook)
• Leaving landing area
• Use high-gain NWS
• Taxi director signals – above and below waist
• Follow taxi director
• If unsure, STOP and ask Tower
• Clear the foul line expeditiously but controlled
• Keep your head out of the cockpit
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Refueling
• Refueling Procedures
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Locations
Review push-back procedures
Signals for chocks and chains
Canopy closed
Purple shirt refueling signals
Cut signal at 2800#
Call tower: side number, “up and ready”, gross weight (as
necessary)
• Mask: On, Takeoff Checks: Complete, prior to pulling
chocks/chains
CQ Brief
Aircraft Hot Switch
• Hot Switches
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Aircraft chocked and chained
Seat safed and parking brake set
Throttle friction: On
Leave electrical equipment on
Unstrap, loosen lap straps, seat up and rudder pedals
extended
• Upon signal from PC and intake screen in place, Canopy:
Open.
• Debrief oncoming pilot after switching
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Normal Departures
• Case I
• Perform clearing turn
• Maintain 500’ MSL @ 300kts until 7nm then climb on
course (shortest direction)
• Contact departure for RTB instructions
• Stay outside 10 DME
• If directed to join on a lead safe tower will pass
appropriate information
• 250kt rendezvous, join to the outside of the turn in echelon
• Switch up back radio
• Do not leave warning area until 2-way comm establised
with Sealord
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Normal Departures
• Case II
• Perform clearing turn
• Climb to 500’ straight ahead at 300kts
• 7nm turn to intercept the 10DME arc
• Turn appropriate direction for the departure radial
• Remain VMC established outbound
• Rendezvous
• VFR on top
• Tacan Rdvs
• Mandatory reports
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“Airborne”
“Arcing”
“Outbound”
VMC when on departure radial
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RTB
• Enroute from ship
• Feet dry checklist
• Anti-skid switch: On (light will come on when gear down)
• Lights: On (taxi, anti-collision, strobe, position, form, pinky switch)
• Course Rules
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Fuel Management
• Individual pilot responsibility
• Note bingo distance, bearing, range, fuel required
• Hold down fuel= Gear Down / Flaps Up Bingo #’s
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Bingo Procedures
• Be prepared to Bingo at all times
• Update Bingo profile as provided by Tower
• Notify Tower when at bingo fuel THIS IS AN EMERGENCY
PROCEDURE
• Turn to Bingo heading and clean up (including hook)
• Accelerate to 300 KTS - level (clear traffic/overhead pattern)
• Commence MRT climb to pre-determined altitude (PCL chart)
• Don’t wait for safety pilot to join: Leadsafe will run you down
• Switch departure and dial up Bingo field TACAN - Squawk 7700
• IMC as necessary to preserve Bingo profile
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Bingo Procedures
• Contact approach control for coordination: state emergency
fuel situation
• Determine best pattern entry - downwind, base leg, VFR
straight in, or emergency fuel GCA
• Heads up for other aircraft
• Feet dry checklist- Hook: Up, Anti-collision/strobe light: On,
Anti-skid: On
• Land on speed
• Remember carrier pressurized tires…plan full runway rollout,
wet runway
• Safety pilot techniques – Lead vs. Wingman, etc…
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Emergencies
• Suspend
• NORDO - Fly aircraft first, then check switches and
fittings
• Fly normal pattern, watch for cut lights; waveoff as
directed. Subsequent cut lights: “Power”
• Remain in the pattern until you trap or you are joined on by
a lead safe
• If bingo fuel - BINGO / Squawk 7700
• If you require immediate landing, Landing light: On. LSO
will use cut lights to “Roger ball”
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Emergencies
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Loss of NAVAIDS
Lost Plane
Lost sight / Inadvertent IMC
Down Plane / SAR
Bird strike
Midair
Landing gear malfunctions (probable steer / dirty bingo)
Brake failure
• Airborne - probable steer and short field arrest
• On deck - drop hook and transmit to Tower
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Emergencies
• Catapult emergencies (cold, soft, holdback failure, hangfire,
suspend)
• Flameout (airborne/during catapult)
• Blown tire / Smoked tire
• Expect field arrestment with LSO talk down
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Hydraulic failure - dirty bingo
Launch bar warning light/launch bar down airborne
Accel light
Brake Pressure caution light
System failure
Low altitude ejection (clean and dirty)
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Miscellaneous
• NATOPS and other QOD
• Yellow sheets -“A” for CV ops; log traps, cat shots, T&G’s,
bolters and field landing
• Flight isn't over until you are out of the aircraft and the
paperwork is done and you have reported to the SDO
CQ Brief
• You earn your reputation at the ship
• Be professional and alert
• Be the ball.
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QUESTIONS
CQ Brief