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Title: Mission Aircrew Course Chapter 12: Mission Pilot (Feb 2005)


1
Mission Aircrew CourseChapter 12 Mission Pilot
(Feb 2005)
2
Aircrew Tasks
  • O-2106 PLAN AND COMMAND A CAP FLIGHT (P)
  • P-2001 DISCUSS MISSION PILOT DUTIES AND
    RESPONSIBILITIES (P)
  • P-2005 DISCUSS MISSION PILOT RESPONSIBILITIES
    DURING A MISSION (P)

3
Objectives
  • State MP duties responsibilities. P 12.1
  • Discuss safety matters related to CAP activities.
    12.2
  • Identify where to find the rules on
    transportation flights. P 12.3.1
  • Discuss special precautions needed for flying CAP
    missions at night. P 12.3.2
  • Discuss special precautions needed for flying CAP
    missions in IMC. P 12.3.3

4
Objectives
  • Discuss the special considerations for video
    imaging missions, and discuss the typical video
    imaging flight profile. P 12.3.4
  • Discuss proficiency. P 12.3.5
  • Discuss security and airspace restrictions. P
    12.4.1 12.4.2
  • Describe the three phases of an aircraft
    interception, your actions when intercepted, and
    discuss visual intercepting/intercepted signals.
    P 12.4.3
  • Describe the types of items that should be kept
    in the aircraft glove box. P 12.5

5
Objectives
  • Discuss aircraft paperwork, documents and minimum
    equipment, loading, WB fuel assumptions and
    reserve, and pre-start. P 12.5.1
  • Discuss startup checks, leaning the engine, and
    taxi. P 12.5.2
  • State crosswind limitations and discuss takeoff,
    climb and departure. P 12.5.3
  • Discuss transit to the search area, in the search
    area, and departing the search area. 12.5.4
  • Discuss approach, descent and landing. P
    12.5.5

6
Objectives
  • State MP duties responsibilities.
  • Discuss safety matters related to CAP activities.
  • Concerning transportation flights
  • State where to find out if someone is authorized
    to fly in CAP aircraft
  • State the pilot requirements needed to transport
    the typical non-CAP person in CAP aircraft
  • Discuss special precautions needed for flying CAP
    missions at night.
  • Discuss special precautions needed for flying CAP
    missions in IMC.

7
Objectives
  • Discuss the special considerations for video
    imaging missions, and discuss the typical video
    imaging flight profile.
  • Discuss proficiency.
  • Discuss security and airspace restrictions.
  • Describe the three phases of an aircraft
    interception, your actions when intercepted, and
    discuss visual intercepting/intercepted signals.
  • Describe the types of items that should be kept
    in the aircraft glove box.

8
Objectives
  • Discuss the importance of the Aircraft Flight Log
    and the Discrepancy Log. List the entries you
    should be able to locate in the aircraft log.
  • Discuss startup checks, leaning the engine, and
    taxi.
  • Discuss climb and departure, state crosswind
    limitations and describe how to determine
    crosswind.
  • Discuss approach, descent and landing, and your
    after-landing actions.

9
Objectives
  • Discuss those items you can control to affect
    POD.
  • State the normal, assumed number of aircrew
    needed for a mission.
  • Discuss how you must alter normal search patterns
    if you only have one scanner onboard.
  • Discuss special considerations while flying CAP
    searches.
  • Discuss "go/no go" decision-making.

10
Objectives
  • Discuss after-landing, shutdown and post-flight.
    P 12.5. 6
  • Discuss those items you can control to affect
    POD. P 12.6
  • State the normal, assumed number of aircrew
    needed for a mission. P 12.7
  • Discuss how you must alter normal search patterns
    if you only have one scanner onboard. P 12.7.1
  • Discuss special considerations while flying CAP
    searches. P 12.7.2
  • Discuss "go/no go" decision-making. 12.7.3

11
MP Duties Responsibilities
  • Primary Responsibility Be the Pilot-in-Command.
    That means fly the aircraft in a safe and
    proficient manner, following all FAA and CAP
    rules and regulations.
  • Remember that you are a pilot, not a scanner.
  • In addition to these duties, the pilot is
    responsible for the non-scanning duties if no
    qualified observer is on board (navigation, radio
    communication).
  • Thoroughly brief the aircrew before flight,
    including a briefing on their responsibilities
    during all phases of the upcoming flight

12
MP Duties Responsibilities
  • Responsible for obtaining complete briefings and
    for planning sorties
  • Obtain a proper flight release
  • Utilize CRM techniques and procedures
  • Fly search patterns as completely and precisely
    as possible report any deviations from the
    prescribed patterns during debriefing
  • Monitor the observer and scanner ensure all
    events, sightings and reports are recorded and
    reported
  • Fill out all forms accurately, completely and
    legibly

13
MP Duties Responsibilities
  • Sterile cockpit rules all unnecessary talk is
    suspended and collision avoidance becomes the
    priority of each crewmember. Sterile cockpit
    rules focus each crewmember on the duties at
    hand, namely concentrating on looking outside the
    aircraft for obstacles and other aircraft. The
    rules will always be used during the taxi,
    takeoff, departure, approach, and landing phases
    of flight but the pilot or observer may declare
    these rules in effect whenever they are needed to
    minimize distractions.

14
Mission Pilot Requirements
  • Trainee
  • Qualified General Emergency Services (GES)
  • Qualified as Mission Scanner
  • Current and qualified CAP pilot IAW CAPR 60-1,
    with at least 175 hours PIC including 50 hours
    cross-country.
  • At least 18 years of age (minimum should be
    mature)
  • 101T-MP familiarization and preparatory training
  • Commanders authorization
  • Qualification
  • 101T-MP requirements and CAPF 91
  • Complete Basic Communications User Training and
    Task L-001
  • Current and qualified CAP pilot IAW CAPR 60-1,
    with at least 200 hours PIC including 50 hours
    cross-country.
  • Exercise participation (two separate missions)
  • Unit certification and recommendation

15
SAFETY
16
Flying into and taxiing on unfamiliar airports
  • Small, non-towered, unlighted airports
  • Runways
  • Taxiways
  • Obstacles
  • Services
  • Local NOTAMS


17
Flying into and taxiing on unfamiliar airports
  • Larger, busy airports
  • Airspace and obstacles
  • Taxiways
  • Local NOTAMS
  • A/FD or Flight Guide (Airguide Publications,
    Inc.)
  • Download airport diagrams (AOPA web site)
  • Taxiing around a large number of aircraft at
    mission base
  • Taxi plan
  • Marshallers
  • If it looks too close or dangerous STOP!


18
AIRPORT RUNWAY SAFETY
19
AIRPORT SIGNS
20
AIRPORT MARKINGS
21
SQUAWKS
  • Use the Discrepancy Log, especially in unfamiliar
    aircraft
  • Dont let minor squawks linger
  • Lights and bulbs
  • Radios and navaids
  • Keep aircraft windscreen and windows clean


22
Fuel Management
  • Maintain a sufficient fuel supply to ensure
    landing with one hour of fuel remaining (computed
    at normal POH/AFM cruise fuel consumption).
  • If it becomes evident the aircraft will not have
    that amount of fuel at its intended destination,
    the PIC will divert the aircraft to an airport
    that will ensure this reserve is met.
  • Have a plan
  • Accurate Weight Balance, accurate fuel levels


23
Fuel Management (con't)
  • Note your assumptions and brief crew
  • Power setting
  • Wind direction and speed
  • Leg and total flight distance
  • Compare assumptions against actual conditions
  • Modify plan and refuel, if necessary
  • Check fuel status at least hourly
  • When in doubt land and refuel!


24
Unfamiliar aircraft equipment
  • Audio Panel, FM Radio, DF, GPS if you dont
    know it, dont fly it!
  • Even simple differences can matter
  • If youve never flown an HSI, now isnt the time
    to learn it!
  • Sit in the aircraft and get up to speed
  • Get another pilot to tutor you
  • What does the equipment and gear in the baggage
    compartment weight? WB.
  • Dont try to bluff


25
Unfamiliar terrain and weather
  • Plan for terrain and weather
  • Enroute
  • Area youll be operating in
  • Clothing, equipment and survival gear


26
Trainees Inexperienced Crew
  • Trainees
  • Extra time on briefing, duties responsibilities
  • When not to interrupt (sterile cockpit)
  • Inexperienced crew (or not proficient)
  • Extra time on briefing
  • May have to assume some duties
  • Check 101T cards
  • Flight line marshallers may be cadets or seniors
    on their first mission
  • Be alert and have your crew stay alert


27
Low and Slow
  • Often less than 1000 feet AGL
  • May be less than 90 knots (no less than Vx)
  • Include in your proficiency flying
  • Strictly enforce sterile cockpit rules
  • May lose radar and communications coverage
  • Climb to report ops normal
  • Maintain situational awareness
  • If the engine quits now, where do I land


28
Low and Slow (Cont)
  • Maintain a minimum of 500 feet above the ground,
    water, or any obstruction within a 1000' radius
    during daylight hours, and a minimum of 2000' AGL
    at night (except for takeoff and landing or under
    ATC control).
  • For SAR/DR/CD/HLS reconnaissance, the PIC will
    maintain at least 800 AGL.
  • Pilots may descend below the designated search
    altitude to attempt to positively identify the
    target (but never below 500 AGL) once the target
    has been identified the pilot will return to 800'
    AGL or higher.
  • Maintain airspeed above Vx


29
TYPES OF FLIGHTS
30
TRANSPORTATION FLIGHTS
  • Always consult CAPR 60-1, Chapter 2 (Authorized
    Passengers) when you need to know who is
    authorized to fly as passengers in CAP aircraft
    and the conditions under which they are
    authorized to fly
  • As a general rule, anyone other than CAP or US
    government employees need special permission to
    fly in CAP aircraft
  • All non-CAP members eligible to fly aboard CAP
    aircraft must execute a CAPF 9, Release (for
    non-CAP Members), prior to the flight.

31
FAR Exemptions(60-1 Attachment 2)
  • CAP is under the FARs, but has obtained
    exemptions in two areas
  • FAR Part 61 Reimbursement of Private Pilots
  • FAR Part 91, Subpart F Large and Turbine
    Powered Multi-Engine Airplanes
  • CAPR 60-1 lists CAP Missions and Pilot
    Limitations in Attachment 2

32
Remember to check the credentials of non-CAP
passengers (center)
33
  • QUESTIONS?

34
NIGHT FLIGHT
  • Typically are transport, route searches and ELT
    searches
  • CAPR 60-1 requires pilots to maintain a minimum
    of 2000' AGL at night (except for takeoff/landing
    or when under ATC control). During night
    over-water missions, both front-seat crewmembers
    must be CAP qualified mission pilots and both
    will be instrument qualified and current (the
    right-seat pilot need not be qualified in the
    specific aircraft).
  • Must be night current and its preferable to have
    an experienced crew aboard
  • Extra attention to the pre-flight and other
    preparations
  • Weather reports and advisories
  • Dew point spread (fog predictor)
  • Greatest threat is flying into weather you cant
    see


35
NIGHT FLIGHT
  • Before you launch, ask yourself a few questions
  • Are you really night proficient, or did you last
    fly 89 nights ago?
  • How long has it been since youve done a night
    cross-country?
  • How long has it been since youve done a night
    ELT search?
  • How long has it been since youve done night
    approaches?
  • When was the last time you practiced a night
    landing without a landing light?
  • How familiar are you with terrain and obstacles
    along the route?
  • Did you include all your flashlights in the
    weight balance?
  • Include night flying (and DF) in your proficiency
    regimen!


36
ILLUSIONS OF THE NIGHT
  • Some lead to spatial disorientation while others
    lead to landing errors
  • Illusions are the most common (JFK Jr.)
  • The leans enter a bank too slowly to stimulate
    the motion-sensing system of the inner ear
  • Coriolis
  • Graveyard spin or spiral
  • Inversion
  • Elevator
  • False horizon
  • Autokinesis

37
ILLUSIONS OF THE NIGHT
  • Surface conditions and atmospheric conditions can
    create illusions of incorrect height above and
    distance away from the runway
  • Prevent these illusions by pre-planning and by
    flying a standard approach to all landings
  • Runway width
  • Runway and terrain slopes
  • Featureless terrain
  • Atmospheric
  • Ground lighting

38
INSTRUMENT (IFR) FLIGHT
  • CAP missions are seldom conducted in IMC
  • Most likely is a transport flight (not to
    minimums)
  • Can do a route search, but ground teams are
    preferable under these circumstances
  • Can DF in IMC, but dangerous
  • Per CAPR 60-1, IFR flights will not depart unless
    weather is at or above the landing minimums at
    the departure airport.

39
INSTRUMENT (IFR) FLIGHT
  • Other requirements and recommendations
  • PIC has section XIV, Instrument Proficiency,
    signed off on CAPF 91
  • PIC meets FAA instrument proficiency requirements
  • PIC is proficient in the type of CAP aircraft
    shell be flying
  • For any flight other than a simple transport
    flight, its highly recommended that another
    instrument-proficient pilot fly in the right seat
  • Never fly a search in IMC alone
  • Never fly an IMC search if ground teams are
    available

40
VIDEO IMAGING
  • An increasing important CAP mission
  • Real-time and near real-time images are
    invaluable to emergency response personnel
  • Primarily
  • Digital still photos (some 35mm)
  • Video (analog and digital) with or without audio
    comments
  • Slow Scan or Satellite Phone video

41
VIDEO IMAGING
  • Essentials for a successful video imaging sortie
  • Ensure everyone knows what the target is and what
    types of images are needed
  • Ensure you know how to find the target, and brief
    the route and video flight patterns to be used
  • Ensure frequencies are understood and agreed upon
  • Define the duties of the PIC and the
    photographer the photographer will actually be
    in charge during the shoot
  • Ensure video equipment is working and that you
    have plenty of fresh batteries and film (media)
  • Clean the window, even if you plan to open them
    for the shoot
  • For Slow Scan, make sure everything is connected
    properly make a test transmission before you
    leave the ground

42
TYPICAL VIDEO IMAGING PROFILE
43
TYPICAL VIDEO IMAGING PROFILE
44
PROFICIENCY
  • CAPR 60-1 Attachment 9-series (approved MP
    proficiency flight profiles)
  • Practice search patterns with and without GPS
  • Practice at night
  • In-flight emergencies and maneuvers will be
    conducted in daylight VMC at an altitude high
    enough to allow recovery from an inadvertent
    stall/spin entry and complete a recovery no lower
    than 2000 AGL or the aircraft manufacturers,
    FAA or CAP approved training syllabi recommended
    altitude, whichever is higher.
  • Simulated forced landings will be discontinued
    prior to descending below 500 AGL (unless you
    intend to land)

45
PROFICIENCY
  • With the GPS, practice
  • Maintaining a constant track over ground
  • Select/display destinations
  • Determine heading, time and distance to a
    waypoint
  • Save lat/long coordinates as a User Waypoint
  • Save your present position as a waypoint, call it
    up rename
  • Enter and use flight plans
  • Exercise the nearest airport and VOR features
  • Practice navigating with present position
    (lat/long) displayed
  • Take someone with you! Good for them and more
    fun!

46
PROFICIENCY
  • CAPR 60-1 Attachments (C1 B12)
  • Practice search patterns, with and without GPS
  • Practice at night
  • Get current proficient at IFR flight

47
Proficiency(60-1)
48
PROFICIENCY
  • With the GPS, practice
  • Maintaining a constant track over ground
  • Select/display destinations
  • Determine heading, time and distance to a
    waypoint
  • Save lat/long coordinates as a User Waypoint
  • Save your present position as a waypoint, call it
    up rename
  • Enter and use flight plans
  • Exercise the nearest airport and VOR features
  • Practice navigating with present position
    (lat/long) displayed
  • Take someone with you! Good for them and more
    fun!

49
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50
  • QUESTIONS?

51
SECURITY CONCERNS AIRSPACE RESTRICTIONS
  • Heightened security concerns and the potential
    for flight restrictions are now part of our world
  • CAPs role in Homeland Defense will require
    greater attention to aircraft, aircrew and
    airport security

52
Security Concerns
  • CAP resources should be considered national
    security assets
  • Special security precautions must be taken to
    protect aircraft and other resources
  • hangar the aircraft whenever possible. May place
    small pieces of clear tape (that will break) on
    fuel caps, the cowling and/or doors to detect
    tampering.
  • Pay extra attention during pre-flight inspections
    and look for signs of fuel contamination
  • Be as low-key as possible dont draw
    unnecessary attention to yourself or discuss CAP
    business in public
  • Be aware of your surroundings at all times

53
Airspace Restrictions
  • FAA may issue Temporary Flight Restrictions
    (TFRs) at any time. May establish an ADIZ (see
    AIM Section 6).
  • Ask for FDC NOTAMS before each flight if
    security is heightened, check them before each
    leg.
  • Even without heightened security, avoid loitering
    or circling sensitive areas
  • Power plants (especially nuclear)
  • Reservoirs and dams
  • Government installations
  • Large stadiums or gatherings of people, air shows
  • If you need to circle one of these structures for
    training, coordinate with the facility and ATC
    first.
  • Monitor 121.5 MHz

54
In-flight Interception
  • Know how to respond (AIM 5-6-2)
  • An intercept has three phases
  • Approach
  • Identification
  • Post-intercept
  • If intercepted you should immediately
  • Follow the instructions of the intercepting
    aircraft
  • Notify ATC, if possible
  • Attempt to communicate (121.5 MHz)
  • Squawk 7700 unless told otherwise

55
Phases of FlightMission Pilot Perspective
  • Covered in general in Chapter 13 for
    scanners/observers
  • Checklist in Attachment 2, Flight Guide
  • Always follow the aircraft checklists right-seat
    should read each item and you acknowledge
  • First, an often overlooked asset the glove box
  • Small laminated sheets for crew and passenger
    briefings, crosswind chart, PA card (like CD), FM
    frequencies and callsigns, ELT deactivation
    stickers, and GPS cheat sheet
  • Small cleaning cloth (like for glasses) to clean
    instrument faces
  • Pencil/pen/grease pencil
  • Backup flashlight
  • Check periodically and purge non-essential stuff

56
Prior to Startup
  • Familiarize yourself with the aircraft paperwork
  • Engine, prop, airframe, and avionics logbooks
  • Can you tell when the oil change is due? Next 100
    hour/Annual? When the 24-month instrument
    certifications are due?
  • Other checks
  • Due date on CO monitor and Fire Extinguisher
    inspection
  • ELT battery due date
  • Last VOR check (within 30 days of instrument
    flight)
  • Fill out the flight log double-check Hobbs
    Tach times
  • Check the squawk sheet and make sure none of the
    entries make the aircraft unsafe for flight or
    reduce mission readiness

57
Documents andMinimum Equipment
  • Certificates and documents
  • Airworthiness and Registration certificates
  • Operating limitations
  • Passengers credentials
  • Minimum Operable Equipment (FAR 91 Subpart C)
  • VFR Day, VFR Night, IFR
  • FAR 91.213 to determine if you can take off with
    inoperable equipment
  • Other CAP requirements (CAPR 66-1 CAPF 71)
  • Review of logbooks, WB data
  • Restrictive placards
  • Pulselite, Avionics/Control Lock, Fire
    extinguisher, CO detector, cargo net, chocks and
    tie-downs, survival kit

58
WB, Loading and Pre-start
  • Weight Balance
  • Use accurate weights of passengers and all
    equipment
  • Note all fuel assumptions (fuel burn, winds
    aloft, etc.)
  • Ensure adequate fuel reserve (one hour at normal
    cruise)
  • Loading
  • Ensure equipment, crew weights and supplies
    correspond to your WB assumptions
  • Charts and maps
  • Windows clean (modify for video imaging mission)
  • Check and test special equipment
  • Parking area clear of obstacles
  • Pre-start
  • Passenger briefing, emergency egress procedure
  • Brief fuel management and taxi plan/diagram
  • Enter settings into GPS

59
Prior to Startup
  • Fill out the flight log double-check Hobbs
    Tach times
  • Check the squawk sheet and make sure none of the
    entries make the aircraft unsafe for flight
  • A related subject is the aircrafts paperwork
    you should familiarize yourself with
  • Engine, prop, airframe, and avionics logbooks
  • Can you tell when the oil change is due? Next 100
    hour/Annual? When the 24-month instrument
    certifications are due?
  • Other checks
  • Due date on CO monitor
  • Due date for fire extinguisher inspection
  • ELT battery due date
  • Last VOR check (within 30 days of instrument
    flight)

60
Startup
  • Aircraft checklists
  • Always use them (habit) and keep them close at
    hand
  • Seat belts, and shoulder harness at or below 1000
    AGL
  • Startup
  • Ensure DF, FM radio Audio Panel properly set up
  • Rotating Beacon ON and signal marshaller
  • Lean the engine after starting (gt 3000 DA)
  • Set up radio and navigation instruments

61
Taxi Mishaps
  • Becoming a bigger problem each year (1 trend in
    CAP)
  • Pilots are
  • straying from designated taxi routes
  • not allowing adequate clearance and not
    considering the tail and wings during turns
  • taxiing too fast for conditions and taxiing with
    obscured visibility
  • distracted by cockpit duties
  • not using other crewmembers to ensure clearance

62
Startup Taxi
  • Aircraft checklists
  • Always use them (habit) and keep them close at
    hand
  • Seat belts, and shoulder harness at or below 1000
    AGL
  • Startup
  • Try to include DF self-test in your scan when
    applying power
  • Ensure FM radio properly set up (radio and audio
    panel)
  • When gt3000 MSL, lean the engine after starting
  • Set up GPS enter first waypoint if applicable
  • Taxi
  • Collision avoidance!
  • Review crew assignments for taxi
  • Sterile cockpit rules are now in effect

63
Taxi Mishaps
  • Strategies
  • Thorough planning and preparation eliminates
    distractions
  • Crew assignments for taxi
  • If within ten feet of an obstacle, stop, and then
    taxi at a pace not to exceed a slow walk until
    clear
  • Do not follow other taxiing aircraft too closely
    (e.g., 50 feet behind light aircraft 100 feet
    behind small multi-engine and jet aircraft 500
    feet behind helicopters and heavies)
  • Use proper tailwind/headwind/crosswind control
    inputs
  • Treat taxiing with the seriousness it deserves
  • Use exterior lights (be considerate of others)
  • Sterile cockpit rules

64
Taxi
  • Collision avoidance! Follow CAPR 60-1
    requirements for taxi operations. Read back
    taxi/hold-short.
  • Review crew assignments for taxi, takeoff,
    departure
  • Sterile cockpit rules are now in effect
  • Remind crew that most midair collisions occur
  • Daylight VFR
  • Within five miles of an airport (especially
    un-controlled)
  • At or below 3000 AGL
  • Signal marshaller before taxi, test brakes
  • Exterior lights on (be considerate at night)

65
Takeoff, Climb and Departure
  • Takeoff
  • Collision avoidance! Check for landing traffic
    turn on landing light when you begin rolling
  • Cross-wind limits (POH or 15 knots, whichever is
    less)
  • High density altitude lean for full power
    before takeoff
  • Climb
  • Collision avoidance!
  • Lean (burn gas not valves)
  • Use shallow S-turns and lift wing before turns to
    check traffic
  • Departure
  • Collision avoidance! Keep crew apprised of
    conflicts.
  • Sterile cockpit rules can be relaxed when clear
  • Organize the cockpit, review assignments, set up
    for next task
  • Check fuel status and altimeter setting hourly

66
The Search Area
  • Transit
  • In none assigned, use odd altitudes during
    transit to minimize chance for midair collision
  • Cross military training routes perpendicular. If
    you see one fighter, look for the wingman
  • Double-check settings and review methods to
    reduce crew fatigue or high altitude effects
  • Update weather, file PIREP, review procedures
  • Approaching the search area
  • Review assignments
  • Check navigational instruments against each other
  • Stabilize aircraft at least two miles out
  • Exterior lights on

67
The Search Area
  • In the search area
  • Log and report In the Search Area
  • Log deviations from assigned search parameters
  • Hourly updates of altimeter (closest source) and
    fuel status
  • Limit time spent below 800 AGL (no lower than 500
    AGL during daylight 2000 AGL at night)
  • Airspeed gt Vx
  • Monitor yourself and crew for fatigue and high
    altitude effects
  • Departing the search area
  • Log and report Leaving the Search Area
    reorganize cockpit
  • Double-check heading and altitude assigned to
    transit to next search area or return to base
  • Reorganize the cockpit

68
Approach, Descent and Landing
  • Approach
  • Get ATIS/AWOS, review airport/airspace diagram,
    taxi plan
  • Sterile cockpit rules are now in effect
  • Collision avoidance! Lights on within 10 miles
    of airport.
  • Decent
  • Collision avoidance! Shallow S-turns and lift
    wings before turns
  • Richen mixture as you reduce power
  • Landing
  • Read back all clearances and hold-short
    instructions
  • Defer after-landing check until off the active
  • Remember to fly the plane till you shut off the
    engine
  • Taxi back per taxi plan, watch for Marshallers
  • At engine shutdown, show Marshaller the keys,
    install chocks

69
Shutdown and Post-Flight
  • Shutdown
  • Fill out logs
  • Enter any discrepancies (be specific and
    complete)
  • Secure aircraft
  • Post-flight. If this was the last flight of the
    day
  • Install chocks, tie-downs, avionics/control lock,
    Pitot cover and engine plugs
  • Check Master Switch and Parking Brake OFF
  • Remove trash, personal equipment, and special
    equipment
  • Lock windows, doors and baggage compartment
  • Inspect aircraft check oil and refuel
  • Clean the aircraft (at least the windshield and
    windows)
  • Sign off any 101T tasks that were accomplished

70
  • QUESTIONS?

71
How can I improve POD?
  • Pay attention and ask questions during briefings
  • Plan thoroughly so you can concentrate on the
    mission at hand
  • Hit your numbers! Altitude, airspeed, position
  • Use the GPS very accurate, especially with no
    landmarks
  • Be mindful of your crew no unnecessary steep
    turns look for less turbulence or cooler air if
    possible ensure sufficient breaks ensure
    sufficient fluid consumption watch for the
    crewmember whos obviously not feeling well but
    doesnt want to complain.
  • Give a thorough debriefing and be totally honest
  • Stay proficient!

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Flying the Mission
  • Mechanics of planning and executing search
    patterns are covered in Chapters 10 and 11
  • Number of scanners
  • Most planning (and tables) assume there are at
    least two scanners on board, one looking out each
    side of the aircraft
  • Remember you (the pilot) are not a scanner!
  • If there is only one scanner
  • Will only be scanning out one side, usually the
    right
  • You must plan and fly so as to keep the right
    side of the aircraft facing the search area at
    all times, on each leg
  • Increases the time needed to search a given area
  • Reduces search effectiveness (less double
    coverage)
  • Parallel track or creeping line patterns not
    recommended

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Flying a Search Pattern
  • Your primary contribution to the success of the
    mission is to fly assigned search patterns
    completely and precisely
  • This must be done while fulfilling the duties of
    a PIC primarily see and avoid obstacles and
    other aircraft
  • Must consider the possibility of engine trouble
    or failure at low altitudes always have an out
  • Low and slow and the engine quits. Where do you
    land?
  • Always be honest and forthright with yourself and
    crew
  • Not at the right airspeed or altitude when you
    enter the pattern? Exit and re-enter when youre
    set up.
  • Made the last turn a tad wide? Redo the leg, if
    necessary.
  • Scanner complaining that he cant see anything?
    Slow to something less than 120 knots.

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To Go or Not to Go?That is the Question
  • Lets see..been briefed, planned the sortie, got
    my releases, preflight is done and the crew is
    briefed
  • A mission pilot may accomplish all of this and
    still not be safe to fly the mission
  • How can this be?

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To Go or Not to Go?That is the Question
  • It all comes down to the individual and the
    circumstances
  • How long has it been since youve taken off with
    a 14 knot cross-wind?
  • Have you ever taken off and landed on an icy
    runway?
  • When did you last fly cross-country at night?
  • When was the last time you flew in actual IMC?
  • Two primary stupid (mission) pilot traits
  • Overconfidence (Who? Me?? No!!!)
  • The need to accomplish the mission no matter what

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To Go or Not to Go?That is the Question
  • The most effective way to prevent you from
    becoming the weak link in an accident chain
  • Be brutally honest about your abilities, given
    the present (or predicted) circumstances
  • A mission pilot must have the courage and
    integrity to decline a mission you dont feel
    comfortable doing
  • Always remember that others are putting their
    lives in your hands!
  • DISCUSS SOME SITUATIONS from the text and from
    the pilots

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  • QUESTIONS?

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Pilot Records and Form 91 Review
79
Introduction
  • The purpose of this section is to review the CAPF
    91 (CAP Mission Pilot Checkout)
  • First, a look at what records should be in your
    Pilot File

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Pilot Records(from 60-1 2-8 and 60-2)
  • Copy of FAA pilot certificate
  • Copy of current FAA CFI certificate, if
    applicable
  • Copy of current FAA Medical certificate
  • Documentation of flight review or equivalent (may
    be annotated on current CAPF 5)
  • Copies of most recent Form 5s establishing
    aircraft qualification in each type in which
    qualified
  • Copy of each completed Aircraft Questionnaire

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Pilot Records(from 60-1 2-8 and 60-2)
  • Proof of completion of annual Form 5 written exam
    (certificate or answer sheet)
  • Copy of most current Form 91
  • Signed Statement of Understanding
  • Copies of current designation (CAPF 2a signed by
    current wing commander) as Cadet Orientation
    Pilot, ROTC Cadet Orientation Pilot, Check Pilot,
    Instructor Pilot, Mission Check Pilot, and/or
    Subordinate Stan/Eval Officer
  • Copy of letter or certificate indicating
    successful completion of the National Check Pilot
    Standardization Course
  • Need not be maintained in records once all the
    Wings records are in the Flight Management
    System (FMS)

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Optional Records
  • FRO Personal authorization
  • Current CAP Membership card
  • Current CAP 101 card and CAPF 114 (training
    record)
  • CAP Communications certificate (CAPF 76, ROA)
  • Award of Aeronautical Rating (CAPF 2a)
  • Documentation of total PIC hours (photocopy of
    last page of your logbook)
  • FAA AP certificate
  • Emergency Notification Data (CAPF 60)
  • FAA Wings certificate (highest level held)
  • Current CPR, Basic Care, Bloodborne Pathogens
    cards
  • Keep expired Form 5s at home

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CAPF 91Mission Pilot Checkout
  • This section reviews the CAP Mission Pilot
    Checkout
  • CAPR 60-1, Attachment 6 describes what to expect
    before, during and after your CAPF 91 checkout
  • Remember, you can use CAPR 60-1, Attachment 9-5
    to practice for your checkout

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ORAL DISCUSSION(CAPF 91, I.)
  • Ensure current CAPF 116 Exam Passed (CAPT 116
    Parts 1 2)
  • Mission Base Procedures
  • Air-to-ground signals
  • Mission safety procedures (as required)
  • CAP Radio Procedures (as required)
  • Individual Crew Equipment/Clothing
  • Search Procedures
  • Map and Chart Reading

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ORAL DISCUSSION(60-1, Attch. 6)
  • Mission flight planning, including CAPF 104
  • Search patterns and procedures
  • Observer/Scanner briefing and utilization
  • Use of the standardized chart grid system
  • Debriefing procedures
  • Procedures for completing and submitting CAPF 108

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PRE-FLIGHT PLANNING
  • Determine Performance Limitations
  • Obtain Mission Briefing
  • Gridded Sectional
  • Observer Briefing
  • Fuel Planning Reserve
  • Ground Team Coordination

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VISUAL SEARCH PATTERNS PROCEDURES
  • Locate Grid or Area (without electronic aids)
  • Establish Search Altitude and Speed
  • Parallel Search Procedures
  • Creeping Line Search Procedures
  • Expanding Square Search Procedures
  • Ground Team Coordination

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ELECTRONIC SEARCHPATTERNS PROCEDURES
  • Locate Starting Point (with without electronic
    aids)
  • Establish Appropriate Search Altitude
  • VHF-DF Procedures
  • Wing Null Procedures
  • Aural (build-fade) Procedures

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MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN PROCEDURES
  • Locate Grid/Area (with without electronic nav)
  • Establish Search Altitude
  • Contour Search Procedures
  • Canyon Search Procedures
  • Ridge Crossing procedures
  • Communications Procedures
  • Wing/Updrafts/Downdrafts
  • Mountain Wave Effect

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EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
  • Low Altitude Engine Failure
  • Ditching
  • Landing on Unprepared Surface
  • Deteriorating Weather

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MISSION FLIGHT MANEUVERS
  • 720 Steep Turns
  • Turns About a Point
  • Message Drop Procedure (verbal)
  • Airspeed Control
  • Low Speed Maneuvering
  • Low Level Navigation (without electronic navaids)
  • Judgment

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SAFETY AWARENESS
  • Clearing Turns and Collision Avoidance
  • Vigilance
  • Cockpit Resource Management
  • Risk Management

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PROFICIENCY
  • CAPR 60-1 gives considerable attention to
    proficiency
  • Attachment 7 Self-Conducted Proficiency Flight
    Guidelines
  • Attachment 9-series Mission Flight Profiles (use
    with B12)
  • 9-1 Visual Search
  • 9-2 Video Imaging
  • 9-3 Electronic Search
  • 9-4 Transportation
  • 9-5 CAPF 91 Practice
  • 9-6 Mountain Search

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  • QUESTIONS?
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