Flight Operations

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Flight Operations
Page 18 in Guide 40 minutes Includes Case
Study Instructor See Notes View of this
Overhead.
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Main Points

• Flight Release Officer Program
• Short-Notice Inspection Safety Program
• Training and Certification for Flight Crews

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Flight Release Officer Program

• Importance
• Authorize pilot to fly as Pilot In Command in CAP
  aircraft on CAP flight activities
• Verify the pilot and crew meet mission objectives

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Flight Release Program

• Training and Certification
• FROs are initially trained by NHQ CAP Website
• take FRO tutorial primarily based on CAPR 60-1
• pass FRO exam
• give copy of certificate to unit commander
• unit commander appoints
• unit commander notifies Wing
• Wing places you on list of Flight Release
  Officers
• list appears on WMU (Wing Management Utility)
• Recurring training as needed

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Flight Release Program

• How a Flight Gets Released
• Be on Wing Authorized Pilot List
• for you, your aircraft, passengers and people on
  the ground to be covered under CAP insurance.
• to do this you must
• Meet requirements for appropriate pilot category
• Input information in MIMS and WMU
• Have unit commander or Wing DO verify

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Flight Release Program

• How a Flight Gets Released
• Pilot finds FRO in WMU and makes contact. A FRO
  is
• qualified incident commander
• unit commander of a flying unit (with or without
  flight activity)
• experienced CAP pilot with a Private Pilot or
  higher FAA certificate
• others may qualify if they meet specific
  requirements in CAPR 60-1

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Flight Release Program

• Paperwork Involved
• Pilot is asked questions from CAPF 99, Flight
  Release Log
• date and mission symbol
• Air Force or Wing mission number
• aircraft type and N number
• departure destination points
• who is pilot in command, crew and passengers
• estimated flight time
• purpose of the flight
• all passengers meet CAPR 60-1 criteria
• pilot and passengers are current CAP members

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Flight Release Program

• When Flight Release Paperwork Checked
• 5th of each month original CAPF 99 to
• Capt James E. Yarborough, Wing Director of Air
  Operations (not the Standardization/Evaluation
  Officer) for form verification
• 20 of each month Wing DO
• CAPF 18 to NHQ CAP on line
• Previous months CAPF 18 to Wing Director

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Flight Release Program

• If a Flight is Not Properly Released
• Suspension or revocation of CAP flying privileges
• Commanders with this authority notify pilot
• In writing
• Within 7 days of suspected
• Includes reason(s) action was taken
• Copy to Region Commander within 14 days

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Short-Notice Inspections

• Importance
• Preserve flying program that is
• safe
• CAP regulation compliant
• Short is within 7 days of notification.
• Done once within every 18 months.

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Short-Notice Inspections

• What is Evaluated
• Flying safety program (safety meetings
  attendance records)
• Flying records/unit pilots records review
• should be in separate file from the CAPF 45
  personnel and training records
• contains copy of FAA pilot license, current
  medical certificate, current CAP Forms 5 and 91

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Short-Notice Inspections

• What is Evaluated
• Flight release procedures
• appointment and training of FROs
• CAPF 99, CAP Flight Release Log
• flight categories
• flight times Maintenance of units assigned CAP
  aircraft
• Overall evaluation (flying, safety, operational
  regulations)

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Short-Notice Inspections

• Evaluator Qualifications
• The evaluator
• must be pilot-qualified members knowledgeable of
  flying safety and CAP flying directives.
• Capt James E. Yarborough, Wing Director of Air
  Operations (not the Inspector General, Director
  of Operations, or the Standardization/Evaluation
  Officer)
• Wing results
• 10 of 11 Squadrons evaluated in last 12 months.
• Wing overall score was satisfactory.

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Short-Notice Inspections

• Assistance to Squadrons
• Types of help
• Answer questions by e-mail
• Staff Assistance (pre-inspection) Visit

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Short-Notice Inspections

• Consequences of Repeat
• Unsatisfactory Rating
• Units flight operations will be grounded until
  compliant.
• Units corporate aircraft may be reassigned.

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Training and Certification

• NHQ CAP On-Line Courses and Tests
• CAPF 5 Exam and Course
• CAPR 60-1
• Cadet Orientation Pilot Course
• SSF/CAP Wing Runner Course
• CAP Flight Release Officer Course
• Pilot and Flight Crew Familiarization Courses
• On-Line courses for Blanik L-23 Glider
• Satellite Digital Imaging System Training
• Takeoff Landing Flight Clinic in a Box Course
• Wing Supplements to CAPR 60-1

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Training and Certification

• Wing Pilot Certification Courses
• Flight clinics
• 2 a year, one in North, one in South
• Point of Contact
• NHQ CAP for non-flight clinics
• Maj Henry Wearsch, Wing Director of Operations,
  for flight clinics

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Training and Certification

• Certification Descriptions (CAPR 60-1)
• CAP pilots
• Prerequisite to any other certification type
• Instructor pilots
• Teach pilots for CAP pilot specialty
• Check pilots
• Evaluate pilots to qualify and stay current
• Mission Pilots
• Fly SAR/DR missions
• Orientation Pilots
• ROTC 300 PIC hours, Cadet Flight Syllabus
• CAP 200 PIC hours, Cadet Flight Syllabus

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Flight Operations Case Studyoverhead 1 of 3

• Flight Safety Program Resistance
• (p. 29 in Student Guide)
• You are the wings Director of Operations and
  will be making a presentation at the annual wing
  conference. In the past two years, the wing has
  had to institute the flight Release Program, the
  Short-Notice Flight Inspection Program, and other
  wing-specific programs to ensure a safe and
  effective flight program.

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Flight Operations Case Studyoverhead 2 of 3

• Flight Safety Program Resistance
• (p. 29 in Student Guide)
• These programs have met with some resistance at
  the squadron level, and even among some wing
  staff members. They feel that even though these
  policies and programs must be complied with, they
  are too intrusive, and you are to gung-ho to
  find something wrong. In addition, you have had
  to give some Marginal and Unsatisfactory ratings
  to two of the wing squadrons in operational
  areas, but the wing commander concurred with your
  findings.

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Flight Operations Case Studyoverhead 3 of 3

• Flight Safety Program Resistance
• (p. 29 in Student Guide)
• You suspect that some of the reasons for the
  dissention is the natural aversion people have to
  anything new or restrictive. Still, you know that
  these programs must be carried out. How are you
  going to sell your position at the wing
  conference? What will you say to, if not to
  change minds outright, to at least ensure
  compliance?
• questions and answers on following overheads

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Flight Operations Case Study

• Flight Safety Program Resistance
• (p. 29 in Student Guide)
• Whose support would you enlist first?

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Flight Operations Case Study

• Flight Safety Program Resistance
• (p. 29 in Student Guide)
• Whose support would you enlist first?
• You should enlist the support of the wing
  commander and staff. The wing commander should be
  up front in his supportin action as well as in
  thought. Squadrons pay attention to the attitude
  of the wing staff, so their unified supportor at
  least the appearance of itwill take some of the
  wing out of squadron resistance.
• Then, you must sell it to the squadron
  commanders. They need to understand how it will
  benefit them or how they will be hurt if they do
  not support it.

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Flight Operations Case Study

• Flight Safety Program Resistance
• (p. 29 in Student Guide)
• Can you really build up support at the Wing
  conference?

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Flight Operations Case Study

• Flight Safety Program Resistance
• (p. 29 in Student Guide)
• Can you really build up support at the Wing
  conference?
• Yes. Maybe not to the degree you want, but if you
  have laid the groundwork properly and present it
  as a necessary and beneficial program, you can
  get some support established. The important part
  lies in the follow-up work you do.

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Flight Operations Case Study

• Flight Safety Program Resistance
• (p. 29 in Student Guide)
• What kind of groundwork can you lay?

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Flight Operations Case Study

• Flight Safety Program Resistance
• (p. 29 in Student Guide)
• What kind of groundwork can you lay?
• Answers vary.

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Flight Operations Case Study

• Flight Safety Program Resistance
• (p. 29 in Student Guide)
• How would you set up the presentation? What
  approach would you take?

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Flight Operations Case Study

• Flight Safety Program Resistance
• (p. 29 in Student Guide)
• How would you set up the presentation? What
  approach would you take?
• Answers vary.

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Flight Operations Case Study

• Flight Safety Program Resistance
• (p. 29 in Student Guide)
• What strategy will you use to build support from
  the field?

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Flight Operations Case Study

• Flight Safety Program Resistance
• (p. 29 in Student Guide)
• What strategy will you use to build support from
  the field?
• Answers vary. Look for marketing as well as
  compliance centered approaches.
• Compliance is an ethical issuediscuss how this
  is so.

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Flight Operations Case Study

• Flight Safety Program Resistance
• (p. 29 in Student Guide)
• What will you do if you cannot foster support?

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Flight Operations Case Study

• Flight Safety Program Resistance
• (p. 29 in Student Guide)
• What will you do if you cannot foster support?
• Answers vary, but all answers must include the
  continued administration of the program.

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Flight Operations Case Study

• Flight Safety Program Resistance
• (p. 29 in Student Guide)
• How do you think the aversion to these policies
  affect other policies which are trying to be
  implemented within the wing?

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Flight Operations Case Study

• Flight Safety Program Resistance
• (p. 29 in Student Guide)
• How do you think the aversion to these policies
  affect other policies which are trying to be
  implemented within the wing?
• Answers vary. Look for relationships with safety,
  flying, and ground missions of all types. Discuss
  why this is so in addition to what programs are
  affected.