Minnesota Wing Aircrew Training: O2107

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Minnesota Wing Aircrew Training O-2107

• Prepare for a Trip to a Remote Mission Base

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Whats the Rush?

• Why do we go to so much trouble to train mission
  aircrew members and encourage members to spend
  the time it takes to stay proficient?
• Time is such a critical factor in missing person
  or aircraft crash searches
• Treat every minute after you been alerted as
  critical to the survival chances of the victims

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Survival Rates

• Of the 29 who survive a crash, 60 will be
  injured
• 81 will die if not located within 24 hours
• 94 will die if not located within 48 hours
• Of those 40 uninjured in the crash
• 50 will die if not located within 72 hours
• Survival chances diminish rapidly after 72 hours

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Response Times

• Average time from the aircraft being reported
  missing to AFRCC notification
• 15.6 hours if no flight plan was filed
• 3.9 hours if a VFR flight plan was filed
• 1.1 hours if an IFR flight plan was filed
• Average time from the aircraft being reported
  missing (LKP) to CAP locating and recovering
• 62.6 hours if no flight plan was filed
• 18.2 hours if a VFR flight plan was filed
• 11.5 hours if an IFR flight plan was filed

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Whats the Rush?

• What do these statistics tell us?
• We must take each mission seriously!
• Strive to do everything better, smarter and
  faster!
• Training, practice and pre-planning help us
  accomplish these goals
• Also tells us, as pilots, to always file a flight
  plan

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Leaving Home Base

• Proper uniforms per CAPM 39-1
• Required credentials
• Current charts for the entire trip (gridded, if
  you have them)
• Personal supplies and money
• Equipment such as cell phone and flashlights
  (including spare batteries)
• Charts and maps

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Leaving Home Base

• Check the Weight and balance, CO monitor Fire
  Extinguisher status, fuel reserve and management
  plan, Discrepancy Log
• Tie-downs, chocks, Pitot cover and engine plugs
• Equipment such as fuel tester, survival kit,
  binoculars, sick sacks, and cleaning supplies

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Leaving Home Base

• Obtain briefing and file FAA Flight Plan
• Complete Inbound 104 and get released by
  Mission FRO

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Leaving Home BaseIMSAFE

• Illness
• Medication
• Stress
• Alcohol
• Fatigue
• Emotion

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FROChecklist(60-1)
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Pre-flight begins even before you even get to the
aircraft
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Crew Duty Limitations

• Duty day rules apply to scanners and observers as
  well as pilots (CAPR 60-1)
• 14 hour duty day max
• Duty Day is defined as beginning when reporting
  to work or the CAP activity, whichever occurs
  first. It ends at engine shut down.
• 8 scheduled flight hours within a duty day max
• Under no circumstances will flight time exceed 10
  hours
• 10 hours rest between duty days minimum

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Preflight

• Check the aircraft Pre-flight (e.g., CAPF 71,
  CAP Aircraft Inspection Checklist)
• Check the date and starting Tach Hobbs times to
  ensure you won't exceed
• mid-cycle oil change (40-60 hours, not to exceed
  four months)
• 100-hour/Annual
• 24-month Transponder inspection, Pitot-Static
  system inspection, Altimeter calibration, ELT
  inspection/Battery replacement date
• 30-day VOR check for IFR flight
• Check the AD compliance list
• Fill in the CAP flight log

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Preflight

• Check the Discrepancy Log ensure no discrepancy
  makes the aircraft unsafe for flight or reduces
  your ability to accomplish the mission
• Verify any outstanding discrepancies during your
  aircraft preflight. If new discrepancies are
  discovered, log them and ensure the aircraft is
  still airworthy and mission ready
• During loading, ensure that all supplies and
  equipment correspond to what you used in your
  Weight Balance
• Windshield and windows are clean, and that the
  chocks, tie-downs, and Pitot tube covers/engine
  plugs are stowed
• Check and test special equipment

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Preflight

• Check parking area for obstacles, arrange for
  marshaller or wing-walker
• The mission pilot will perform the passenger
  briefing and review the emergency egress
  procedure. The pilot should also brief the crew
  on the fuel management plan and assumptions, and
  assign responsibility for inquiring about fuel
  status once an hour.
• The pilot will review the taxi plan and taxiway
  diagram, and assign crew responsibilities for
  taxi
• Once everyone is settled in, organize the cockpit
  and review the "Engine Fire on Start" procedure

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Departure

• Always use the checklists use the
  challenge/response method
• Seat belts and shoulder harness (always lt1000
  AGL)
• Collision avoidance! An increasing number of
  taxi mishaps are the number one trend in CAP.
  Investigations reveal that pilots are straying
  from designated taxi routes, not allowing
  adequate clearance, not considering the tail and
  wings during turns, taxiing too fast for
  conditions, taxiing with obscured visibility,
  distracted by cockpit duties, and not using other
  crewmembers to ensure clearance.

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Departure

• CAPR 60-1 taxi rules
• Taxi no faster than a slow walk when within 10
  feet of obstacles
• Maintain at least 50' behind light single-engine
  aircraft, 100' behind small multi-engine and jet
  aircraft, and 500' behind heavies and taxiing
  helicopters
• Go over the crew assignments for takeoff and
  departure and make sure each crewmember knows in
  which direction they should be looking during
  each.
• Remind the crew that midair collisions are most
  likely to occur in daylight VFR conditions within
  five miles of an airport at or below 3,000 AGL!
  This means that most midair collisions occur in
  or near the traffic pattern. Since the pilot has
  only one set of eyes, this (and aircraft design)
  leaves several 'blind spots' that the observer
  and scanner must cover -- particularly between
  your 4 and 8 o'clock positions.

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Departure

• Be sure and include the DF unit's Alarm light
  self-test in your scan during startup. The light
  should blink for several seconds if it doesn't
  your unit may be inoperative.
• Ensure that the DF, Audio Panel and FM radio are
  set up properly. If possible, perform an FM
  radio check. Select your initial VOR radial(s)
  and GPS setting (e.g., destination or flight
  plan).
• Obtain ATIS and Clearance (read back all
  clearances and hold-short instructions). Then
  verify the crosswind limitation. Set up the
  navigational instruments (e.g., VOR radials and
  GPS destination, entry points and waypoints)
• Once you begin taxiing, check your brakes

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Departure

• Sterile cockpit rules are now in effect
• Keep the checklist close at hand, open to
  Emergency Procedures
• Check for landing aircraft before taking the
  active
• At takeoff, start the Observer Log with the time
  and Hobbs for "Wheels Up
• The FAA's "operation lights on" encourages pilots
  to keep aircraft lights on when operating within
  10 miles of an airport, or wherever flocks of
  birds may be expected
• While departing the airport environs practice
  collision avoidance and maintain the sterile
  cockpit until well clear of traffic and
  obstacles. Shallow S-turns and lifting a wing
  before turns may be used to check for traffic.
  The crew must keep each other appraised of
  conflicting aircraft and obstacles

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Arrival at Mission Base

• Obtain ATIS (or AWOS) as soon as possible. May
  be able to contact mission base on FM radio.
• Review taxi plan/airport taxi diagram and make
  crew assignments for approach, landing and taxi
• Make sure each crewmember knows in which
  direction they should be looking during each.
  Remind the crew that midair collisions are most
  likely to occur in daylight VFR conditions within
  five miles of an airport at or below 3,000 AGL!
  This means that most midair collisions occur in
  the traffic pattern, with over half occurring on
  final approach
• Sterile cockpit rules are now in effect

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Arrival at Mission Base

• Practice collision avoidance by turning the
  aircraft exterior lights on when within 10 miles
  of the airport.
• Read back all clearances and hold-short
  instructions
• Defer after-landing checks until clear
• Log and report "Wheels Down"
• Watch for Marshallers and follow their
  directions, signal Ignition Switch OFF (hold keys
  out the window) so they can chock

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Arrival at Mission Base(with style)
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Arrival at Mission Base

• Secure the aircraft
• Avionics/Control lock, Master Switch OFF
• Tie-downs, chocks, Pitot tube cover and engine
  plugs
• Close windows, Fuel Selector Switch in 'Right' or
  'Left,' and Parking Brake OFF remove personal
  items and special equipment lock the doors and
  baggage compartment.
• Oil fuel, clean windows and leading edges
• Close FAA flight plan, call FRO
• Check aircrew and aircraft into the mission
• Complete Inbound 104
• Get sortie assignment
• Determine food and lodging