# Presentation: 172053

## Mission Aircrew CourseChapter 1: Crewmember Duties and Responsibilities(Oct 2006)

**Mission Aircrew Course****Chapter 1: Crewmember Duties and Responsibilities****(Oct 2006)**

## Introduction

**Administrative Items**

**Notes:**
Introduce Instructors - length of time in CAP, aviation experience 
Have class introduce themselves - length of time in CAP, aviation experience
Administrative Items
Test is open book, passing score 80%

## Throughout this course, each objective and task is followed by:
The mission specialty rating to which the objective applies (S = Scanner; O = Observer; P = Pilot)
The section in the Aircrew Reference Text where the answer to the objective may be found
Tasks are taken from the Aircrew & Flightline Tasks Guide

**The mission specialty rating to which the objective applies (S = Scanner; O = Observer; P = Pilot)**
**The section in the *****Aircrew Reference Text***** where the answer to the objective may be found**
**Tasks are taken from the Aircrew & Flightline Tasks Guide**

**Objectives & Tasks**

## P-0101 KEEP A LOG (S)
P-2002 DISCUSS GENERAL CAP-RELATED SAFETY REQUIREMENTS AND ISSUES (P)
P-2003 DISCUSS TYPE OF FLIGHTS PERFORMED BY CAP AIRCREWS (P)
P-2004 DISCUSS SECURITY CONCERNS AND PROCEDURES (P)
P-2007 DISCUSS MISSION OBSERVER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (O)
P-2013 DISCUSS MISSION SCANNER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (S)
P-2014 DISCUSS CAP LIABIILTY COVERAGE AND MISHAP REPORTING (S)
P-2015 ENTER DATA INTO CAP FORMS (S)
O-2016 DEMONSTRATE SAFETY WHILE TAXIING (S)

**P-2002 DISCUSS GENERAL CAP-RELATED SAFETY REQUIREMENTS AND ISSUES**** (P)**
**P-2003 DISCUSS TYPE OF FLIGHTS PERFORMED BY CAP AIRCREWS**** (P)**
**P-2004 DISCUSS SECURITY CONCERNS AND PROCEDURES**** (P)**
**P-2007 DISCUSS MISSION OBSERVER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**** (O)**
**P-2013 DISCUSS MISSION SCANNER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**** (S)**
**P-2014 DISCUSS CAP LIABIILTY COVERAGE AND MISHAP REPORTING**** (S)**
**P-2015 ENTER DATA INTO CAP FORMS**** (S)**
**O-2016 DEMONSTRATE SAFETY WHILE TAXIING**** (S)**

**Aircrew Tasks**

## State mission scanner duties and responsibilities. {S; 1.1}
State mission observer duties and responsibilities. {O; 1.2}
Discuss CAP missions {S; 1.4}
Discuss liability coverage and applicability {S; 1.5}
List the general rules for entering data into forms. {S; 1.7.1}

**State mission observer duties and responsibilities. {O; 1.2}**
**Discuss CAP missions ****{S; 1.4}**
**Discuss liability coverage and applicability {S; 1.5}**
**List the general rules for entering data into forms. {S; 1.7.1}**

**Objectives**

## CAPR 60-series Review

**CAPR 60-series Review**

## Mission Scanner Requirements

**Trainee**
**Qualified General Emergency Services (GES)**
**At least 18 years of age (minimum; should be mature)**
**101T-MS familiarization and preparatory training**
**Commanders authorization**
**Qualification**
**101T-MS requirements**
**Exercise participation (two separate missions)**
**Unit certification and recommendation**

**Notes:**
 From 101T-MS

## Mission Observer Requirements

**Trainee**
**Qualified General Emergency Services (GES)**
**Qualified as Mission Scanner**
**At least 18 years of age (minimum; should be mature)**
**101T-MO familiarization and preparatory training**
**Commanders authorization**
**Qualification**
**101T-MO requirements**
**Complete Basic Communications User Training and Task L-001**
**Exercise participation (two separate missions)**
**Unit certification and recommendation**

**Notes:**
 From 101T-MO

## Mission Pilot Requirements

**Trainee**
**Qualified CAP Airplane Pilot (IAW CAPR 60-1, with at least 175 hours PIC including 50 hours cross-country per 60-3)**
**Qualified as Mission Scanner**
**Current General Emergency Services (CAPT 116 Parts 1 & 2)**
**At least 18 years of age (minimum; should be mature)**
**101T-MP familiarization and preparatory training**
**Commanders authorization**
**Qualification**
**101T-MP advanced training requirements and CAPF 91**
**Includes at least 200 hours PIC with 50 hours cross-country**
**Exercise participation (two missions; see 60-3)**
**Unit certification and recommendation**
**Current Continuing Education exam (CAPT 117, Part 2)**

**Notes:**
 From 101T-MP

## Individual Responsibility: “I’M SAFE”

**I***llness*
**M***edication*
**S***tress*
**A***lcohol*
**F***atigue*
**E***motion*

## PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY: Visual Search
Be prepared to fly the mission — clothing, equipment, credentials, etc.
Assist in avoiding obstacles during taxiing
Obey ‘sterile cockpit’ rules – limit conversation to mission- and safe-related topics during critical phases of flight, or anytime the crew is executing high-load tasks
Critical phases of flight include takeoff and landing
Any time the aircraft is low altitude is a critical phase of flight
Employ effective scanning techniques.
Report observations accurately and honestly.
Keep accurate sketches and notes.
Complete all required paperwork. 
Conduct the mission as planned & report availability.
Return borrowed or assigned equipment.

**Be prepared to fly the mission — ****clothing, equipment, credentials, etc.**
**Assist in avoiding obstacles during taxiing**
**Obey ‘sterile cockpit’ rules – ****limit conversation to mission- and safe-related topics during critical phases of flight, or anytime the crew is executing high-load tasks**
**Critical phases of flight include takeoff and landing**
**Any time the aircraft is low altitude is a critical phase of flight**
**Employ effective scanning techniques.**
**Report observations accurately and honestly.**
**Keep accurate sketches and notes.**
**Complete ****all**** required paperwork. **
**Conduct the mission as planned & report availability.**
**Return borrowed or assigned equipment.**

**Scanner Duties & Responsibilities**

**Notes:**
1.1 (Mission Aircrew Reference Text section)
Objective 1.1 – Demonstrate knowledge of mission scanner duties and responsibilities

## Scanner & Observer Log

**Provides a record of**
**	****the flight**
**Preflight calculations**
**Record of observations**
**Basis for debriefing**
**Used to complete CAPF 104**
**Information is forwarded to mission staff to guide mission management**
**Good logs can be combined from several sorties to give the mission staff a better picture of how the search is going**

**Notes:**
There are many forms of log sheets.  Ask others what they use.  A log can record check points, headings, distance, speed, ETE, ETA, ATA, fuel, time, observations, conditions.
Can be purchased from the CAP Supply Depot (Scanner/Observer Log)

## Primary Responsibility during searches: Visual Search
Report for briefings
Assist in planning – may be mission commander
Check necessary equipment aboard (checklists)
Assist in avoiding obstacles during taxiing
Assist in setting up and operating radios
Assist in setting up and operating nav equipment
Maintain situational awareness
Assist in monitoring fuel status

**Report for briefings**
**Assist in planning – may be mission commander**
**Check necessary equipment aboard (checklists)**
**Assist in avoiding obstacles during taxiing**
**Assist in setting up and operating radios**
**Assist in setting up and operating nav equipment**
**Maintain situational awareness**
**Assist in monitoring fuel status**

**Observer Duties & Responsibilities**

**Notes:**
1.2
Objective 1.2 – Demonstrate knowledge of mission observer duties and responsibilities
This slide shows the added responsibilities of the observer, for comparison.  May be skipped if Scanner is being taught as a stand-alone course.

## Observer Duties & Responsibilities(continued)

**Assist enforcing the sterile cockpit rules**
**Assist pilot during searches, particularly ELT**
**Keep mission base/high bird apprised of status**
**Coordinate scanner assignments, schedule breaks, monitor crew for fatigue & dehydration**
**Maintain observer’s log**
**Report for debriefing**
**Assist with ****all**** post-mission paperwork **
**Keep track of assigned equipment and supplies**

**Notes:**
1.1
Objective 1.2 – Demonstrate knowledge of mission observer duties and responsibilities

## Primary Responsibility: Pilot the aircraft in a safe and proficient manner, following all CAP and FAA rules and regulations.
Second: Remember that you are a pilot, not a scanner.
In addition to these duties, the pilot must perform all the duties of the observer if no qualified observer is on board.

**Second: Remember that you are a pilot, *****not***** a scanner.**
**In addition to these duties, the pilot must perform all the duties of the observer if no qualified observer is on board.**

**MP Duties & Responsibilities**

## In addition to the duties of Pilot-in-Command:
Responsible for obtaining complete briefings and for planning sorties
Thoroughly brief the aircrew before flight, including a briefing on their responsibilities during all phases of the upcoming flight
Obtain a proper flight release
Enforce sterile cockpit rules
Utilize CRM techniques and procedures

**Responsible for obtaining complete briefings and for planning sorties**
**Thoroughly brief the aircrew before flight, including a briefing on their responsibilities during all phases of the upcoming flight**
**Obtain a proper flight release**
**Enforce sterile cockpit rules**
**Utilize CRM techniques and procedures**

**MP Duties & Responsibilities**

## Fly search patterns as completely and precisely as possible; report any deviations from the prescribed patterns during debriefing.
Monitor the observer and ensure all events, sightings and reports are recorded and reported.
Fill out all forms accurately, completely and legibly.

**Monitor the observer and ensure all events, sightings and reports are recorded and reported.**
**Fill out all forms accurately, completely and legibly.**

**MP Duties & Responsibilities**

## CAP Missions

**Aerospace Education**
**Cadet Program**
**Emergency Services**
**Civil Defense / Wartime**
**Disaster Relief**
**Search and Rescue**
**Emergency Communications**
**National Security**

**Notes:**
1.4
Objective 1.3 – Discuss CAP missions.

## CAP Civil Defense/Wartime Missions

**CAP OPLAN 1000**
**Provide emergency communications network**
**Provide damage assessment**
**Support state and regional disaster airlift (SARDA)**
**Provide radiological monitoring and decontamination teams**
**Airlift of high priority resources**
**Security Control of Air Traffic and Air Navigation Aids (SCATANA) Plan**

**Notes:**
SCATANA is control and limit use of navigational aids and air space, during a defense emergency.  Hearing SCATANA is in effect means land at suitable airfield and file an IFR plan.  
Missions are defined by MOU or MOA at State Wing level.

## CAP Peacetime Missions

**Some missions may differ depending upon each CAP Wing**
**Peacetime disaster relief as a component of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue program**
**Damage Assessment, Communications, Transportation**
**Search and Rescue (SAR)**
**USAF is SAR coordinator**
**AFRCC implements national search and rescue plan**
**CAP conducts 4 out of 5 searches**
**Counterdrug Operations (CD)**
**Support is limited to: reconnaissance, transportation and communications**
**US Customs, DEA, US Forest Service and others**

## Peacetime Missions (con’t)

**Homeland Security**
**TBD**
**Partner Agencies**
**Red Cross**
**Salvation Army**
**Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)**
**Department of the Interior (DOI)**
**Federal Highway Administration (FHA)**
**Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)**
**National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)**
**U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)**

## Liability

**Federal Employee Compensation Act (FECA)**
**Worker’s compensation**
**Injured or killed on Air Force-assigned missions**
**Commercial insurance for corporate missions**
**Coverage varies depending on the type of mission**
**Know your coverage for the missions you are on**

**Notes:**
1.5
Objective 1.4 – Discuss liability coverage and applicability.

## Liability (con’t)

**Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA)**
**Liability protection**
**CAP members acting within the scope of their duties on CAP operational missions**
**Air Force assigned missions (including 911T)**
**CAP corporate missions**
**CAPR 900-5, CAP Insurance/Benefits Program**

## Liability (con’t)

**Wing and Region Commanders may assess CAP members for the cost of repairs due to damage to CAP Aircraft (CAPR 60-1):**
**Negligence – up to $500**
**Gross negligence – up to $5,000**
**Willful or intentional misconduct – beyond $5,000**
**CAP corporate missions**
**CAPR 62-2, Mishap Reporting**
**CAPF 78, Mishap Report Form**
**Avionics lock**

## Operational Agreements

**National, regional and state levels**
**In accordance with CAPR 60-3**
**Formalized through agencies chain of commands**
**Facilitates OPLAN implementation**
**Agreements are approved and signed at all levels**
**Contents**
**Limitations**
**Reimbursements**
**Liability**

## Forms

**OPLANS and CONPLAN’s – contingency actions**
**Regulations – supervise and direct**
**-- ****MOUs and Agreements – facilitate understanding**
**---- ****Forms – facilitate implementation and recording**

## Forms

**CAPF 9**
**CAPF 101**
**SQTR**
**Specialty Qualification Training Record **
**Formerly CAPF 101T**
**CAPF 104**
**CAPF 108**

## Forms 104 and 108

**CAPF 104 Mission Flight Plan / Briefing / Debriefing Form**
**CAPR 60-3 Requirement**
**Completed for each mission sortie**
**Clear and legible**
**CAPF 108 CAP Payment / Reimbursement Document for Aviation / Automotive / Miscellaneous Expenses**
**CAPR 173-3**
**Use current form  (Previous editions are obsolete)**
**Completed for each mission**
**File within 30 days after mission completion**
**Complete, accurate and legible**

## CAPF 104Mission Briefing/Debriefing(Front)

**Notes:**
Covered in detail in Chapter 13, Step Through a Typical  Mission

## CAPF 104(Reverse)

**Notes:**
Covered in detail in Chapter 13, Step Through a Typical Mission

## FAA Flight Plan

**FAA Form 7233-1**

**CPF 4239**

**N99545, CAP Flight**

**Notes:**
CAPR 60-1 2-1.g requires this be filed for any cross-country flight over 50 NM except where CAPF 104 or CAPF 84 flight plan forms are used.
Filed with FAA to record your intended flight and will start a search if you don’t arrive/return.
Observer may need to fill this out for some non-mission sorties.
BE SURE TO CLOSE YOUR FLIGHT PLAN WITH FAA.

## Flight Plans and Forms Summary

**Forms are important!**
**Complete, accurate and legible**
**Label attachments**
*** ******You*****  implement the CAP mission**
**Know the source regulations**
**CAPR 60-1 (flying operations)**
**CAPR 60-3**
**MOUs**

**Notes:**
The job’s not done until the paperwork is complete.

## Records for your Aircrew File(Optional but Recommended)

**Current CAP Membership card**
**Current CAP 101 card**
**Current CPR, Basic Care, Bloodborne Pathogens cards**
**CAP Communications certificate (CAPF 76, if held)**
**Award of Aeronautical Rating (CAPF 2a)**
**Emergency Notification Data (CAPF 60)**
**Total Scanner/Observer hours (photocopy from your  logbook)**

**Notes:**
Highly recommended

## CAP Forms 104 and 108

**CAPF 104 Mission Flight Plan / Briefing / Debriefing Form**
**Completed for each mission sortie**
**Complete and legible**
**CAPF 108 CAP Payment / Reimbursement Document for Aviation / Automotive / Miscellaneous Expenses**
**CAPR 173-3**
**Use current form  (previous editions are obsolete)**
**Completed for each mission**
**File within 30 days after mission completion**
**Complete and legible**

**Notes:**
Scanner/Observer information is transferred to the back of the CAPF 104 for debriefing / recording.

## Entering Data onto Forms

**Data must be accurate and legible**
**Print, or have another crewmember fill out the form.**
**Electronic**
**General rules:**
**Corrections: line through and initial (no “Liquid Paper”)**
**No signature labels or stamped signatures**
**Attachments: Name, Date, Mission & Sortie number, ‘N’ Number, Hobbs time**
**Review the form.  Make sure blanks or “N/A” are intentional.**

**Notes:**
1.7.1
Objective 1.5 – List the general rules for entering data into forms.

## Remember to check the credentials of non-CAP passengers (center)

## Summary

**Wartime or peacetime tasking**
**Plans, MOU’s, agreements and regulations**
**Forms: Complete, accurate and *****legible***
*** ******You*****  implement the CAP mission**
**Know the source regulations**
**CAPR 60-1 (flying operations)**
**CAPR 60-3**
**MOUs**

**Notes:**
There are MOU’s between each CAP Wing and State and Local agencies that define responsibilities, etc.

## QUESTIONS?