Aircraft Commander's Crew Brief

AIRCRAFT COMMANDER' CREW BRIEFING

1. Mission purpose (Training?)

2. Itinerary/Sequence of events (destination/duration)

3. Weather (Nav radar)

4. Call sign and formation position (if applicable)

5. Times:-Radio check-in

-Stations time

-Takeoff (early off authorization required?)

-TOT (does loadmaster have the times)

6. Fuel requirements (assault landings?)

-Total Fuel

-Recovery Fuel

-Type of Landings Planned

7. Load and drop sequence

-What is the Load and Sequence

-Is the load Jettisonable/hazardous

-Nav Marks the loads

-JAI done on load? (DOD form 1748)

8. Intelligence updates (EPA briefed if required)

9. Interphone and radio discipline

-Keep Interphone Clear Below 10,000ft

-Clear/Concise on the Radio

-Listen for Callsign if Pilots Miss it

10. Emergency Procedures (Aircraft & Airdrop)

-Evacuation of Aircraft (looking for __ individuals, load get O2/Chocks

-Simulated EP’s--”simulated”

-Airdrop EP’s (loadmaster/cockpit duties)

-Abort Calls (Nav-Interplane, CoPilot-ATC)

11. Passenger/cargo load (Form F signed?)

12. Maintenance status (exceptional release signed?)

13. Personal equipment (rings/scarfs/etc.)

14. Crew coordination (Co-pilot/Engineer engine shutdown plan)

-No Secrets/Crew Concept (Back each other up)

-2 challenge rule

-Time-out (inside the aircraft)/Knock-it-off (formation)

-Copilot & Engineer Coordination for Shutdown

-Preslowdown Times/Will doors be open below 800 AGL?

-Engineer call 7,8,9 on run-ups/No Reject calls on Touch and Go’s

-Eng; IFF all day

-Copilot – Stop mode (most conservative response)

15. Notes/Unit Requirements

-AMC/Group/Squadron Special Interest Items

-Questions and comments from each crew member

PREFLIGHT GUIDE

DAY PRIOR TO FLIGHT

1. Orders (Flight/TDY/NATO)

2. Foreign Clearance Guide

3. Diplomatic Clearance

4. Customs/Agriculture/Immigration requirements

5. Airport qualification briefing

DAY OF FLIGHT

1. FCIF/FCB

2. Mission kit

3. Navigation kit

4. Aircrew equipment:-Uniforms

-ID tags

-Helmet/mask (HALO?)

-Required publications (new pubs out?)

-Tool kits/airdrop kits

-Field equipment/artic equipment/rations

-Weapons (required?)

-Passports/visas

-Shot records

5. Hazardous cargo briefing (AFR 71-4/AMCR 55-18, Vol 1)

6. Buffer zone/safe passage briefing

7. Intelligence/threat/EW briefing

8. Fleet service/lunches/pax comfort kits

9. Authenticators/IFF/Mode IV/Have Quick/ Secrets

BASE OPS

1. NOTAMS

2. Weather

3. Flight plan filed

4. Secrets ????

AT THE AIRCRAFT

1. Fuel/MX status

2. Secure Radios/Have Quick

3. DD Form 365-4 (Form-F)/Manifest

4. Emergency/survival equipment:-Parachutes (55-130)

-LPU's

-Liferafts

-Survival equipment 

-Vests/flak jackets

-Chemical protective gear