Appendix F Stand-Up Emergency Procedures Guide

APPENDIX F

STAND-UP EMERGENCY PROCEDURES GUIDE

This section will help you get up to speed before going to Air Force follow-on training. The

whole idea, of course, is to give the student exposure to the most realistic scenario possible, not

merely asking what the critical action procedures are. Knowing the procedures verbatim does

not imply an ability to apply them in a critical situation or effectively reason out a safe approach

to an EP with other factors such as weather.

All situational EPs start when you notice something amiss with the aircraft or notice a caution

light. This is the moment that the student is given the aircraft to solve the EP. This usually

happens in the flight brief before flying, but can also be given in the debrief or during a

routine/checkride ground eval. In Air Force JSUPT, the student will get this situational EP

during the morning mass brief before the flying schedule starts (at a minimum) and it will start

after the USEM* gives a scenario and then calls on a student to solve the EP. The student then

stands up in front of all his peers and IPs and solves the EP. He remains standing until the EP

has been brought to a successful conclusion or is "sat down" by the USEM for failing to come up

with a viable solution. It is then handed to another student to "stand-up" and start from where

the previous student left off. The new student has the chance to correct or change anything the

previous student had done, and then continue from that point until final solution, generally

defined as the point you have exited the aircraft and are on the ground (to include by parachute!)

There are a few common traits that all EPs have: you have got to come up with a solution,

execute it, and hopefully walk away to fly another day. To help us accomplish this, the

NATOPS (or "DASH-1" in the Air Force) manual gives us a format to logically bring an EP to a

conclusion. This format is located on the first page of section 5, the EP section of the T-34C

NATOPS, and is as follows:

Aircraft Control Maintain

Precise Nature of the problem Determine

Applicable Emergency procedures Execute

Appropriate Landing Criteria Determine and Execute

The Air Force version is similar:

Maintain aircraft control

Analyze the situation

Take appropriate action

Land as soon as conditions a permit

*USEM: Unit Stan/Eval Manager, the one who gives you the EP*

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