Chapter Five Flight Procedures

CHAPTER FIVE

FLIGHT PROCEDURES

500.

INTRODUCTION - CONTACT FLIGHT TERMINOLOGY

240 KIAS / Clean

FAST CRUISE

Power as required (~80%)

200 KIAS / Clean

NORMAL CRUISE

Power as required (~54%)

150 KIAS/Clean

SLOW CRUISE

Power as required (~33%)

180 KIAS / Clean

NORMAL CLIMB

Max Power, 100% (8 Nose High)

200 KIAS / Clean

EN ROUTE DESCENT

Power 20% (Pitch 5 Nose Low)

120 KIAS / Gear Down, Flaps Up

DOWNWIND CONFIGURATION, or

Power as required (~31%) / 4 Nose High

NO-FLAP APPROACH CONFIGURATION

115 KIAS / Gear Down, Flaps TO

TAKEOFF FLAP APPROACH

Power as required (~34%) / 3 Nose High

CONFIGURATION

LANDING FLAP APPROACH

110 KIAS / Gear Down, Flaps LDG

CONFIGURATION

Power as required (~50%) / 1 Nose High

NOTE

Power settings are approximate and will vary with aircraft weight,

altitude, etc. Make corrections as needed. Throughout this

manual, when mandated by procedure to establish a specific power

setting (as in the Approach Turn Stall (15%), for example), setting

power within +3% is acceptable. The only exception is for

procedures that mandate a 4 to 6 percent power setting to simulate

the feathered condition.

501.

AREA ORIENTATION

Study well the airspace where you will be operating, specifically Area 1 of Alert Area 292 and

the individual areas within the Pensacola South Military Operating Area (MOA). Understand the

geographic boundaries and the operating altitudes. For all of your contact flights, you are

expected to remain within the horizontal and vertical boundaries of your assigned area, even if

that means modifying maneuver procedures to do so. For example, if during the long and

straight level speed change maneuver, you find yourself at an area border, executing a 180 turn

to keep from crossing the area boundary is not only acceptable, but expected.

FLIGHT PROCEDURES

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