NATOPS GENERAL FLIGHT AND OPERATING …

1 NATOPS GENERAL FLIGHT ANDOPERATING instructions manual 05 MAY 2016 CNAF OF THE NAVYCOMMANDER, NAVAL AIR FORCESCNAF 2 ORIGINALCNAF (4 blank)Reproduction for nonmilitary use of the information or illustrations contained in this publication is notpermitted without specific approval of the issuing service (CNO).LIST OF EFFECTIVE PAGESTOTAL NUMBER OF PAGES IN THIS PUBLICATION IS 434, CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING:Page No. Change1 (Reverse Blank) (Reverse Blank) (Reverse Blank) (Reverse Blank) thru 45 (Reverse Blank) thru 1-5 (Reverse Blank) thru thru thru 4-13 (Reverse Blank) thru thru 6-5 (Reverse Blank) thru 7-7 (Reverse Blank) thru thru 9-3 (Reverse Blank) thru thru 11-17 (Reverse Blank) thru 12-15 (Reverse Blank) thru thru 14-29 (Reverse Blank) thru thru thru thru D-23 (Reverse Blank) thru thru F-5 (Reverse Blank) thru G-3 (Reverse Blank) thru (Reverse Blank) thru thru K-7 (Reverse Blank) thru L-3 (Reverse Blank) thru thru N-7 (Reverse Blank) thru Index-33 (Reverse Blank) (6 blank)INTERIM CHANGE SUMMARYThe following Interim Changes have been cancelled or previously incorporated into this (S)REMARKS/PURPOSE1 thru 38 Previously incorporated or following Interim Changes have been incorporated into this (S)

2 REMARKS/PURPOSE39 Multi-Subject Revisions, Including Approved Simulator Additions to Appendix K40 UAS Policies and Operations41 Appdx K Simulators, Life Preservers, and Waivers to Min Flt Hrs42 Aeromedical and Swim/Physical Requirements43 Closed Tower Ops, Weather Briefing, Parachute Warning, and Misc H-60 Simulators44 Multi-Subject45P-8A Training Classification46 Appendix K, AFAO, and Pub Reference Updates47 FLIGHT Approval Authority and Misc. ItemsInterim Changes Outstanding To be maintained by the custodian of this (or DATE/TIME GROUP)PAGESAFFECTEDREMARKS/PURPOSECNAF (8 blank)RECORD OF CHANGESR ecord entry and page count verification for each printed change and erratum:Change No. andDate of ChangeDate ofEntryPage Count Verified by(Signature)CNAF GENERAL FLIGHT and OPERATING 1 INTRODUCTION and of NATOPS Change of To Obtain OF OPERATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT GOVERNING SOURCES OF Flying Rules and Aviation Regulations (FAR) FLIGHT Information Publications (FLIPs) (NOTAL) and Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs) (NOTAL) Order JO (Air Traffic Control) (NOTAL) Air Traffic Control manual (NAVAIR 00-80T-114) Detail Specification for NATOPS Program Technical Publications and Products.

3 Style, Format, and Common Technical Content, MIL-DTL-85025B(AS) OF , CAUTIONS, AND 2 NAVAL AIR TRAINING AND OPERATING PROCEDURES STANDARDIZATION PROGRAM Program Administrative PRODUCTS AND NATOPS Products and Manuals and Associated of NATOPS to NATOPS , UPDATING AND CANCELLING NATOPS a New an Existing a of NATOPS Change of NATOPS Change Change Change and Distribution of Interim REVIEW Support of NATOPS of NATOPS Production of Approved Agenda EVALUATION NATOPS NATOPS 3 POLICY CONCERNING USE OF Authorized To Pilot Naval Authorized To Taxi Naval Authorized To Perform Crew Duties in Naval Authorized as Project CONCERNING USE OF of Eligible Participants for Orientation FLIGHT OF DEMONSTRATIONS AND STATIC Aircraft FLIGHT Live Weapons OF NAVAL AVIATORS BY CIVILIAN in RESOURCE Behavioral CRM Process AND RECORDING OF DEVIATIONS AND VIOLATIONS OF FLYINGREGULATIONS AND MISHAP of Investigations of Violations of Flying Reports and of Flying Regulations Other Than Offshore Air Defense Identification Zone

4 Personnel Training/Qualification Jacket Entry/Aviators FLIGHT Log Book INSTRUMENT Civil Than to FLIGHT OPERATIONS QUALITY ASSURANCE (MFOQA) of MFOQA AVIATION SAFETY AWARENESS PROGRAM (ASAP) Data AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS (PAO) VERSUS CIVIL AIRCRAFT 4 FLIGHT AUTHORIZATION, PLANNING, AND FLIGHTCREW Commander NATOPS Not Requiring a of Helicopters OPERATING Over Airfields for Stop-and-Go, Refueling and Airfields and Landing Areas For , Tiltrotor, and VSTOL/STOL Landing Operations Outside Published Hours/Closed Control Tower Airfield FLIGHT Plans to ARTCC/ FLIGHT Service Station (FSS) Communication User Access Terminal Service (DUAT) Plan and Ship-to-Shore Flights Within the Contiguous United OF THE FLIGHT in Command/Formation FLIGHT Plan PLAN PREFLIGHT Sign Route Weather Criteria for Fuel and Balance OF FLIGHT 5 FLIGHT FLIGHT Between Single and Formations of Maneuvers Within Class B, C, or D Use Training Routes (MTRs) Over the High FLIGHT Air Combat Maneuvering (ACM)

5 Training Instrument FLIGHT RULES With and Conditions Precluding VFR FLIGHT RULES AND POSITIVE CONTROL Equipment Approaches and Landing Operations in Class B, C, or D Terrain FLIGHT Night Hover Operation Over FLIGHT -RELATED to Civilians and Endangering Private of of of Commercial Carriers and Aircraft of Civil of Installations Important to Missile Training of Airborne Stores Through Extensive Cloud Flameout Flameout OPERATIONS WITH NIGHT VISION 6 AIR TRAFFIC TRAFFIC CONTROL of Formation of VIP Same Runway for Checking Wheels Down and Braking Action Advisory/Condition OF MILITARY of VEHICLE Vehicle Operators Course (AVOC) 7 , Turning, and and Landing Malfunctions on Multiengine and and and Control Products in BELTS AND SHOULDER PERFORMANCE OF 8 AEROMEDICAL AND LIFE SUPPORT Personal Protective Equipment , Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Defense (CBRND) Protective PERFORMANCE AND AEROMEDICAL QUALIFICATIONS FOR FLIGHT AND FLIGHT Affecting Aircrew Maintenance During Continuous and Sustained AVIATION SURVIVAL TRAINING and Training Prerequisites for Participation in NASTP Waivers/Qualification AIR INTRODUCTION/LIAISON OF SURVIVAL AIRCREW FLIGHTEQUIPMENT (FAILSAFE) TRAINING AND RESCUE PILOT/RESCUE SWIMMER PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS AND of of Aircrew Found Not Physically Qualified (NPQ)

6 Service Requirements for Contract Civilians OPERATING Naval 9 Release Aviation OF AIRCRAFT AWAY FROM FUEL NOISE FOR PERSONAL PROPERTY IN MARITIME DISASTERS OF CUSTOMS, HEALTH, IMMIGRATION, AND AGRICULTURAL Aircraft Arriving in the Continental From of Military or Economic Insect OF TAIL LETTERS AND SIDE 10 FLIGHT RECORDS, REPORTS, AND FLIGHT RECORD INSPECTION AND ACCEPTANCE (AIA) RECORD, OPNAV 4790 in Limitations/Remarks AIRCRAFT FLIGHT RECORD, OPNAV 3710 of the Naval Aircraft FLIGHT Data Data Data Proficiency Data Exchange Program/DCMA/Any Aeronautically Designated Personnel Assigned to an Activity Where NDCSC Support Is Not Crewmembers Flying Naval Aircraft (Active) Readiness OF COMPLETED FLIGHT TIME (OPNAV 3760/37) FLIGHT for Maintaining Master FLIGHT FLIGHT File of Master FLIGHT FLIGHT LOG BOOK, OPNAV 3760 FLIGHT PERSONNEL TRAINING/QUALIFICATION JACKET, OPNAV3760 INDIVIDUAL FLIGHT ACTIVITY REPORT (NAVFLIRS-3) FLIGHT ACTIVITY REPORTING SYSTEM (IFARS) 11 GENERAL instructions ON DUTY INVOLVING FLYING AND ANNUAL FLIGHT PERFORMANCE , PURPOSE, AND Officer Flying Qualified Foreign Area Officer (AFAO) Operations Officer (AVOPS) Flying Qualification/Currency Requirements Activity Governing Assignment of Inactive Reserve CAREER INCENTIVE and Career Incentive Pay for Rated Members (Rated Members Include Aeronautically Designated Naval Aviators and Naval FLIGHT Officers)

7 Corps Duty Incentive Pay for Enlisted Member/Aeronautically Designated Enlisted and Nondesignated OF MINIMUM FLYING to of Other Than Permanently Designated Aeronautical GOVERNING LOGGING, REPORTING, AND USE OF SIMULATOR Governing Flying Time Governing NATOPS Evaluation FLIGHT AND COMMAND OF ORDERS TO DUTY INVOLVING 12 CLASSIFICATION AND QUALIFICATION OF FLIGHT FIXED-WING AIRCRAFT (PILOT) Requirements for Requirements for ROTARY-WING AIRCRAFT (PILOT) Requirements for Requirements for TILTROTOR AIRCRAFT (PILOT) Requirements for FLIGHT FLIGHT Officer Requirements for Requirements for AERIAL NAVIGATION OF UAS OF ENLISTED FLIGHT of Enlisted FLIGHT of Temporary FLIGHT AND QUALIFICATION OF NAVAL Aircrewman Requirements for Positional Qualification as a Naval Time Limit for Positional Qualification as Naval of Requalification for Naval Waivers for Naval Replacement for Qualifying TO TRANSITION INTO JET, HELICOPTER, OR Training Syllabus of Naval Air Training FLIGHT Corps FLIGHT of 13 INSTRUMENT RATINGS AND RATINGS AND FLIGHT Officers Required To Maintain Instrument of Instrument Ratings and and Functions of Instrument FLIGHT FOR INSTRUMENT To Meet RATING NAVIGATION Navigation FLIGHT 14 UAS POLICIES AND AND.

8 Procedures and Terminology Applicable to UAS Reporting Procedures For UAS FLIGHT Aviation Regulations (FAR) UAS-Specific of Authorization (COAs) with UAS-Related of UAS of Record (POR) NATOPS Qualification (BUQ) NATOPS Program GUIDANCE FOR USE OF UASs .. for the Domestic Use of OPERATING and Command of UAS Responsibilities During Checkflights (FCFs) AUTHORIZATION AND for FLIGHT Flightcrew Control Preflight Essential Subsystem Matrix (MESM) and Propulsion Battery Charge Preflight FLIGHT VFR IFR Airport OPERATING TRAFFIC of , Turning, and Physical Examinations and Performance and Aeromedical Qualifications For FLIGHT and FLIGHT Support RECORDS, REPORTS AND FLIGHT Record Subsystem (NAVFLIRS) Records for UAS Groups 1 and 3 to 5 UAS FLIGHT instructions ON DUTY INVOLVING FLYING AND ANNUAL FLIGHT PERFORMANCE UAS While in a Leave CLASSIFICATIONS AND DESIGNATION OF UAS FLIGHT AND MAINTENANCE UAS Qualification (BUQ)

9 Requirements for Requirements for To of INSTRUMENT For UAS Instrument Instrument Rating Annual Qualification Rating Qualification For UAS Instrument Instrument Rating Renewal To Meet Renewal of Instrument A NATOPS FLIGHT PERSONNEL TRAINING/QUALIFICATION AND and B AIRCRAFT VISUAL IDENTIFICATION Side of C DIRECTIVES LISTED AS REFERENCES IN THIS TO Referenced in this for the Above D TOTAL MISSION REQUIREMENT (TMR) AIRCRAFT/SIMULATOR FLIGHT CLASSIFICATION OF THE TOTAL MISSION REQUIREMENT OF TOTAL MISSION REQUIREMENT of PURPOSE OF FLIGHT CODE COMBINATIONS A THROUGH I (TRAINING FLIGHTS) Purpose Purpose PURPOSE OF FLIGHT CODE COMBINATIONS J THROUGH R (SERVICE FLIGHTS) To Be Used With GPCs J and K for Service L, M, N, and O for Service Used With GPC Used With GPC Used With GPC PURPOSE OF FLIGHT CODE COMBINATIONS S THROUGH Z (COMBAT FLIGHTS) ASSIGNED TOTAL MISSION REQUIREMENT E NAVAL AVIATION SURVIVAL TRAINING PROGRAM (NASTP) TRAINING STATUS (DOES NOT INCLUDE NON-AIRCRAFT SPECIFICNASTP TRAINING COURSES LISTED IN FIGURE E-1).

10 TRAINING CURRICULA NASTP TRAINING SITES (AVIATION SURVIVAL TRAINING CENTERS (ASTC)) ADJUNCTIVE TRAINING TOPIC TRAINING QUALIFICATION LETTER FOR AIRCRAFT SPECIFIC F EXCEPTION, SPECIAL QUALIFICATION, SERVICE, LANDING, AND APPROACH QUALIFICATION G TIME ZONE, SYSTEM STATUS, PASSENGER PRIORITY, AND OPPORTUNE CARGO ZONE STATUS PRIORITY CARGO H WEAPONS PROFICIENCY DELIVERY DATA System/Automatic Delivery Delivery DATA RECORD I SUPPORT J USMC PERSONAL DATA SYLLABUS AND STATUS ASSIGNED SYLLABUS (TEC) SYLLABUS STATUS (SSC) AIRCREW STATUS (ASC) K COMNAVAIRFOR APPROVED IFAR OF NEW SIMULATORS (PILOT AND NFO SPECIAL CREW TIME) SIMULATORS (SPECIAL CREW TIME ONLY) SIMULATORS (PILOT AND SPECIAL CREW TIME) L LIST OF FORMS AND M STANDARDIZED ACM TRAINING RULES BRIEFING TRAINING N BUQ LEVELS I IV.