Flight safety crew roles and qualifications.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 14

(a) A flight safety crew must operate the flight safety system hardware. A flight safety crew must document each flight safety crew position description and maintain documentation on individual crew qualifications, including education, experience, and training as part of the personnel certification program required by § 417.105. (b) A flight safety crew must be able to demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to operate the flight safety system hardware in accordance with § 417.113. (1) A flight safety crew must have knowledge of: (i) All flight safety system assets and responsibilities, including: (A) Communications systems and launch operations procedures; (B) Both voice and data systems; (C) Graphical data systems; (D) Tracking; and (E) Telemetry real time data; (ii) Flight termination systems; and (iii) Contingency operations, including hold, recycle and abort procedures. (2) An individual who monitors vehicle performance and performs flight termination must have knowledge of and be capable of resolving malfunctions in: (i) The application of safety support systems such as position tracking sources; (ii) Digital computers; (iii) Displays; (iv) Command destruct; (v) Communications; (vi) Telemetry; (vii) All electrical functions of a flight termination system; (viii) The principles of radio frequency transmission and attenuation; (ix) The behavior of ballistic and aerodynamic vehicles in flight under the influence of aerodynamic forces; and (x) The applicatio

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 14:§ 417.311