The White Falcon - 19.03.1971, Blaðsíða 7

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THE WHITE FALCON
March 19, 1971
AMH3 Kenneth V. Minor lowers pickup hoist on one of
the SAR helicopters.
when flying to Keflavik.
A few miles off the agreed area is still
another aid to pilots landing at Keflavik
known as the KF Beacon. Because of its
sound engineering, seldom is there any
trouble with it.
Operations Maintenance Division is an
internal part of Air Operations. It con-
sists of three officers and 70 enlisted
men. They have two main functions: 1.
to support and maintain all station air-
craft; 2. to keep their search and air
rescue division in an operating status at
all times.
In addition to maintaining station air-
craft, any plane (military or civilian)
that lands at the NATO base with a mal-
function and is reported to operations,
OMD will then attend to the needs of that
aircraft. After work is done, one of the
quality assurance divisions inspectors
will go over the work to make a safety
check.
The Search and Air Rescue (SAR) divi-
sion consists of two helicopters. There
are enough men to operate these helicop-
ters at any time in case of emergency.
They cover an area of 250miles for downed
planes or anyone in distress.
The Air Traffic Control Division con-
sists of Air Traffic Control (ATC) and
Ground Control Approach (GCA). Both are
concerned in getting the plane ot and
from the NATO base in the safest manner
possible.
Some of the basic duties of the men
of flight clearance are to maintain re-
cords, post information and process flight
plans that are pertinent to local and in-
ternational flights. Broken down further
this includes, maintaining a stock of
over 200 aeronautical charts and pubs
that consistently require revision, as-
sisting pilots in filing flight plans for
correctness and completeness before pre-
senting it to the operations duty officer
for his approval, coordination with USAF
activities in Germany and McGuire that
are concerned with the movement of Mili-
(See AIR OPS, Page 9)
AMS3 Timothy D. Piske and AMHAN Leslie C.Brown pre-
pare to remove plane!s wing because of wind damage.