Increasing aircrew flight equipment personnel proficiency : insights from members of the career field / Chaitra M. Hardison, Leslie Adrienne Payne, Russell H. Williams, Danielle Bean, Kenric Smith, Hannah Acheson-Field, Ivica Pavisic, Anthony Lawrence, Benjamin M. Pancoast.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardison, Chaitra M., author.

Payne, Leslie Adrienne, author.

Williams, Russell H., author.

Bean, Danielle, author.

Smith, Kenric, author.

Acheson-Field, Hannah, author.

Pavisic, Ivica, author.

Lawrence, Anthony, author.

Pancoast, Benjamin M., author.

Contributor:

Project Air Force (U.S.). Manpower, Personnel, and Training Program.

Rand Corporation.

United States. Department of the Air Force.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Air Force--Airmen--Training of.

United States.

United States. Air Force--Occupational specialties.

United States. Air Force.

Armed Forces--Occupational specialties.

Armed Forces.

Flight crews--Training of--United States.

Flight crews.

Aircraft survival equipment.

Flight crews--Training of.

Airmen.

Physical Description:

xii, 137 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, 2021.

Summary:

The Air Force Aircrew Flight Equipment (AFE) specialty-created in 2008 as a merger of two previously distinct career fields, Aircrew Life Support and Survival Equipment-plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety of aircraft pilots, other aircrew, and special warfare operators via training and by engaging in maintenance, inspection, repair, and adjustment, of aircrew flight equipment, such as flight helmets, parachutes, and safety rafts. However, despite career field and Air Combat Command (ACC) leadership attention, proficiency of airmen in this career field has generally declined. ACC/Flight Operations Division (A3T) asked RAND Project AIR FORCE to investigate the causes for the decline in AFE proficiency and develop courses of action to mitigate the issue. The effort focused on collecting and analyzing subject-matter experts' viewpoints, insights, and suggestions for addressing the proficiency issues, which were gathered from interviews with a wide range of AFE personnel from eight Air Force bases.

Contents:

Introduction

Problems in the Training Pipeline

Reducing the Number of Tasks

Cultivating Capable Leaders

Retaining and Using the Best Subject-Matter Experts

Increasing Aircrew Flight Equipment's Connection to the Mission

Where Do We Go from Here?

Appendix A: Focus Group and Task Panel Participants and Methodology

Appendix B: Task Panel Findings

Appendix C: Exploring Skill-Level Changes over Time

Appendix D: Comments on the Reserve and Guard Impacts on Proficiency

Appendix E: Improving Unit-Level Trend Analysis

Appendix F: Comparison of Number of Tasks in the Aircrew Flight Equipment Career Field to Other Maintenance Career Fields

Appendix G: Aircrew Flight Equipment Job Description and Entry Requirements

Appendix H: Key Air Force Terms and Guidance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-137).

ISBN:

9781977406750

1977406750

OCLC:

1249566097