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Increasing aircrew flight equipment personnel proficiency : insights from members of the career field / Chaitra M. Hardison [and eight others].

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hardison, Chaitra 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):
Armed Forces--Occupational specialties.
Armed Forces.
Flight crews--Training of--United States.
Flight crews.
Aircraft survival equipment.
Flight crews--Training of.
United States.
United States. Air Force--Airmen--Training of.
United States. Air Force--Occupational specialties.
United States. Air Force.
Other Title:
Increasing Aircrew Flight Equipment Personnel Proficiency
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:
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?

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