MODIFICATIONS OF FLIGHT EQUIPMENT

Aircrew Personal Protective Equipment Manual, NAVAIR 13-1-6.7 When you are working with personal pro- tective equipment, your best friend is the Aircrew Personal Protective Equipment Manual, NAVAIR 13-1-6.7. This manual contains com- prehensive and authoritative information on configuration, application, function, inspection, and maintenance of aircrew personal protective equipment. MODIFICATIONS OF FLIGHT EQUIPMENT Perform only authorized modifications. Un- authorized modification and deviations from the approved configuration of life support and survival equipment by individual crewmen could create unknown and possibly dangerous conditions. NAVAIRSYSCOM is the only authority for modification to life support equipment and survival equipment. Such changes are usually accomplished by the cognizant field activity (CFA) via Aircrew System Changes or a change to the equipment procurement package. The NAVAIR 13-1-6.5 also permits an operating activity, with approval of the controlling custodian, to conditionally modify ONE unit of equipment in service to correct or overcome unsatisfactory conditions in that equipment item. Any other type of deviation, peculiar configuration, or modification to life support and survival equipment is not allowed at the operating level. The squadron riggers have no authority or responsibility y to perform them. If there is a conflict between CFA documents and NATOPS requirements, or if there is a need for clarification of equipment configuration or if equipment deficiencies are discovered, the CFA should be notified. The field activity having cognizance of most of the life support and survival equipment is the Naval Air Development Center (NAVAIRDEVCEN) at Warminster, Pennsylvania. For parachutes and related hardware, including torso harness, the CFA is the Naval Weapons Center (Code 6412), China Lake, California, 93555. NADEP Pensacola has cognizance over all survival radios and URT-33 emergency beacons. TYPES OF FLIGHT CLOTHING The flight clothing covered in this chapter is designated to be worn by aircrew members as outer garments while on flight operations in aircraft. As a squadron aircrew survival equip- mentman, you maybe asked to sew on squadron patches, name tags, and rate insignias. These items are authorized to be worn on flight clothing as directed by the local command. However, the total surface area of all patches (name tag excluded) may not exceed 50 square inches, and no one patch may be bigger than 4 inches in any given direction. SUMMER FLYER’S COVERALL CWU-27/P AND BLUE FLYER’S COVERALL CWU-73/P The CWU-27/P summer flyer’s coverall and the CWU-73/P blue flyer’s coverall (fig. 4-1) are Figure 4-1.-Summer flyer’s coverall, CWU-27/P and blue flyer’s CWU-73/P. 4-3