Checkride: Hornet
Individual Tasks - 1000-series - RL3
- Cold Start
- Airfield Takeoff & Landing
- Comms 1
- Decorum & Brevity
- Airfield-specific comms
- Navigation
- TACAN
- ADF
- Radials
- Bullseye
- Basic Radar & IFF
- HAFU symbology
- Target acquisition
- PRF modes
- Bars & scan azimuth
- Basic A2A Weapons
- Guns
- Fox-1
- Fox-2
- Fox-3
- Basic A2G Weapons
- Guns
- Dumb bombs
- Unguided Rockets
Mission Tasks - 2000-series - RL2
- Cold Start Scramble
- Advanced A2A Weapons
- Multi-ship operations
- Team employment techniques
- Perform actions on contact
- Advanced A2G Weapons (PGM)
- TPOD usage
- Laser-guided rockets & missiles
- JSOWs
- Harpoons
- SLAM-ER
- Anti-Radar missiles
- Comms 2: Comms on Contact
- Extra Radios (MIDS & Guard)
- Coordinating A2G
- Callouts
- Avoiding chatter
- Formation Flying
- AAR
Additional Tasks - 3000 Series - RL1
- IFR
- Airfield takeoff & landing
- AAR in inclement weather
- Comms 3
- Carrier Comms
- Carrier Ops
- Stacks & patterns
- Case I, Case III
- Night Ops
- AAR at night
- The Final Boss
- Advance NAV
- Waypoint Creation and Editing
- Flight Plan Creation
- ILS
Readiness Levels
We can assign each task a level in order to break up the syllabus into stages
Examples (h/t Gunmetal)
- 1000-series tasks: Individual tasks (cold start, takeoff, landing, file flight plan, etc.)
- 2000-series tasks: Mission tasks (multi-ship operations, , etc.)
- 3000-series tasks: Additional tasks (as generated by the unit commander)
- 4000-series tasks: Maintenance tasks (not really applicable to DCS)