AVIY0051 — Conduct helicopter landing site and unprepared helicopter landing site operations

Elements & performance criteria

Performance evidence

• assessing helicopter flight performance calculations
• applying risk management principles and initiating required actions to identify, minimise, control or eliminate identified hazards
• communicating adjustments to aircraft flight profile to applicable/responsible flight crew member as required in an efficient and effective manner
• communicating, collaborating and interacting effectively with others
• completing relevant documentation
• identifying and assessing vertical, horizontal and relative spatial distances in relation to the aircraft fuselage, rotor system, mission and/or operational stores and equipment, with regard to potential obstacles to the safety of flight
• identifying and using required communications technology
• identifying hazardous and/or dangerous situations that pose risks to safety of flight and personnel
• implementing contingency plans
• interpreting and following aircraft documentation
• interpreting and following operational instructions and prioritising work
• maintaining situational awareness
• modifying activities depending on operational contingencies, risk situations and environments
• monitoring work activities in terms of planned schedule
• operating and adapting to differences in communications equipment in accordance with standard operating procedures (SOPs)
• planning own work including predicting consequences and identifying improvements
• reacting appropriately to avoid hazardous situations and/or dangerous situations that pose risks to safety of flight and personnel
• reading, interpreting and following relevant regulations, instructions, procedures, information and signs
• reporting and/or rectifying identified problems, faults or malfunctions promptly in accordance with workplace procedures
• working systematically with required attention to detail without injury to self or others, or damage to goods or equipment

Knowledge evidence

• flight performance calculations, including: aircraft configuration, aircraft weight, engine power, environmental conditions, fuel, speed
• aviation risk management processes
• helicopter positions considerations, including: aircraft lateral drift during hover sequences, altitude, heading/yaw orientation, rate of closure (relative speed), rate of descent or climb (relative speed), rate of turn related to flight obstacles
• helicopter landing site (HLS)/unprepared helicopter landing site (UHLS) operating environment, including: over land or over sea, prepared or unprepared rotary wing aircraft landing sites, urban, rural, mountainous, desert and wilderness operational environments
• operational requirements, including: emergency medical services (EMS)/search and rescue (SAR) task and mission support, fire-fighting operations, formation flight by day/night, hoisting, internal/external load lift missions, maritime support tasking, media operations, VIP and general passenger transport
• communication procedures and terminologies applicable to conduct HLS/UHLS operations
• helicopter capabilities and limitations
• helicopter dimensions
• helicopter power and performance data factors
• HLS/UHLS operational and safety procedures
• abnormal and emergency situations, including: abnormal or emergency situations related to aircraft, crew or mission factors, aircraft fuselage or rotor system obstacle strike, aircraft system malfunction or failure, bird/bat strike, degraded or loss of situational awareness, degraded/restricted visibility due to meteorological effect, ineffective crew resource management, loss of internal/external aircraft communications, loss of situational awareness, internal and external to the aircraft, personal equipment failure
• procedures for operating electronic communications equipment and required protocol
• safety hazards and obstacles, including: aircraft system malfunction and/or failure, ambient light (sun/moon position), cultural lighting, fuselage strike, HLS/UHLS area surface conditions, maritime environment, including sea state, vessels and weather, moon luminance, other aircraft, personnel within the vicinity of HLS/UHLS operations, rotor blade strike, urban environment structures, both man-made and natural edifices, rural environment elements, including man-made structures, terrain and wildlife, undetected proximity to ground obstacles, wilderness environment including vegetation, terrain and wildlife
• relevant work health and safety (WHS) and environmental protection procedures and guidelines

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