Flight Test Brevity

A Communications Guide

Author

Nathan Cook

Published

2023-06-02

Preface

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Purpose

This guide is intended to accelerate the communications training of flight testers. The desired end state is a flight test team who can safely, securely, effectively, and efficiently communicate with each other, whether over the radio or face-to-face.

PDF

A pdf version of this guide is available for download at https://github.com/cooknl/flight-test-brevity/blob/main/pdf/Flight-Test-Brevity.pdf

Feedback

This guide is a living document. All feedback is welcomed, and the most effective means of providing it is to create an “Issue” at https://github.com/cooknl/flight-test-brevity/issues

Change Log

  • 2023-06-02 v1.4.0
    • Section 2.3 Adds standard radio syntax
    • Appendix D Updates “test point” to “test run”, “procedure” to “maneuver”, “recovery” to “recover”
    • Appendix B Updates to Mar 2023 version of BREVITY (ATP 1-02.1 et al. 2023)
      • SICK, BOGEY, DIVERT, KNOCK-IT-OFF, TERMINATE, MARSHAL, BRAA, COLD, HOT, AZIMUTH, GROUP, MARSHALLING, STACK, MERGE, STATUS, PIG, RIFLE, SPLASH, WHAT STATE, WORKING, DROP, EYEBALL, NEGATIVE CONTACT, SOUR, CLEARED HOT, WEAPONS, VERY FAST, DECLARE, BANDIT, HOSTILE
    • Appendix A Removes “Terminate” from Flight Test Brevity, adding “CEASE TEST” to CEASE
  • 2023-06-08 v1.3.0
  • 2023-04-08 v1.2.0
    • Reorders appendices to have Flight Test Brevity Codes lead
    • Extensive re-alignment of Multi-Service Brevity Codes Applicable to Flight Test to conform with 2020 Change 1 version of BREVITY
  • 2023-04-02 v1.1.0
    • Extends appendices
      • Moves “Comm Plan” from body to appendix
      • Adds “Test Point”
      • Adds “Unsafe Comm”
    • Alters format of Flight Test Brevity Codes from tabular to paginated to improve pdf version
    • Adds pdf version
  • 2023-02-11 v.1.0.0
  • 2016-08-04 Most recent Word version