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
