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air erevs and Air Traffie Control agencies. Consequently, planning vas
begun early to emphasise the necessity for a well defined and rigid flight
safety progran.
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Among the actions taken and policies established to promote the safe
and expeditious flow of air traffic were the following: (1) policies and
_ Procedures were prescribed to govern ground handling of aircraft and opers-
tion of moter vehicles in the landing and parking areas; (2) air traffic
control procedures vere developed and disseminated to all particimting
agencies; (3) those airfield obstructions which yiolated clearance cri-
teria vere properly marked and/or lightdd for night operations (4) a mission execution chart was to be prepared by the Test Aircraft Unit for
each mission to assist all personel concerned in naintaining a safe, or
derly flow of afrcreft operation from start of engines to landing; and (5)
a task group Operations Officer was to be stationed in the control tower
during mission days to coordinate with tower personnel all instructions
from the Air Operations Center.
Task Group 7.4 early began the preparation of a flying safety sur
vey check list.
This list, distributed to all Task Group 7.4 elements
possessing participating aircraft, was in question and answer form and
was designed to provide a ready guide for policies and procedures covering
all kriown aspects of flying and related ground operations in the proving
ground,
The list proved to be of immense value to the elements during
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