Propeller Aircraft Performance Requirements.pdf

Propeller Aircraft Performance Requirements

1. Description of Service Requirements. The Department of the Navy (DoN) requires contractor owned and contractor operated (COCO) propeller aircraft to provide Fleet and program customers with a variety of airborne threat simulation capabilities to train shipboard and airborne personnel. This support includes venues from basic air intercept control (AIC) training for single units up to large, multinational exercises. Operating locations include multiple sites in the continental United States (CONUS) and outside the continental United States (OCONUS).

Aircraft will operate from designated government bases or contractor locations on the East Coast and West Coasts. Other customers of contracted air services under this contract may include

Department of Defense (DoD) agencies, non-DoD government agencies, and Foreign Military

Sales (FMS).

a. The contract shall provide 550 flight hours per year and a minimum of four propeller aircraft for simultaneous presentations, normally two aircraft on the West Coast and two aircraft on the East Coast. Each aircraft shall meet performance specifications as listed in enclosure (1).

b. To service operations, East Coast aircraft should operate in vicinity of N 33° 30.0’ W

077° 30.0’ and West Coast aircraft in vicinity of N31° 55.0’ W119’ 30.0’.The contractor shall maintain a complete set of wiring and schematic diagrams covering all equipment installed onboard the aircraft. This information shall be available at the home base, operating sites and available to the government for inspection and use.

c. The contractor must be able to store and operate communications security (COMSEC) equipment.

d. Typical flight profiles will include extended flight and loitering up to three hours as far as

100 nautical miles (NM) off-shore and operating between 500 and 15,000 feet mean sea level

(MSL) during daylight hours or between 1,000 and 15,000 feet MSL at night. Typical mission speed, straight-and-level, will be between 120 and 170 knots. The contractor shall provide services for:

(1) Flights under positive control with pilot responding to vectors and instructions by

Navy controllers as designated by the scheduling officer (SO).

(2) Flights with indirect control or independent un-vectored flight executed in accordance with pre-briefed, scenario-driven presentations.

(3) Escort of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) will require extended flight profiles for escort as slow as 120 knots and in vicinity of UAS.

e. Typical missions will include:

(1) Scenario presentations. Aircraft may be tasked to attempt to close on a designated ship during an exercise.

(2) Air Intercept Control (AIC) training. Aircraft may be tasked to provide shipboard radar operators training with aircraft vectoring.

(3) Range clearance. Aircraft may be tasked to observe any marine life or surface contacts in an operating area prior to or during an exercise.

(4) Communication relay. An aircraft may be tasked to provide continuous relay of a high frequency (HF) or ultra-high frequency (UHF) net to another, independent UHF net. The communication relay shall not preclude the aircraft’s ability to navigate or communicate on a third, independent UHF radio.

(5) Link interference trainer. The aircraft should be capable of hosting a GFE link interference trainer to broadcast up to 100 watts effective radiated power (ERP) on at least 17 independent Link-16 channels. The onboard link interference shall not preclude the aircraft’s ability to navigate or communicate on a third, independent UHF radio.

(6) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) emulation. Aircraft may be tasked to fly threat

UAS profiles as well as operate the COMET UAS emulator. The COMET system (GFE) includes a camera and transmitter running on aircraft power. The operator shall be: a contractor representative separate from the pilot and copilot; able to direct COMET’s camera and monitor its transmissions; and have visual access to surface units, separate from the forward cockpit.

(7) UAS escort. Aircraft may escort UAS assets to clear UAS flightpath. Escort flight profile will normally be extended low, slow flight at or above 1,000 feet MSL and 120 knots.

Propeller Aircraft Performance Requirements

Aircraft

Configuration

The means of aircraft propulsion shall be by two or more turbine propellers.

Speed / Altitude 1. Minimum sustainable airspeed of 120 knots true air speed (KTAS) at sea level (Note 1)

2. Capable of sustaining not less than 180 KTAS at all elevations between

200 and 10,000 feet Mean Sea Level (MSL) (Note 1).

3. Maximum structural cruising speed (VNO) not less than 180 knots indicated air speed (KIAS). If VNO unavailable, maximum operating limit speed

(VMO) of not less than 180 KIAS.

Note 1: At “Standard Day”, steady state, straight-and-level conditions.

Service Ceiling Not less than 15,000 feet MSL.

Turn Minimum of 2G turns, sustained, below 14,000 feet MSL.

Range 700 Nautical Miles (NM) unrefueled in visual meteorological conditions

(VMC). Time On Station Minimum 3.0 hours loiter on station assuming 50 NM from takeoff to on-station point.

Configuration /

Special Equipment

All aircraft equipped with applicable communication and navigation capability to operate in the national airspace, or foreign nation airspace, as applicable.

Except as noted below, all aircraft must be equipped and configured with:

3 x Ultra High Frequency (UHF), 2 x High Frequency (HF) antennas

2 x UHF transceivers (Note 2)

Very High Frequency (VHF) transceiver

High Frequency (HF) transceiver (Note 2)

Global Positioning System (GPS) capability

UHF-HF bidirectional relay capability, which may use the above radios

One L-band antenna (COMET UAV emulation)ne L-band antenna; to support COMET UAV emulation.

One 433 MHz antenna. Shall be located on bottom of fuselage to support

Large Area Tracking Range (LATR) pod operations.

Provisioning for the following GFE:

- Internal Large Area Tracking Range (LATR)

- COMET UHF or L-band Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) emulator

- Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) Foster 970

- Link-16 Interference Trainer (one aircraft per coast)

- PRC-158

- URC-200

Note 2: The communication relay may leverage HF and UHF radios.

Additional

Performance

Criteria

Capable of over-water operations up to 150 NM from nearest land.

Certified to fly in actual and forecast icing conditions in accordance with

Title 14 CFR 23.1419.