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Appendix K

Aviator Flight Records Checklist

This appendix provides an example aviator flight records checklist. It may be used as a guide for

maintaining or inspecting flight records. This checklist (Table K–1) is only a guide and may be

modified to suit the unit's needs.

Table K–1. Aviator flight records checklist

NAME:

UNIT:

1. DA Form 3513 (Individual Flight Record Folder)

a. Are there two labels on the folder?

YES

NO

b. Are the labels completed according to AR 25–400–2?

2. PART I – BIO/DEMOGRAPHIC

a. Is sheet number correct?

b. Is the Aviation Service Entry Date (ASED correct?

c. Does the duty position correctly match The Army Authorization Documents System

(TAADS) document?

d. Is block 13 properly completed to indicate that the aviator is in an operational or

nonoperational position?

3. PART IIa – FLIGHT HOURS

a. Are all the aircraft listed currently in the active Army inventory?

b. Are aircraft qualifications for the aircraft listed properly documented within the

record?

c. Are aircraft night systems qualifications properly documented?

d. Is the aviator logging the correct duty symbols for the type of duties for which

qualified?

e. Has the aviator logged flight time in aircraft not qualified in?

f. If so, is the aircraft listed in column a. as rotary–wing (RW) or fixed–wing (FW)?

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G. Do total hours flown in each aircraft match the DA Forms 759–1 posted to the
aviator=s record?

YES

NO

PART IIb – TOTAL HOURS

a. Do the historical hours (block g) match the historical hours of the previous DA Form

759?

b. Do the totals in blocks a through g match the total hours in block h?

4. PART III – ATP

a. Has the data from the previously closed out DA Form 759 been brought forward as

required in block 2?

b. If the aviator was not required to complete an annual proficiency and readiness test

(APART), was the information in blocks 9 and 10 brought forward from the previous
closeout as required?

c. Was the aviator required to complete an APART?

d. If the aviator was required to complete an APART, is the date correct?

5. PART V – REMARKS
a. Are errors found during record audit procedures properly annotated?

• Audit not conducted

b. Are aircraft qualification course completions annotated to the closeout?

c. Are DA appointments annotated to the closeout?

d. Is any aircraft accident which the aviator was involved in annotated to the

closeout?

N/A

e. Are temporary medical suspensions and lifting of those suspensions

annotated to the closeout?

f. Are medical waivers posted to the closeout?

g. Did the aviator complete the flying duty medical examination (FDME) within the last

90 days preceding the end of the aviator=s birth month?

h. If (g) is "no," did the flight surgeon grant a one–time extension of 1 month

before the end of the aviator=s birth month?

N/A

i. Was the FDME completed before the end of the extension?

j. Was flight evaluation board (FEB) action warranted?

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k. Was FEB action taken?

N/A

YES

NO

l. Did the aviator complete all aircrew training manual (ATM) task iteration

requirements?

m. If (l) is "no," did the aviator receive an extension or waiver for those

uncompleted tasks?

n. Is the mandatory remark (TC 1–210) posted to the closeout stating that the

aviator has not completed all ATP requirements and why?

N/A

o. Is this a flight activity category (FAC) 3 aviator?

p. If (o) is "yes," has the aviator completed the synthetic flight training systems (SFTS)

requirements and the Standardization Flight Evaluation?

q. Is this a nonoperational aviator?

6. MEDICAL

a. Is the aviator newly assigned to the unit?

b. If (a) is "yes," does the aviator have a Report To New Duty Station DA Form 4186

posted to the flight record?

c. Does the aviator have a valid FDME posted to the flight record?

d. Are all the blocks of the DA Form 4186 properly completed and readable?

e. Has the aviator signed the DA Form(s) 4186 as required?

f. Has the unit commander signed the DA Form(s) as required?

g. Are any medical waivers posted to the flight record?

h. Are waivers, Temporary Medical Suspensions and Return to Flight Duty DA Form(s)

4186 marked with clearly stated periods of retention as required by FM 1–300?

• No Waivers/Suspensions /Up Slips located in flight records.

i. Is the unit commander's copy of all DA Form 4186 posted to the record per AR 40–

501?

7. ORDERS

Are the following orders posted to the aviator's record?

• Flight School completion/Aviator Badge designation.

N/A

• Senior Aviator designation.

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• Master Aviator designation.

N/A

YES

NO

8. Remarks pertaining to Aviator==s Flight Record