Alarms and Monitoring
This colour indicates an Automatic Fire Alarm has activated
What is Red?
Following a crash alarm or alert, the FCC Operator firstly broadcasts this word twice
Attention, attention
When SwitchPlus is unavailable, operational records may be entered into this alternative log.
What is the Airways Operations Journal (AOJ)?
This is the official three letter acronym for the Fire Commander in the documentation
What is the Shift OIC?
These are the four types of incident classification from Tower to the FCC.
What are information only, irregular occurence, local standby, and full emergency.
If an alarm is not acknowledged in this time, the alarm will escalate.
What is 20 seconds?
Full Emergency incidents are divided into three levels based on this factor.
What is aircraft seating capacity?
The Shift OIC reviews this at the completion of each shift.
What is the SwitchPlus Event Log?
Following major notifications, these automated lists can be activated to recall personnel.
What are Staff Recall lists?
This is the procedure that must be completed before another FCC operator can take over.
What is the HOTO (Handover/takeover?)
If an alarm escalates, it will go to this station.
What is Townsville?
A Full Emergency involving an aircraft with up to 18 seats falls into this category
What is Full Emergency Level 1?
This is the time standard used for operational logs and activities.
What is UTC?
The first person to be contacted when the crash notification is activated.
Who is the AALL?
This is the primary contact station for Chemdata
This notice form is sent to customers when alarm monitoring is affected by a communications failure.
What is ARFF-FORM-204?
This highest Full Emergency classification covers aircraft seating up to 560 passengers.
What is Full Emergency Level 3?
If it is 1000 locally, it is this time UTC.
What is 0000 UTC?
This manual provides the operational procedures for the FCC and related ARFFS communication systems.
What is AFFM-08
Along with SwitchPlus, this alarm monitoring system is installed in many ARFFS FCCs.
What is Firemon?
When the alarms panel fails, FCC Operators are instructed to contact this department
What is the Airways Service Desk?
A Full Emergency involving aircraft seating up to 215 people falls into this category.
What is Full Emergency Level 2?
When recording a member's status in the AOJ, what three items must be entered?
What are rank abbreviation, surname and On Duty/Off Duty status?
Brisbane and Melbourne are unique because they use this system as their primary alarm management platform.
What is Firemon?
This is the order of priority for communications in the FCC comprising of six items.
What is ATC direct line, Fireline, Firecom, AFA's, AFA faults, and the general line?