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Aircraft Handling Officer: Also known as the aircraft handler (or just “Handler”), the ACHO is responsible for arrangement of aircraft about the flight and hangar decks. The handler is charged with avoiding a “locked deck,” where there are too many misplaced aircraft such that no more can land prior to a rearrangement. The handler works in Flight Deck Control, where scale model aircraft on a flight deck representation are used to represent actual aircraft status on the flight deck.
Aircraft directors: As their name implies, are responsible for directing all aircraft movement on the hangar and flight decks. They are enlisted Aviation Boatswain’s Mates. They are colloquially known as “Bears” and those who work in the hangar go by the term “Hangar Rat”. On some carriers, commissioned officers known as flight deck officers also serve as aircraft directors.
During flight operations or during a flight deck “re-spot”, there are typically about 12-15 “Yellowshirts” on the flight deck, and they report directly to the “Handler”. Although aircraft “Directors” are often used at airports ashore, their function is particularly crucial in the confined flight deck environment where aircraft are routinely taxied within inches of one another, often with the ship rolling and pitching beneath. Directors wear yellow and use a complex set of hand signals (lighted yellow wands at night) to direct aircraft.
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