Naval Flight Officer Function Analysis. Commonality of Operational Functions.

During 1972, the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory NAMRL conducted a series of investigations analyzing the operational functions of the Naval Flight Officer NFO. A major part of that series involved the determination of the tasks performed by the NFO in various aircraft. For each of the NFO positions a Function Description Inventory FDI was developed. The purpose of this part of the study was to develop a compendum of functions encompassing all the duties and tasks contained in the various FDIs, to have this compendum reviewed by NFO personnel of all the respective operational squadrons and to do a cross-comparison based on these data to provide information as to which NFO communities perform the tasks and to what extent. Modified author abstract