Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com risk and a contractor pilot is pilot-in-command. When a CFR is issued, the air vehicle is believed to be safe, and that no undue risk is being taken on the part of the flight crew. the contractor's management, or the Government. 3.1.18. Critical conditions. A combination of pertinent operational parameters expected to be encountered by an aircraft, store, or combinations thereof; upon which the design or operational limits of the aircraft, stores, or portions thereof are based. 3.1 .I 9. Degrade: Any decomposition to a system that prevents or causes it to not perform in its intended manner. 3.1.20. Dispense.
The intentional separation from an airborne dispenser of devices, weapons, submunitions, liquids, gases, or other matter, for purposes of employment of the items being dispensed. 3.1.21. Dispersion. A scattered pattern of hits around the mean point of impact (MPI) of bombs and projectiles dropped or fired under identical conditions. 3.1.21 .I. Dispersion, aircraft. Refers to the errors that contribute to the overall ballistic error budget such as sensor errors, on-board avionics errors, timing delays, rotor downwash, fire control, or variation in rack ejection forces. 3.1.21.2. Dispersion. ballistic.
Weapon-to-weapon variation in the free-stream ballistic flight path which is attributed to manufacturing tolerances such as mass and physical properties, and accidental misalignments occurring during assembly and handling of the weapon. 3.1.21.3. Dispersion, system. The total dispersion due to the weapon, aircraft and weather effects such as wind. 3.1.22. Electromaqnetic compatibility IEMC). The capability of electrical and electronic systems, equipment, and devices to operate in their intended electromagnetic environment within a defined margin of safety, and at design levels of performance, without suffering or causing unacceptable degradation as a result of electromagnetic interference.
3.1.23. Ejection. Separation of a store with the assistance of a force imparted from a device, either external or internal to the store. 3.1.24. Electromaqnetic environment effects (E3). The impact of the electromagnetic environment upon the operational capability of military forces, equipmen{ systems and platforms. It encompasses all electromagnetic disciplines, including electromagnetic compatibility; electromagnetic interference; electromagnetic vulnerability; electromagnetic pulse; hazards of electromagnetic radiation to personnel, ordnance and volatile materials; and natural phenomena effects of lightning and precipitation static (p-static).