I'm almost afraid to ask, but what's a NATOPS??
*be nice :)
It is a huge binder specific to a naval airplane. It stands for NAval Training OPerations Standardization. (Note the capitalized letters to make the acronym).
It contains all types of safety procedure, equipment information, circuit breaker locations, actually everything to do with the airplane. Any time a accident happens they rewrite the procedure so it "shouldn't" happen again. (so they have said it is "written in blood")
We used to have to memorize Everything in it that pertained to our job. We were tested on it annually for proficiency to maintain qualification (I was an aircrewman in the Lockheed P-3C(u) Orion and got out of the navy after 13 years at Moffett Field, CA)