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U.S. AIR FORCE AUXILIARY. Air Operations Branch Director Course. Status Boards & Situation Maps. Running a Professional Operation. Fundamental Importance of Status Boards and Situation Maps Visualization of complex and changing information Information sharing among staff
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U.S. AIR FORCE AUXILIARY Air OperationsBranch Director Course Status Boards &Situation Maps
Running a Professional Operation • Fundamental Importance of Status Boards and Situation Maps • Visualization of complex and changing information • Information sharing among staff • Safety and resource accountability • Continuity: passing information on to staff in charge of next operational period • Importance grows with larger, more complex, longer lasting missions
Status boards • Maintained all day long, with up to the minute info • Typical boards maintained at a mission: • Air Ops Status Board • Ground Ops Status Board
Air Ops Status Board • Additional places this same info goes: • WIMRS (financial view) • Flight Ops Log Form CAPF 107 (permanent record for mission file)
Situation map (or maps) • Search area segmented • Plot mission critical information • Clues (flight plans, historical weather, etc.) • Searches completed • Searches underway • Planned searches • POD and POA • TFRs and other important NOTAMs • Some of these items (like clues and POD/POA) might get tracked on a Planning Section map, while others should appear on the Ops Section map.
Situation Map (or maps) Should ideally post on a wall for all mission staff to see Might have one map for POD and POA and another map for current SRU assignments ROW: 20% POA 35% POD 6% POA 45% POD 8% POA 20% POD 13% POA 35% POD 13% POA 0% POD 2% POA TC 280 TC 281 TC 282 TC 283 TC 284 35% POD 15% POA 35% POD 15% POA 0% POD 8% POA 0% POD 2% POA 35% POD 8% POA TC 314 TC 316 TC 317 TC 318 TC 319
Situation Map Keep a record of what searches have been accomplished so that POD can be determined