Air Operations Branch Director Course Status Boards & Situation Maps U.S. AIR FORCE AUXILIARY U.S. AIR FORCE AUXILIARY

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 SORTIE TAIL NUMBER CALLSIGN ATD (Z) ETA (Z) ATA (Z) LAST CONTACT (Z) ASSIGNMENT 1N1974F CPF Grid Search TC 375 A&B 2N9546X CPF 2150 Route Search STC - AXN

Air Ops Status Board Additional places this same info goes: –WIMRS (financial view) –Flight Ops Log Form CAPF 107 (permanent record for mission file)

CAPF 107

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) TC 280 TC 281 TC 282 TC 284 TC 283 TC 314 TC 316 TC 317 TC 318 TC %POD6%POA45%POD8%POA20%POD13%POA35%POD13%POA0%POD2%POA 35%POD8%POA 35%POD15%POA35%POD15%POA0%POD8%POA0%POD2%POA ROW:20%POA 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

Situation Map Keep a record of what searches have been accomplished so that POD can be determined