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Essential Status Boards and Situation Maps for Professional Air Operations

This course focuses on the critical role of status boards and situation maps in managing U.S. Air Force Auxiliary operations. It emphasizes real-time information visualization, ensuring effective information sharing among staff, and maintaining safety and resource accountability. With larger and longer-lasting missions, the use of status boards is fundamental for mission success, displaying air and ground operations information. The course also covers the importance of keeping detailed records of searches, clues, and other mission-critical data, optimizing operational efficiency and continuity for future periods.

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Essential Status Boards and Situation Maps for Professional Air Operations

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  1. U.S. AIR FORCE AUXILIARY Air OperationsBranch Director Course Status Boards &Situation Maps

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Air Ops Status Board

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

  6. CAPF 107

  7. 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.

  8. 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

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

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