How do they match: Airfield Operations Specialists

  • Aircraft Rescue and Firefighter
  • Flight Operations Engineer

  • Ensure the safe takeoff and landing of commercial and military aircraft. Duties include coordination between air-traffic control and maintenance personnel, dispatching, using airfield landing and navigational aids, implementing airfield safety procedures, monitoring and maintaining flight records, and applying knowledge of weather information.

  • Anticipate aircraft equipment needs for air evacuation and cargo flights.
  • Assist in responding to aircraft and medical emergencies.
  • Coordinate with agencies to meet aircrew requirements for billeting, messing, refueling, ground transportation, and transient aircraft maintenance.
  • Coordinate with agencies, such as air traffic control, civil engineers, or command posts, to ensure support of airfield management activities.
  • Implement airfield safety procedures to ensure a safe operating environment for personnel and aircraft operation.
  • Maintain air-to-ground and point-to-point radio contact with aircraft commanders.
  • Monitor the arrival, parking, refueling, loading, and departure of all aircraft.
  • Procure, produce, and provide information on the safe operation of aircraft, such as flight planning publications, operations publications, charts and maps, or weather information.
  • Relay departure, arrival, delay, aircraft and airfield status, and other pertinent information to upline controlling agencies.

  • Pilot aircraft.