S470 - Air Operations Branch Director

Reviewed: 2002     Hours: 40

Course Description:

This course is designed to meet the needs of the air operations branch director (AOBD) position.  Topics include:  preparedness and mobilization, initial briefings and meetings, transition, preparing and organizing for an aviation operation, implementation of an aviation operation, management and oversight of an aviation operation, and demobilization.

Objectives:

• Perform the tasks required of an Air Operations Branch Director (AOBD) to mobilize and transition into an incident aviation environment, and be able to prepare for, manage, and oversee an aviation operation in given simulations and exercises to support incident activities.

Target Group:

Personnel desiring to be a qualified air operations branch director (AOBD).  This course is designed primarily to instruct fully qualified and experienced air support group supervisors (ASGS) in the skills necessary to perform at the air operations branch director (AOBD) level in all situations.

Minimum Instructor Qualifications:

Lead and unit instructors must be qualified air operations branch directors (AOBD).

Also see Instructor Certification at the beginning of the Field Manager's Course Guide.

Prerequisites:

Qualified as an air support group supervisor (ASGS).

Successful completion of pre-course work.

Offer Level:
Regional, state, or area

This Course Description is verbatim from the NWCG Field Manager's Course Guide (156 page PDF: Adobe Acrobat Reader required) and accurate as of 12-17-2009.

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