Will AI Replace Airfield Operations Specialists?

Inspect airfield conditions to ensure compliance with federal regulatory requirements.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Implement airfield safety procedures to ensure a safe operating environment for personnel and aircraft operation.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Conduct inspections of the airport property and perimeter to maintain controlled access to airfields.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Assist in responding to aircraft and medical emergencies.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Initiate or conduct airport-wide coordination of snow removal on runways and taxiways.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Manage wildlife on and around airport grounds.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Coordinate communications between air traffic control and maintenance personnel.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Perform and supervise airfield management activities, including mobile airfield management functions.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Plan and coordinate airfield construction.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Monitor the arrival, parking, refueling, loading, and departure of all aircraft.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Train operations staff.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Coordinate with agencies, such as air traffic control, civil engineers, or command posts, to ensure support of airfield management activities.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Relay departure, arrival, delay, aircraft and airfield status, and other pertinent information to upline controlling agencies.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Provide aircrews with information and services needed for airfield management and flight planning.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Coordinate with agencies to meet aircrew requirements for billeting, messing, refueling, ground transportation, and transient aircraft maintenance.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Use airfield landing and navigational aids and digital data terminal communications equipment to perform duties.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Receive, transmit, and control message traffic.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Maintain air-to-ground and point-to-point radio contact with aircraft commanders.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Procure, produce, and provide information on the safe operation of aircraft, such as flight planning publications, operations publications, charts and maps, or weather information.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Anticipate aircraft equipment needs for air evacuation and cargo flights.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Post visual display boards and status boards.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Receive and post weather information and flight plan data, such as air routes or arrival and departure times.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Conduct departure and arrival briefings.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Collaborate with others to plan flight schedules and air crew assignments.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Maintain flight and event logs, air crew flying records, and flight operations records of incoming and outgoing flights.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.

Coordinate changes to flight itineraries with appropriate Air Traffic Control (ATC) agencies.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Check military flight plans with civilian agencies.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.