AOF
The Air Ops Flying (AOF) section supports, organises and coordinates Air Ops related activities within the 7 nation EAG. The AOF area is staffed by aircrew from a variety of European nations military fast jet and transport aircraft. The AOF area engages in a variety of roles, projects and provides specialist advice and support across the wide range of activity within the EAG.
Current AOF activities include:
- Advanced Training Master Plan (ATMP): Near and long term exercise coordination;
- Garlic Lemon: A Technical Arrangement (TA) for operational units to access the Low Flying Systems (LFS) of each other’s country;
- Eurofight: A TA providing an agreed multilateral framework for Air Defence Training amongst participating nations;
- AACMI: Development, standardisation and integration of Autonomous Air-Combat Manoeuvring Instrumentation (AACMI) pods;
- CAS: Exercise coordination and unit integration. Support to Land Organizations on Air Land Integration issues;
- VOLCANEX: provides manpower for definition, planning, execution and evaluation phases of EAG exercises, as required;
- Other Ongoing Activities: Air Ops research, seminars, augmentees on NATO exercises, EUROCONTROL liaison.
