BFI/FARP
The POL Interoperability Publication
The document’s objective is to promote and facilitate cooperation and mutual understanding between EAG nations in the POL. It will contain 6 annexes, providing a list of general POL information on EAG nations. The document is designed to be a simple reference guide and identifies a nation’s ability to deliver fuel support.
The Fuel Arming Refuelling Procedures (FARP)
On 9 October 2007, a FARP Workshop and Demonstration was held at MoD Stafford (UK), hosted by the RAF’s Tactical Supply Wing (TSW). Representatives from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the EAG attended the meeting, which focu
sed on tactical refuelling for helicopters (disregarding the arming aspects), and was based on TSW’s capabilities and procedures for forward refuelling. The OC of TSW HQ Sqn briefed how TSW is organized, its facilities, capabilities and its commitments. TSW also displayed the assets they use to deliver fuel under different tactical situations. As a follow up to the FARP Workshop and Demonstration, the various national operating procedures were collated as the basis for further work for interoperable operations in the future. This event helped to revitalize the Fuel Support Project by updating the EAG POL Information Publication and by further developing the concept of Multinational POL, based on a mix of single national capabilities for the each specific different function of the tactical fuel supply process; such as distribution, BFI, bowser pool, quality assurance and FARP.
