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618TH Air and Space Operations Center
(Tanker Airlift Control Center)
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Flight Efficiencies
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How the World Sees The USAF
OPR:
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How the US Army/Marines See Us
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How We See OurselvesFY2012
■Aircraft – 1,155 (C17, C5, KC10, KC135,
C130)
■Sorties – 105,773
■Passengers – 1,895,086
■Cargo – 661,344 Short tons or 599,839
Metric Tons
■Flying Hours – 422,401
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Want to Fly the Most Cost Effective Route But:
■ Flight planning system’s replacement currently
unfunded
■ No replacement system expected prior to
CY16/17
■ Current Flight Planning System
●Manually intensive
●Does not easily support dynamic airspace
●Relies on company routes
●Does not ingest anything but AIRAC data,
everything else is manually inputted
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Office Saw a Need to TrackEfficiencies To Build Business Cases
To Lobby For Flight Efficiencies
■ Started collecting the following metrics on an Excel spreadsheet in
2006:
● Type aircraft: C17, C5, KC10, KC135, & C130
● Number of sorties flown
● Time or Fuel saved which is the converted into
– $USD savings
– US Gallons saved
– CO2 saved
– Flight Time Saved
■ Spreadsheet uses only historic data and is verified by AMC’s Fuel
Efficiency Office and Financial Managers
■ Allows office to track savings and build business cases to lobby
ANSPs for routing/altitude changes
■ Became an official USAF program subject to annual reviews in 2012
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EXAMPLESLERT
TIME 5+25
TIME 5+53
TIME 4+06
CURRENT
PROPOSED
-USAF aircraft avoided Portugal due to diplomatic reasons
- Able to obtain clearances but no RAD compliant route available
- Worked with Eurocontrol, Portugal, and Spain at RAD meetings to
build a RAD compliant route
- New Route saves the USAF $719K/73.7K Gallons/1.6M CO2 per year
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TB6
- Netherland’s Military could no longer support 24/7 ops on TB6
- GAT routing was 7 minutes longer
- Eurocontrol called all parties together
- TB6 remained opened
- Saved the USAF $1.5M/110.8K gallons/ and emitted 2.4M less CO2 per
year
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ETAR
- Aircraft must descend to non-optimal attitudes coming from the east into ETAR
- Worked with DFS, IATA, and Eurocontrol and developed several proposals
- Final proposal would save USAF $144K/87K Gallons/1.9M Ibs of CO2
- Waiting final approval
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Worldwide Savings
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