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Flight Operations

Flight Ops

Job description:

Assisting aircrew in flight planning, monitoring aircraft transmissions, co-ordination with tasking agencies and coalition forces.

  • Joining age: 18-50 (55 with previous military experience)
  • Category: airmen / airwomen
  • Open to: men and women
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Role

Flight Operations Assistants help ensure the safe movement of aircraft at our airfields. You’ll be supporting flying operations in station or squadron ‘ops rooms’ and from control towers at RAF airfields. There you’ll use the latest technology to update aeronautical data, provide information for mission and flight planning and assist Air Traffic Controllers in their work. It’s a job that calls for a cool head, a clear voice and the ability to work successfully under pressure as a crucial member of the team.