56th FIGHTER WING

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56th FIGHTER WING
AUX 1 OPERATIONS
Mike Hanson, Planner 56FW/CVE Community
Initiatives Team
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56 FWMISSION STATEMENT

• Train Americas Finest Pilots and Maintainers.
• Deploy Mission Ready Warfighters

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F-16 PILOT PRODUCTION

• Replenish CAF with over 800 trained warriors this
  fiscal year
• Instruments
• Air to Air Tactics
• Air to Ground Operations
• Night Systems Qualifications
• 175 avg. daily student load
• 944 FW / Continuation Training
• 9 Courses / 40 Tracks
• Basic / Transition / Instructor Use Aux

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F-16 BASIC COURSE
Days
Days
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Instrument Approaches

• TACAN (Tactical Air Navigation) Non Precision
• Course guidance only no glide path
• ILS (Instrument Landing System) Precision
• Course and glide path
• PAR (Precision Approach Radar) Precision
• Aux-1 has one of just a few PARs in CONUS
• Common recovery method in theater

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AUX-1 APPROACHES
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TR AIRSPACE
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AUX 1

• 15 miles NW of Luke AFB activated 1 Jul 1941
• 12,000 operations annually / 27 per OM day

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AUX-1
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AUX-1 Housing Development
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LANTIRNLow Altitude Navigation and Targeting,
Infra-Red, Night

• Targeting Pod
• IR Tracker
• Laser Designator
• Navigation Pod
• FLIR (Forward Looking Infra-Red)
• TFR (Terrain Following Radar)
• TFR confidence check prior to use

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LANT CHECK PATTERN

• Terrain Following Radar (TFR) Confidence Check
• Approx. 400/year mostly night
• 500 feet 450 knots / Flat terrain required
  near base

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Summary

• AUX-1 AND ENVIRONS ARE VITAL TO LUKE TRAINING
  MISSION
• FUTURE MISSIONS / AIRCRAFT POSSIBLE
• DEVELOPMENT IN THE AREA IS BECOMING A FACTOR
• AUX-1 TRAFFIC CANT BE ABSORBED ELSEWHERE

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QUESTIONS?