"Unrivaled Global Reach for America … ALWAYS!"

618TH Air and Space Operations Center

(Tanker Airlift Control Center)

1

Flight Efficiencies

618 TACC/XOCZF

2

618 AOC (TACC)

How the World Sees The USAF

OPR:

3

618 AOC (TACC)

How the US Army/Marines See Us

4

618 AOC (TACC)

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

5

618 AOC (TACC)

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

6

618 AOC (TACC)

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

7

618 AOC (TACC)

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

8

618 AOC (TACC)

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

9

618 AOC (TACC)

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

10

618 AOC (TACC)

11

618 AOC (TACC)

12

618 AOC (TACC)

Worldwide Savings

13

618 AOC (TACC)

QUESTIONS?