Operations Officer Specialty Track

[flyguy06]

I was wondering something and wanted to ask all you Professional Development gurus.

In my squadron whenever a new member joins my commander asks them to get a specialty track and then he tells them to progres in it. I dont really think he has read or understands the specialty tracks himself though.

A non pilot type jined and wanted to get into the Operations officer specitly track. here's theproblem. I looked pverthis track and I found that in oder to get a techniciuan rating, you have to have a technician rating in ES and Stan/Eval. So, I went over to the stand/eval specialty track and read that in oder to get a Technician rating you have to be a CFI.

So what it breaks down to me is that you cannot be a operations officer unless you are a CFI which means you HAVE to be a pilot.

Is this a correct interpretation? I'm not sure because it does sound very limiting. WHat if a unit doenst have any pilots in it? How can someone be the ops officer?

If this is true then this new member who is not even a pilot cannot get into theOps officer track. I think all our members inmy unit need to sit down and take a serious lok at the specialty tracks.

[SarDragon]

If you have no pilots, why do you need an Ops Officer. If you are doing ES w/o FlOps, then you probably just need an ES Officer, which, according to 20-1, can be a stand alone position.

[flyguy06]

If you have no pilots, why do you need an Ops Officer. If you are doing ES w/o FlOps, then you probably just need an ES Officer, which, according to 20-1, can be a stand alone position.

Well, in my mind opertions means ANYTHING your unit does not just flying. But we do have pilots. I am a pilot but I'm the DCC. Our Commander is a pilot but he's the commander, the DC for seniors is apilot

[SarDragon]

Then it sounds like you need to get one of the pilots involved in the Ops Off track.

Review of CAPP 211 and CAPR 20-1 reveals that most of the duties of the Ops Off deal with flying, so the requirement to be a pilot looks like a good one. Other non-flying related subordinate positions have fewer prerequisites, and may be broken out from under Ops. See CAPR 20-1, pages 20 and 27-30.