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New GPS-Guided Airdrops Aid Aircrew Accuracy.
Byline: 1st Lt. Tony Vincelli 124th Wing, Idaho Air National Guard
BOISE, Idaho, March 23 (SPX) -- Mobility aircrews now have a new tool which uses Global Positioning System, or GPS, to help them deliver cargo more accurately and safely in deployed theaters of operation.
The Joint Precision Airdrop System, or JPADS, allows airdrops to be conducted from higher altitudes with improved accuracy, which allows deployed aircrews to remain out of harm's way while delivering important supplies and equipment to the troops that need them, said John Hayes of the Air Mobility Command JPADS mobile training team at Scott Air Force Base, Ill.
Mr. Hayes and a cadre of other instructors were here recently to teach the new system to C-130 Hercules aircrews from the Idaho Air National Guard's 189th Airlift Squadron and aircrews from Kentucky, Georgia and New York.
All four units are set to deploy sometime this year, so getting them together for training like this is exactly what the MTT was set up for, Hayes said.
This "just in time" training gives the aircrews a chance to familiarize themselves at home as opposed to learning a new system in a potentially dangerous environment.
"No one wants to train in a combat environment," Hayes said. "This mobile training is a great short-term solution until formal schools can be established."
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