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B.9.a.3. Ports, Waterways, and Coastal Security
Auxiliary aircraft may be tasked with overflights of critical infrastructure areas to record and report information. The objective of these missions is to search for and report boaters in distress, obstructions to navigation, fires, or other disasters; and may include specific tasking to search for or identify vessels near bridges, in shipping lanes, in the approaches to harbors, or sensitive locations and/or to photograph such events and vessels.
Refer to Chapter 10 of this manual for a detailed description of Ports, Waterways, and Coastal Security (PWCS) missions.
B.9.a.4. Marine Environmental Protection
Auxiliary aircraft may be assigned missions to fly over channels or harbors to report pollution or oil or fuel spills. Auxiliary aircraft can assist Sectors in this mission by patrolling/observing harbors or other areas for unreported spills, and reporting their observations back to the applicable Sector.
Refer to Chapter 10 of this manual for a detailed description of the flight crew’s responsibilities in carrying out marine safety (MS) and marine environmental protection missions.
B.9.a.5. Aids to Navigation
Coast Guard AUXAIR provides assistance to the Coast Guard and other concerned federal agencies in checking and verifying aids to navigation (ATON) and charting details, including reporting discrepant aids to navigation, verifying private aids, and submitting chart corrections/updates.
Refer to Chapter 10 of this manual for a detailed description of the AUXAIR flight crew’s responsibilities in carrying out ATON missions.
B.9.a.6. Ice Reconnaissance
Auxiliary aircraft may be assigned missions to fly over channels or harbors to report ice conditions. Refer to Chapter 10 of this manual for a detailed description of the AUXAIR flight crew’s responsibilities in carrying out the ice reconnaissance mission.
B.9.a.7. Area Familiarization
Auxiliary aircraft provide excellent resources for familiarization of a Coast Guard unit’s area of responsibility (AOR). Commanding officers (COs) may request that personnel at Coast Guard Groups, Sectors, other units, or cutters, travel as passengers or crew aboard Auxiliary aircraft for area familiarization purposes.
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