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United States

Airborne photographer

Lithonia, Georgia

Lithonia, Georgia, United States

TFO is responsible for quite a mix of cutting edge technologies and radios. Searchlight and thermal imaging system, moving maps systems, microwave downlink systems, night vision goggles.Consider all the information a tactical flight officer must manage during a night time vehicle pursuit. In addition to calling out the vehicles location, direction of travel, potential safety considerations, the TFO of today is often tasked with recording the event with the camera side of the thermal imager. While keeping one eye on the stolen vehicle, they are also watching the moving map for street locations, especially if the pursuit goes into neighboring, often unfamiliar jurisdictions. While keeping up with the vehicle and streets, there are usually two or more police radios buzzing asking a million questions about the pursuit.Many other missions are also quite demanding and workload intensive. If additional crew and/or passengers are aboard, it is often the TFO that interacts to complete the mission. For example, if a crime scene photographer is on-board to take photos of a scene, the TFO must coordinate to make sure the photographer gets what is needed and does not get sick in the process! If the mission consists of transmitting images to ground commanders a command center, or sometimes both, the TFO must provide the requested shots while usually being asked to provide several shots of different locations all at once.All the police duties must be completed and the TFO must always maintain and provide attention to his or primary duty; safety of flight. Yes, even with all the responsibilities of the police side of an aircraft mission, the TFO must always look for conflicting aircraft such as news media following the pursuit and obstacles such as towers and wires.

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