Advanced Training™
Night LZ Survey™ Course
This advanced course prepares experienced surveyors to conduct full-spectrum Landing Zone (LZ) surveys under night conditions, using proven methods and equipment optimized for low- and no-light environments. Trainees will apply core techniques in soils assessment, pavement evaluation, and site analysis using NVG-compatible tools and night-adapted TTPs. The course is designed to build confidence, sharpen judgment, and ensure teams can deliver accurate, decision-ready LZ products during nighttime operations — when precision matters most.
Desert Landing Site (DLS)™
This course equips survey teams with the skills to assess, select, and manage tactical Desert Landing Sites (DLS) in austere environments. It covers full-spectrum survey operations including site selection through imagery analysis, assessment of service life under changing weather conditions, and operational risk tied to degraded or semi-prepared surfaces.
Personnel will receive structured instruction on applying official guidance from ETLs 97-9, 04-7, 02-19, and DAFMAN 13-217 (with applicable AFSOC supplements), ensuring compliance with current Air Force standards for expeditionary airfield operations.
The course emphasizes hazard identification and mitigation — including obstruction clearance, surface gradient evaluation, and accurate determination of displaced thresholds. Students will also learn to measure and report ruts, rolling resistance, and friction factors to support SPACI assessments and inform aircraft movement decisions.
Sending personnel to this training ensures your unit is prepared to safely evaluate and operate from desert or degraded airfields with confidence, minimizing operational risk and improving aircraft survivability across contingency scenarios.
Specialized Fueling Operations (SFO) & Forward Arming Refueling Point (FARP) Survey™ Course
This course prepares personnel to conduct comprehensive surveys and certifications of tactical and administrative Specialized Fueling Operations and Forward Arming and Refueling Point (FARP) sites — whether temporary, permanent, or for STANEVAL and Loadmaster evaluation.
Training focuses on ensuring safe, compliant site selection and includes instruction on hazard identification, aircraft and personnel safety, environmental impact analysis, and emergency egress planning. Students learn how to assess site viability in alignment with unit mission requirements and prepare complete survey packages for submission to the final approval authority.
The course reinforces the highest safety standards for aircraft operations and includes familiarization with sister service and non-U.S. controlled FARP procedures to support joint and coalition interoperability.
Sending personnel to this course ensures your team can confidently evaluate and certify FARP sites, reduce risk, and maintain operational tempo in austere or coalition-controlled environments.
Note: Course instruction also includes an introduction to sister service and other than U.S. controlled FARP sites standards and procedures.
Dynamic Cone Penetrometer (DCP) & Magnetic Ruler
This advanced course delivers critical training for personnel responsible for evaluating landing surface strength and determining operational risk during Assault Zone operations. It provides a comprehensive understanding of the Dynamic Cone Penetrometer (DCP) and Magnetic Ruler — essential tools for assessing surface integrity and making informed Go/No-Go decisions for landing large and heavy aircraft on unprepared or semi-prepared surfaces.
Through a combination of hands-on application and scenario-based mission planning, students learn how to identify and prioritize test locations, convert DCP readings into CBR equivalents, manually plot data, break soil layers, and correlate surface strength with complex aircraft loading cycles.
This course is essential for any operator or surveyor tasked with enabling airfield access under austere or degraded conditions — where real-time decisions have direct implications on aircraft survivability and mission success.
Paved Surface Evaluation™ & PCASE Course
This course trains personnel to assess the structural integrity of paved airfields and landing zones to determine aircraft suitability and operational risk. It introduces the Aircraft Classification Number/Pavement Classification Number (ACN/PCN) system and covers surface distress identification, Pavement Condition Index (PCI) reporting, and the evaluation of shearing strength, allowable gross loads, and aircraft pass limits.
Students develop proficiency in advanced usage of the Pavement-Transportation Computer Assisted Structural Engineering (PCASE) software to perform accurate, data-driven assessments in support of Go/No-Go decisions for large and heavy aircraft operations on paved surfaces.
This course is essential for any team tasked with enabling access to fixed infrastructure under high-demand or degraded conditions—where the margin for error is minimal and aircraft survivability depends on the quality of the evaluation.