Mission Statement
The Interagency Aviation Training Subcommittee (IATS) provides national leadership to establish and disseminate interagency aviation training standards for natural resource agency personnel in support of safe, effective, and efficient use of aviation resources.
- Establish minimum training, skills, knowledge, and currency requirements for agency personnel who work with aircraft or have aviation duties, including managers and supervisors, in order to accomplish fire and resource (non-fire) missions.
- Provide a forum for interagency coordination in the development and implementation of aviation education, training, and qualification standards.
- Recommend standards and guidelines for non-fire aviation training in relation to the Interagency Aviation Training (IAT) Education, Qualification, and Currency System.
- Establish and maintain best practices in education and training methods and techniques. These include: direct instruction, web-based distance learning, and the media and technology necessary to support both.
- Establish and maintain minimum interagency standards for aviation qualification, certification, and documentation.
- Establish qualifications and currency standards for interagency aviation trainers (IATs).
Request For Change
Status of Recent Change Requests
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| Tracking # | Status | Proposed Change |
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| 18-01 | Not Approved | To better match title of courses to actual contents and avoid confusion, I suggest we change: A-104 title from "Overview of Aircraft Capabilities and Limitations" to "Overview of Aircraft Categories and Capabilities", and A-204 title from "Aircraft Capabilities and Limitations" to "Aircraft Aerodynamics, Performance and Limitations." Course descriptions would change accordingly. Consider combining the two courses at next revision date. |
| 18-02 | Approved | Suggest to create and make available the course A-455 Overview of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) Operations. There is a large interest in UAS within the bureau. Would like an avenue to educate employees on UAS and capabilities interagency wide. |
| 18-03 | Pending | Modify the instructor criteria for the A-309 Helicopter Flight Manuals course to include OAS Trainers and Currently Qualified Resource and Fire Helicopter Managers. Currently the only positions/titles recognized as instructors are HIP and HOS. Add additional language to define the Course Purpose in the front matter of course materials. This will meet the current Instructor Guide template used for A Course revisions and help to define the target audience. |
| 18-04 | Approved | A-225 Course Length to 2 Hours from the current 1.5 Hrs. Removal of Student Guide, as the objectives covered can be done via course presentation of objectives and updates to IAT website for instructors via live review online. |
| 18-05a | Not Approved | A-208 is currently required once for the Interagency aviation training position of "Aviation Manager". The class is listed in the IAT Guide as "2 hours".
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| 18-05b | Not Approved | A-208 is currently required once for the Interagency aviation training position of "Aviation Manager". The class is listed in the IAT Guide as "2 hours".
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| 18-06 | Pending | Grant IAT Instructors NWCG S- to A- course equivalence. If an instructor has NWCG quals to instruct an S- course, then they should be given IAT quals to instruct the A-course equivalent courses as found in the "One Way S-Course (NWCG) to A-Course(s) IAT Equivalency Matrix". |
| 18-07 | Approved | Allow UATA's to update a very limited subset of fields in profiles (eg, supervisor). |
| 18-08 | Approved | Allow appropriate IAT positions (UATA, etc) to search compliance by course. |
| 18-09 | Approved | A-208 is currently required once for the Interagency aviation training position of "Aviation Manager". The class is listed in the IAT Guide as "2 hours".
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| 18-10 | Approved | Removal of the outdated Field Reference Guide for Aviation Users (2014) from the DOI OAS Library:and other websites: |