Use airfield landing and navigational aids and digital data terminal communications equipment to perform duties.

“Use airfield landing and navigational aids and digital data terminal communications equipment to perform duties.” is a supplemental task performed by Airfield Operations Specialists. Among the occupation's 27 rated tasks, workers place it 16th by importance (#12 most important). About 60% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Operate transportation equipment or vehicles. in Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T2.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Inspect airfield conditions to ensure compliance with federal regulatory requirements. · importance 4.9
• Implement airfield safety procedures to ensure a safe operating environment for personnel and aircraft operation. · importance 4.8
• Conduct inspections of the airport property and perimeter to maintain controlled access to airfields. · importance 4.7
• Assist in responding to aircraft and medical emergencies. · importance 4.7
• Initiate or conduct airport-wide coordination of snow removal on runways and taxiways. · importance 4.7
• Manage wildlife on and around airport grounds. · importance 4.6
• Coordinate communications between air traffic control and maintenance personnel. · importance 4.3
• Coordinate with agencies to meet aircrew requirements for billeting, messing, refueling, ground transportation, and transient aircraft maintenance. · importance 4.3
• Perform and supervise airfield management activities, including mobile airfield management functions. · importance 4.3
• Plan and coordinate airfield construction. · importance 4.2
• Monitor the arrival, parking, refueling, loading, and departure of all aircraft. · importance 4.2
• Train operations staff. · importance 4.1
• Coordinate with agencies, such as air traffic control, civil engineers, or command posts, to ensure support of airfield management activities. · importance 4.1
• Receive, transmit, and control message traffic. · importance 4.0

See all tasks on the Airfield Operations Specialists page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Use airfield landing and navigational aids and digital data terminal communications equipment to perform duties.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-10632}
}