 John Catacuzanos and I'm a trainer and assessor at the State Run Air Observer Course in sunny Bendigo today. The Air Observer Course is about bringing together two days of theory and two days of practical flying that includes assessment to get our people trained to be able to gather intelligent information over fires, floods or any other emergency that can then feed that back to either an ICC through the planning unit or down to Ops in the ground. My name's Ben McConville and I'm a volunteer with the Sunbury Fire Brigade. The main reasons for doing this course is I've always had an interest in aviation. After doing this course I'll be able to contribute to my brigade in upskilling them with map reading skills that are used in aviation. This will also help with being on the ground and knowing what you can ask for from support in the air. So it'd be an Air Observer, there's several prereqs. So for CFA the prerequisites they've got to have crew leader and intro to AIMS and then they go through an application process and then they attend a four-day course and then at the end of that if they're successful they are then state Air Observers so they can go out and work in the multi-agency space as Air Observers either on rotary aircrafts or helicopters like the one behind me today or fixed wing so aeroplanes.