About This Role
Piloting helicopters for MercyOne Air Med is the core of this job, ensuring safe air medical transport 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The role requires a pilot committed to safety and compliance with all aviation regulations and company policies, ensuring aircraft and weather conditions are airworthy for transporting medical crew and patients.
Responsibilities
- Operate Air Methods aircraft in a safe and legal manner
- Complete pre-flight before every flight, verifying the aircraft is in an airworthy condition by signing off the Daily Flight Log
- Perform a complete walk around of the aircraft prior to entering the cockpit for flight and upon completion of each flight
- Maintain final authority with regard to operations of aircraft and for the safety of passengers, cargo, and equipment
- Be thoroughly familiar with all aircraft and medical systems of backup aircraft utilized at the operational area
- Ensure that the medical flight team is familiar and comfortable with the medical interior and systems
- Complete required documentation
- Conduct detailed flight planning with little notice to exacting standards
- Participate regularly in Air Methods meetings, activities, projects, committees, and community outreach
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Regular scheduled attendance (7/7 schedule - 12 hour shifts)
Requirements
- Associate’s degree or equivalent from two-year college or technical school and two to five years’ related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- As a member of the Flight Crew, maintain a weight not to exceed 250 pounds
- Be less than seventy (70) years old
- Maintain positive interpersonal relationships with colleagues, EMS representatives, hospitals, and the public and strive to maintain a friendly and professional working environment
- Have flown in category within the previous 24 months
- 2500 total flight hours with minimum of 2000 flight hours in category
- 1000 hours PIC in category
- 500 hours of rotor wing turbine time
- 500 hours of cross-country flight time, at least 50 hours of which were at night
- 100 hours unaided night as PIC (50 hours of unaided can be substituted for by 100 hours of NVG time, but cannot be reduced below 50 hours of unaided time)
- 75 hours of actual or simulated instrument time, at least 50 hours which were in flight in an aircraft including 20 hours in actual instrument conditions in category
- Instrument rating (for category and class of aircraft) (ATP rating in category meets this requirement)
- Fixed wing multiengine rating is required for twin-engine aircraft