About This Role
Helicopter pilots ensure the airworthiness of aircraft and weather conditions for transporting medical crews and patients to hospitals within an assigned operational area. The role involves strict compliance with Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR), Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM), and General Operations Manual (GOM) guidelines, along with Air Methods policies and procedures. It suits a pilot committed to safety and professional standards.
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
- Serve as the 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
Requirements
- Associate’s degree (A.A.) 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
- 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
- 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
- Commercial single-engine land is required for single-engine aircraft
