About This Role
Helicopter pilots ensure that aircraft and weather conditions are airworthy to transport medical crew and patients to receiving hospitals within an assigned operational area. This role is for a pilot committed to safety in air medical transport, partnering to serve communities 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, while maintaining a good work-life balance.
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 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 or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school and two to five years' related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Be less than seventy (70) years old
- Maintain a weight not to exceed 250 pounds
- Maintain positive interpersonal relationships with colleagues, EMS representatives, hospitals, and the public
- Have flown in category within the previous 24 months
- 2000 total flight hours with minimum of 1500 flight hours in category
- 1000 hours PIC in category
- 500 hours of rotor wing turbine
- 200 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)
- 50 hours total actual or hood instrument time in flight and in category (for a RW candidate who is FW rated, 100 hours or greater of FW actual or hood Instrument time can reduce the RW required instrument time to 25 hours)
- 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
- First or Second Class FAA Medical certificate required
