About This Role
This high-visibility role involves teaching, flight testing, and developing future aviators for Airbus Helicopters, Inc. The pilot will deliver ground school instruction and advanced flight training to customer personnel, while also conducting production test flights, ferry missions, and customer demonstrations.
Responsibilities
- Participate in ground and flight instruction/training for customer personnel
- Receive and update flight manuals; screen service bulletins and letters to update and maintain related training courseware and curriculum
- Set up classrooms and training resource materials
- Perform flight training as an instructor pilot with transition and recurrent students in Airbus helicopters, training and evaluating maneuvers that include normal, abnormal, and emergency procedures
- Familiarize self with new or modified systems, instrumentation, or other equipment installed on the aircraft
- Prepare monthly flight log and reports
- Ensure compliance with FAA and other regulations in all Flight Operations assignments
- Prepare required pre-flight and post-flight documentation and reports, detailing significant occurrences
- Coordinate results of flight with appropriate Quality Assurance, Flight Line and Flight Operations personnel
- Pilot aircraft for demonstration flights with potential customers to assist in the Marketing Department effort
- Support other Flight Operations missions, such as customer deliveries, demonstrations, and ferry flights, as dictated by other AHI operational requirements
- Assist customers with flight related maintenance and performance questions; provide other pertinent and related information
- Prepare daily risk assessments and flight plans
- Participate in global company workshops for setting pilot training standards as the voice of AHI and the North American customer
Requirements
- High School diploma or equivalent
- Five (5) years flight experience
- 2000 Pilot-In-Command hours in helicopters (at least 500 hours of which must be in turbine powered helicopters)
- 100 or more hours of flight experience in the last 12 calendar months
- FAA First or Second Class Medical Certificate, Commercial helicopter license, IFR rating, and Certified Flight Instructor rating-helicopter (CFI)
- Able to optimally operate company aircraft and to maintain required FAA certificate and medical requirements
- Able to compose written documentation and to read and interpret various types of technical drawings, data and specifications
- Ability to conduct flight training at night
- Willing to work with translators in the classroom and cockpit
- Must be a US Person or authorized to work in the US
