UH60M Instructor Pilot

Job Requirements:

Responsible for performing duties as an Instructor Pilot in the UH-60M Series Aircraft and supporting simulation device(s). Conduct qualification, refresher, readiness level, mission, and continuation training and evaluation of customer and pilots in accordance with MNG-AVN Aircrew Training Manual (ATM) requirements.  Conduct academic and hands-on performance training and administer evaluations to ensure pilot proficiency and standardization of training.  Responsible for maintaining Individual Aircrew Training Folder (IATF) and completing required training, currency, and readiness entries. Conducts UH-60M Series Aircraft specific ground school instruction in a classroom environment, providing basic instrument instruction in the aircraft and flight training device(s), and performing flight training duties in contact, instrument, and combat skills training to MNG-AVN ATM standards IAW government approved ATM, FTG, and POI requirements.  Instruction may include any combination of Individual or Group instruction in an academic classroom environment and or aircraft or simulator. Perform other duties as required by the Director Brigade Flight Training and or the Battalion Standardization Officer.

Major Duties and Responsibilites:

• Train and evaluate Aviation pilots in the UH-60M Series Aircraft in accordance with the MNG-AVN ATM and specific unit ATP guidelines.

 
• Reports to the Battalion Standardization officer.  Works within the policies and procedures of the contract.  Able to select and implement goals and objectives within the execution of duties and responsibilities.

• Supervisory Responsibilities: Report directly to assigned Standardization IP.  Supervise all assigned Instructor Pilots. Supervisor of all flight training related functions to include daily flight training operations and endorsement of customer and additional instructor pilots or unit trainers.

• Assist in managing the Aviation Aircrew Training Program in accordance with customer guidance.

• Verify and confirm that all required flight training publications are current and complete.

• Conduct and evaluate individual readiness level progression tasks, to include instrument flight tasks during day, night, and night vision goggle (NVG), and instrument flight rules (IFR).

• Prepare pilots through realistic mission training flight maneuvers under local environmental conditions to include dust landings, overwater flight, weather specific desert training, and other environmental tasks as required. 

• Provide aircrew proficiency training in Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC) in and outside controlled airspace under Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and or international Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) rules.

   
• Attends meetings as required with Customers.

• Recommend aviation instructor pilot appointments to customer leadership.

 
• As a member of the Aviation Safety Council, attend regularly scheduled Aviation Safety Council meetings as required.

• Attend and provide training and mission planning input to the weekly Production Control and Operations meeting.

• Responsible for providing direct interface and daily status reports as required between staff for training status, mission assignments, mission planning, and crew status.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education Level:

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Must have been qualified as a Pilot in Command.
• Must have 1000 hours of PC time with 500 of those hours in type aircraft. 
• Graduate of UH-60 Instructor Pilot Course (IPC)/Methods of Instruction (MOI) course at an authorized Aviation Proponent School or an IP equivalency evaluation administered by a standardization instructor pilot (SP) selected by the Directorate of Evaluations and Standardization (DES) required. 
• Qualified on the UH-60M Series Aircraft required.
• Minimum of 300 flight hours Instructor Pilot time.
• Minimum of 250 flight hours Night Vision Goggles (NVG).  
• FAA Commercial Pilot certificate required or GACA pilot certificate.

Experience: 
1. Experience in Utility helicopter mission required. Combat experience preferred. Instructor Pilot experience at Fort Rucker preferred.

Specific knowledge, skills, ability:  
1. Successfully pass the Army or FAA Class II Flight Physical or GACA Flight Physical upon hire, and annually thereafter required.
2. Knowledge of Army Aviation training concepts, administration, and logistics.

Perferred Qualifications:  

• Minimum of 2000 total flight hours (total time) preferred.
• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent