CAE is hiring a full-time Certified Flight Instructor for its Initial Flight Training (IFT) Program for the United States Air Force (USAF) located in Pueblo, Colorado. Please see an extract of the job post below.

“The Certified Flight Instructor provides training, evaluates performance, and serves as a mentor/professional developer to new military aviators.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Conducting training (ground and flight duties) in accordance with the applicable USAF Air Education and Training Command (AETC) Syllabus and FAA training requirements.
• Providing ground instruction on aircraft systems, training maneuvers, procedures, and other flight related subjects.
• Training and screening pilot, combat system officer, remotely piloted aircraft pilot and international military student pilot candidates.
• Conducting preflight/post flight-debriefings and providing in-flight instruction to ensure students have a thorough understanding and comprehension of the training materials.
• Executing military-style flight training instruction, which consists of basic flight tasks and maneuvers including steep turns, slow flight, stalls, area emergency procedures, ground reference maneuvers, normal patterns, emergency patterns, clock-to-map-to-ground navigation, pilotage and dead reckoning.
• Completing electronic gradebook entries to ensure syllabus requirements are met.

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

• Education: High School Diploma/Equivalent
• Experience: 1 – 2 Years
• License(s)/Certificate(s): Current FAA CFI Certificate w/ Airplane Single Engine Land Privileges
• Minimum requirements: 200 dual hour’s instruction given, Class III Medical
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs
• Must meet the height and weight mission requirements for a DA-20 IFT aircraft

Preferred Skills

• Recent Military Undergraduate Flight Training experience as a fully-qualified instructor, or fully-qualified flight instructor teaching technologically advanced aircraft in large Part 141 flight school.
• Computer Skills: Microsoft Office · Working conditions include outdoors, hangar, office, ramp, aircraft, classroom

Security Responsibilities

Must comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures. Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form. Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval. All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.”

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