FlightSafety International is the world's premier professional aviation training company, recognized globally as a leading supplier of advanced flight simulators, visual systems, and displays to commercial, government, and military organizations. The company is dedicated to providing unparalleled training solutions for pilots, technicians, and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. Operating the world's largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and offering award-winning maintenance training, FlightSafety maintains state-of-the-art Learning Centers and training locations across the United States, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom.
As a pivotal member of the FlightSafety International team, the Flight Instructor is responsible for delivering exceptional ground and simulator flight instruction. This role plays a critical part in shaping the next generation of aviation professionals, ensuring all training is conducted in strict accordance with both established aviation regulations and FlightSafety's rigorous training principles.
The Flight Instructor's core responsibilities include:
While no specific formal educational degree is mandated, candidates must demonstrate the necessary certifications and experience as outlined below.
Candidates for the Flight Instructor position must possess the following qualifications:
Successful candidates will demonstrate:
The responsibilities of this role necessitate specific physical capabilities and an adaptability to varying work environments.
While performing the duties of this job, the Flight Instructor is regularly required to utilize hands for fine manipulation of objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and engage in verbal communication and active listening. The role may occasionally require standing, walking, sitting, climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and tasting or smelling.
Candidates must possess the physical range of body motion to perform the following: reach, exert pressure, and manipulate rudder controls and/or anti-torque pedals with both feet; reach and manipulate numerous controls within the simulator device from the instructor's chair; enter and exit the simulator device via the provided ramp; move between the instructor station, screen, and podium while instructing in a classroom setting; and safely exit a malfunctioned simulator while the device is in a severely pitched attitude. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
The employee will regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, and frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
The work environment frequently involves proximity to moving mechanical parts. Employees may occasionally work in elevated or precarious locations and in outside weather conditions, with potential exposure to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme cold, extreme heat, risk of electrical shock, risk of radiation, and vibration.
Equal Opportunity Employer: FlightSafety International is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disabled. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.
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