Commercial Aviation Full time flight instructor

Commercial Aviation Full time flight instructor

HINDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Job Descriptions
JOB TITLE: Airframe and Powerplant Instructor

REPORTS TO: District Director of Aviation
DEPARTMENT: Aviation
EXEMPT:
VICE PRESIDENT: Instruction and CTE

GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE FUNCTION
All Hinds Community College employees must commit to the Caring Campus approach to student engagement and daily apply these general behavioral objectives: listen to student questions and concerns with a positive attitude and make meaningful connections with students.

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIREMENTS
 To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

Required:

Minimum Education and Experience

• Experience providing flight or ground instruction in accordance with FAA regulations.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical aviation information clearly and effectively.
• Demonstrated ability to work professionally with students possessing different experience levels, educational backgrounds, and learning needs.
• Ability to supervise, mentor, and provide instructional guidance to part-time flight instructors.

Required FAA Certificates, Ratings, and Qualifications

The applicant must possess and maintain the following:

• FAA Commercial Pilot Certificate with Airplane Single-Engine Land and Instrument-Airplane ratings.
• FAA Flight Instructor Certificate with Airplane Single-Engine rating.
• FAA Flight Instructor Certificate with Instrument-Airplane rating.
• FAA medical certification sufficient to exercise the privileges required by the assigned duties.
• Applicable pilot and flight-instructor currency, recent-experience, and qualification requirements.
• Eligibility to operate and provide instruction in aircraft and aviation training devices assigned by Hinds Community College.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Associate degree or higher from an accredited college or university.
• FAA Multi-Engine Instructor rating.
• FAA Advanced Ground Instructor or Instrument Ground Instructor Certificate.
• At least 400 hours of total flight time.
• At least 100 hours of flight instruction given.
• Experience in a college, university, military, or structured professional flight-training program.
• Experience supervising, mentoring, or standardizing flight instructors.
• Experience providing instruction in technically advanced aircraft and aircraft equipped with glass-cockpit avionics.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following.
Essential duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Provide safe and effective flight, ground, simulator, and aviation training-device instruction in accordance with 14 CFR Part 61, applicable FAA guidance, Hinds Community College policies, and Commercial Aviation program procedures.
• Conduct preflight and postflight briefings and provide timely, constructive, and documented feedback to students.
• Prepare students for FAA knowledge tests, practical tests, stage checks, proficiency evaluations, and other program requirements.
• Teach aeronautical knowledge, flight procedures, aircraft systems, risk management, aeronautical decision-making, and professional airmanship.
• Evaluate student knowledge, flight proficiency, judgment, risk management, and progress toward course and FAA certification requirements.
• Develop individualized training or corrective-action plans for students who are not progressing according to established expectations.
• Maintain complete, accurate, and timely student flight, ground, simulator, endorsement, and progress records.
• Review student records to ensure compliance with FAA regulations and Commercial Aviation program requirements.
• Verify aircraft status, weather conditions, airport conditions, aircraft performance, weight and balance, and other operational considerations before flight.
• Exercise appropriate aeronautical decision-making and cancel, delay, divert, or discontinue training when conditions create an unacceptable level of risk.
• Promote and participate in the Commercial Aviation program’s safety reporting and risk-