Maintenance Test Pilot (AH-64 E) CBA Wheeler AAF, Hawaii

The Maintenance Test Pilot (AH-64 E) utilizes flight test techniques to perform test flights of aircraft to measure performance and handling to determine airworthiness following maintenance or modifications.

• Perform test flights and demonstrating aircraft proficiency upon completion of aircraft maintenance or modifications on aircraft.

• Determine in accordance with publications and procedures the airworthiness of aircraft prior to release for flight.

• Perform recovery flights and ferries aircraft to additional sites, such as depots.

• Perform troubleshooting procedures of aircraft on the ground and during flight and makes appropriate write-ups or gives verbal instructions to correct deficiencies.

• Verify forms and records used in the performance of maintenance to ensure they comply with work performed prior to ground or flight checks.

• Run-up aircraft for alert status to perform test on modifications.

• Deploy when required to support contract requirements when maintenance test flights are anticipated.

• Interpret meteorological data as it pertains to filing a flight plan for the navigational course of flight needed for a sortie and files a flight plan for all flights using authorized processes.

• Ensure proper documentation is chronicled.

• File flight plans for all flights using authorized navigational processes.

• Compute weight and balance logs for the aircraft being flown.

• Initiate and complete all military flight or maintenance forms to document maintenance test flight completion and discrepancies. 

• Communicate, troubleshoot, advise and work side by side with military pilots and technicians.

• Communicate, troubleshoot, advise and work side by side with military pilots and technicians.

• Ferry flights as assigned

• As qualified may perform as site safety specialist and/or additional duties safety officer functions.

• May be designate as a Foreign Object Elimination/Foreign Object Debris (FOE/FOD) Program Administrator.

• May support AS9100-AS9110 internal audits, corrective action requests, assist section, department, and/or program in developing plans to correct identified shortfalls.

• May assist with continual improvement initiatives.

• Must be capable of Aircraft Technical Inspection (TI) as additional duty.

  • Plan and conduct aircraft technical inspections.

  • Inspect power plant hot section, cold section and accessory modules.

  • Operate and inspect pneudraulic systems including landing gear.

  • Understand the fundamentals and inspection techniques of helicopter structural repairs.

  • Perform troubleshooting and analyze electrical/electronic systems.

  • Lectures, demonstrates, and practical exercises in inspection techniques, procedures, performance evaluation, and operational checks on the power plant, structure, and systems of helicopters powertrains.

  • Provide technical guidance to repairs performing aircraft and subsystem maintenance techniques and safety procedures.

  • Maintains technical library, inspect systems, subsystems, and components according to applicable technical publications and checklists before, during and after airplane maintenance and modifications.

  • Check and troubleshoot systems

  • Annotate records of required maintenance.

  • Evaluate operational readiness of aircraft and recommend corrective action.

  • Inspect crash-damaged aircraft and estimates time, parts and costs to repair.

  • Ensure compliance with aircraft configuration control, Army oil analysis program and test measuring and diagnostic calibration.

  • Evaluate maintenance operations and facilities for compliance with directives, technical manuals, work standards, safety procedures, and operational policies.

  • Performs maintenance trend analysis and applies production control, quality control and other maintenance management principles and procedures to aircraft maintenance operations.

• Perform other qualified duties as assigned

Minimum Requirements

• Completed military flight and applicable training courses as required IAW 95-20

• Must meet the qualification requirements of AR 95-20.

• Minimum of Ten (10) years of aviation maintenance experience required.

• Prefer a minimum of 1000 Hours of Pilot in Command time. 

• Be proficient in flying operations of the aircraft they are assigned (AH64).

• Satisfactorily completed a proficiency check within the previous 12 months.

• Successfully complete init