Maintenance Test Pilot (AH-64 D/E) JBLM, WA

The Maintenance Test Pilot (AH-64 D/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:

• High School Diploma or GED Equivalent
• 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 initially and annually thereafter an Army or FAA Class II flight physical.
• Possess an instrument rating on their FAA Commercial Certificates.
• Possess a current valid Army or FAA Class II Medical Certificate.
• Successfully complet