About This Role
GreyBird Pilot Academy is seeking a Chief Flight Instructor to join its ATO Core Team in Aarhus. The CFI has overall responsibility for quality, standardisation and compliance across the flight and simulator training delivered by the instructor team, reports directly to the Head of Training, and helps shape training direction as the academy expands across Europe. The role combines instructor supervision, training planning, instructor recruitment and development, standards enforcement, regulatory compliance, base assessment, and maintenance of training materials and operations manuals. GreyBird offers decision-making authority, an international working environment, an EASA-approved framework, and access to a modern and growing Tecnam fleet.
Duties & Responsibilities
- The Chief Flight Instructor is responsible for standardisation, supervision, and training planning for the entire instructor team
- developing and enforcing standard operating procedures for flight training
- ensuring that instructors hold valid licences, certificates, and competencies
- recruiting new instructors
- guiding, mentoring, and providing recurrent training for existing instructors
- assessing new bases as GreyBird expands into additional countries
- updating training materials and operations manuals on the SmartBird platform
- and participating in ATO and management meetings to help set the direction for training.
What We Offer
The role provides real decision-making authority over training quality and standards in a growing international organisation, a direct reporting line to the Head of Training with close ties to management, an established ATO with a clear EASA-approved framework, access to a modern and growing fleet, and an international working environment with colleagues and instructors from several countries.Relocation assistance will be provided.
Requirements
- The Chief Flight Instructor is a nominated post under EASA Part-ORA (ORA.ATO.210) and must hold the highest pilot licence together with at least one instructor certificate relevant to the courses offered.
- Applicants must hold either a CPL(A) or ATPL(A), an FI(A) instructor certificate, and at least 1,000 hours as PIC, including at least 500 hours of instructional flying.
- The posting notes that industry practice is typically 1,500+ hours and that additional experience is advantageous.
- Additional CRI(A) and IRI(A) instructor certificates are considered an advantage, as is experience leading, standardising, or developing other instructors.
- Fluent spoken and written English is required.