About This Role
Chief Flight Instructor for the Airbus training centre in New Delhi, India. Manages the local flight-instructor standardization team, ensures instructors meet Airbus Training competency standards, and acts as standardization trainer and evaluator, reporting to the CFI of the Worldwide Airbus ATO. Keeps proficiency as Type III instructor and examiner, devoting at least 10% of working time to flying activities and up to 10% to customer simulator sessions as an instructor. Permanent full-time professional role at AIRBUS SAS.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Manages the local standardization team.
- Ensures that flight instructors meet the competency requirements as defined in ”Airbus Training” standards.
- Ensures that flight instructor relevant training and/or standardization forms are completed in accordance with the applicable procedures.
- Proposes specific training as per A60.4 when applicable.
- Acts as standardization trainer and evaluator.
- Provides feedback and support to the continuous improvement of the Airbus Flight Crew Training Operations Manual – Personnel Training – A60.4.
- Reports to the CFI of the Worldwide ATO in regards to the delegation as local Chief Flight Instructor.
- Participates to worldwide and regional standardization workshops Participates to the Worldwide ATO Core Team Disseminates relevant information to the flight instructors.
- Provides input to the flight instructor technical booklet.
- Organizes and runs local Notice Observations (NO) and No Notice Observations (NNO) Participates in the Advanced Flight Instructor Standardization Council on request.
- Participates in working groups as defined by the CFI of the Worldwide Airbus ATO.
- Provides support to other training centers on request of the CFI of the Worldwide Airbus ATO.
- Provides the monthly feedback for the Worldwide ATO List of Instructors.
- Provides support to the development and execution of the recurrent training & checking program.
- Promotes Airbus Flight Training Reference.
- Ensure local standardizer well-being.
- Keeps proficiency as Type III instructor and examiner and provides at least 10% of her/his working time to perform flying activities.
- Allocate up to 10% of his/her working time to perform customer simulator sessions as an instructor (production).
- Continually promoting the safety policy to all personnel and taking part in SMS initiatives.
- Convening and documenting all interviews and follow-up action required in case of sub-standard performance.
- Support the local Head of Training for the compliance with Airbus requirements and internal rules.
- Controls and validates the competency management plan of the local instructors of the training center in coordination with the local Competence Manager.
Requirements
- TRI TRE pre-requisites : Hold a valid EASA licence, with Airbus FBW Type Rating and TRl/r and LIFUS approval on the relevant aircraft type (A320/A330/A350 - FBW) Hold a valid Medical Class 1 without restriction to fly as Captain.
- Fluent in English Hold or have held a Low Visibility Operations (LVO) qualification Hold or have held an Extended Range Operations for Two-Engine Aeroplane (ETOPS) qualification A minimum of 5 000 hours as Pilot A minimum of 3 000 hours on Jet Large aircraft above 50t MTOW A minimum of 1 000 hours as Captain on Airbus Aircraft A minimum of 500 hours instructor experience in Full Flight Simulator (FFS) on large aircraft, A minimum of 500 hours experience as Captain assigned to conduct Line Flying Under Supervision (LIFUS)/IOE.
- Minimum of five years commercial aviation experience as pilot on FAR 25 / CS 25 or FAR 23 / CS 23 aircrafts in Multi Pilot Operation (MPO), preferably on Airbus Aircraft.
- Airbus Standardizer qualification is a plus Airline Management background is a plus