About This Role
Advanced Air, LLC is hiring a King Air 350 Check Pilot (Check Airman) in Hawthorne, California. The role trains, evaluates, mentors, and standardizes King Air 350 pilots while also serving as Pilot in Command during line operations supporting Essential Air Service routes and on-demand charter operations. Responsibilities include initial, recurrent, upgrade, remedial, proficiency, line, and route checks; debriefing and corrective-training recommendations; FAA and company SOP compliance; PIC and SIC operational duties; safety management; and support of FAA observations and audits. The position progresses through SIC and Company Ground Instructor duties, PIC and Flight Instructor duties, and ultimately PIC and Check Pilot duties, with average flight activity of 65 hours per month and a schedule involving flying days, nights away from base, bid days off, and on-call availability.
Duties & Responsibilities
- The King Air 350 Check Pilot (Check Airman) provides leadership within Flight Operations by training, evaluating, mentoring, and standardizing King Air 350 pilots while serving as PIC during line operations. Flying assignments support Advanced Air's Essential Air Service routes and on-demand charter operations. The position reports to the Chief Pilot and works with the Director of Training and Director of Operations.
- Check Pilot and training responsibilities include conducting initial, recurrent, upgrade, and remedial flight training
- administering proficiency, line, and route checks under Part 135
- evaluating systems knowledge, SOP compliance, CRM, decision-making, and overall pilot performance
- providing professional debriefs and recommending corrective training
- standardizing procedures, callouts, checklists, and profiles
- completing training and evaluation documentation accurately and on time
- mentoring Company Instructors
- and supporting FAA observations, audits, and standardization initiatives.
- PIC responsibilities include retaining final authority for safe aircraft operation under FAR 91.3, ensuring aircraft airworthiness and completion of required inspections, maintaining aircraft security, reviewing weather, NOTAMs, and operating procedures, complying with FAA regulations, Operations Specifications, and company SOPs, updating flight and duty records, and reporting maintenance discrepancies.
- SIC responsibilities include completing pre- and post-flight walk-around inspections, assisting the PIC during all phases of flight, assuming responsibility for passengers, crewmembers, cargo, and aircraft safety if the PIC is incapacitated, briefing the PIC on passenger pickup, drop-off, communications, catering, and other customer-service items, and taking primary operational responsibility for customer-service portions of each leg. The SIC must comply with Federal Aviation Regulations, the Company Operations Manual, Operations Specifications, SOPs, and company policies
- update flight and duty records
- determine eligibility for the next assignment
- report maintenance discrepancies
- identify, report, and mitigate hazards and quality issues through safety and quality systems
- and perform other duties or special projects assigned by the PIC. Safety and leadership duties include participating in the Safety Management System and promoting a strong safety culture through leadership and example.
What We Offer
What you Can Expect includes Instructor Pilot Base Pay of $65,000Check Pilot Base Pay of $115,00 to $178,546Pilot Year 1 Average Gross Compensation of $117,500.00Pilot Year 2 Average Gross Compensation of $136,000.00Pilot Year 3 Average Gross Compensation of $150,000.00and Pilot Year 4 Average Gross Compensation of $172,000.00. Flight crews can expect to average 65 flight hours a month, 15 flying days a month, and 8 to 12 nights away from base as the schedule allows. Pilots bid days off based on seniority 14 days in advance, generating a schedule of 10 meaningful hard days off a month. There are 13 schedule periods in a calendar year. Days listed as “On” make flight crews available to work for Advanced Airdays without assigned flying have a set On Call period requiring the crew to remain within approximately two hours of the airport and fit to fly, while Days Off do not require availability.Benefits include Competitive Salarya 401(k) plan with dollar-for-dollar employer match up to 4%100% Company Paid Health Insurance including Medical, Dental, Vision, and $15,000 in life insuranceKCM for personal travelDay Off Pay at 200% ($400 per HDO flown)an hourly bonus for flight hours over 65 in a month ($50 p/h 65+)$2.45 per diem for all hours associated with Flight Dutyand Flight/Travel Benefits with current contracts including Delta, Alaska, and Southwest. The posting's Salary Description is $65,000 - $178,546.
Requirements
- What We Are Looking For:
- High school diploma or GED.
- CFI, CFII, MEI Certificates, Preferred, but no required.
- Digital dexterity for aircraft preflight and post-flight.
- 1,000 hours total time
- 500 PIC
- 250 cross-country
- 100 Night
- 75 Instrument (50 actual)
- and 50 Multi-engine.
- High-level working knowledge of FAR 91, 61 and AIM Part Sections 4 & 5.
- Ability to work in confined spaces and to manipulate, push, pull, and lift heavy objects in excess of 150 lbs.
- Ability to climb onto and off of an airplane wing as part of the preflight, post-flight, or during an over wing emergency exit.
- Ability to execute flights of up to 4.5 hours up to a total flight time of 10 hours per day during a 14-hour duty period.
- Operate as an SIC and Company Ground Instructor till ready for PIC Upgrade
- operate as PIC and Flight Instructor till ready for Check Pilot Duties
- and operate as PIC and Check Pilot.
- The physical demands include frequent stooping, climbing, bending, kneeling, lifting a minimum of 50 lbs., and operating machinery with repetitive motions. The work environment includes outdoor work in all weather conditions and possible exposure on the airfield ramp to distracting or potentially hearing-damaging noise, fumes, dust, and loud noise. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Selection guidelines include a formal application, rating of education and experience, oral interviews, reference checks, and possible job-related tests.