About This Role
LIFT Academy — the flight training academy operated by Republic Airways — is hiring a Chief Flight Instructor to lead its instructor corps. The role directs flight instructors, department managers, and administrative team members while maintaining a culture of safety, efficiency, and operational excellence. The Chief Flight Instructor is responsible for the quality and standardization of flight training across LIFT's network of training campuses, working with the student advisory team to drive successful program outcomes, and personally performing flight instructor duties under the FAA-approved Training Course Outline. This is an FAA Part 141 chief instructor position (14 CFR 141.35).
Duties & Responsibilities
- Directs flight instructors, department managers, and administrative team members while maintaining a culture of safety, efficiency, and operational excellence.
- Ensures the quality and standardization of flight training operations across the LIFT Academy network of training campuses.
- Works alongside the student advisory team to ensure efficient training and drive successful program outcomes for students.
- Performs flight instructor duties authorized by the Federal Aviation Regulations in accordance with the approved Training Course Outline.
- Coaches, mentors, develops, and disciplines reporting associates, and ensures that course standards, training requirements, and objectives are met by all assigned students as required by the Training Course Outline.
- Delegates tasks and projects to team members and monitors their successful, on-time, on-budget completion.
- Recommends and develops curriculum and courseware improvements when appropriate, and attends administrative, standardization, in-service training, and instructor development meetings as assigned.
Requirements
- Applicants must hold an FAA flight instructor certificate covering airplane single-engine land, airplane multi-engine land, and instrument. They must meet the requirements for a chief instructor under 14 CFR 141.35, which include: at least 2,000 hours as pilot in command
- at least 100 hours of flight time under actual or simulated instrument conditions
- flight training experience — acquired as a certificated flight instructor and/or as an instructor in a military pilot flight training program — of at least 3 years and a total of 1,000 flight hours, OR 1,500 flight hours
- and instrument flight instructor experience — as a certificated flight instructor-instrument and/or a military flight training instructor — of at least 2 years and a total of 250 flight hours, OR 400 flight hours. Candidates must be able to successfully complete initial and ongoing proficiency checks with the FAA in accordance with 14 CFR 141.35 and 141.79, and must hold a current FAA First Class Medical Certificate. The role also requires knowledge of effective instructional technique in the classroom and in flight, aircraft piloting skills including the ability to perform required flight maneuvers and procedures, knowledge of the relevant Federal Aviation Regulations and related administrative and operational procedures, and strong customer service skills
Preferred Qualifications
- experience as a people-leader managing and coaching direct reports in an operations-focused, fast-paced environment
- G1000 experience
- and DA40 NG and/or DA42-VI experience.