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Warbird and Aerobatic Instructor Pilot Job Opening

Mon Jun 01, 2009 4:55 pm

Gauntlet Warbirds is looking to add another full time contract instructor pilot (IP) to our staff. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and able to work five days a week including Saturday and Sunday. You must love aviation and instructing. All IPs will start instructing in the Decathlon with rapid advancement opportunities into the Extra 300, T-6, L-29 and L-39. Pay is $75 per hour for all flight and ground instruction.


Minimum Requirements
* 500 hours total flight time
* 100 hours dual given
* 30 hours of tailwheel time
* Basic aerobatic experience
* Current FAA CFI for Airplane, Single Engine
* Current FAA Second Class Medical
* Bachelor’s degree


Preferred Qualifications
* 1,000 hours total flight time
* 500 hours dual given
* Aerobatic competition experience
* Bachelor’s degree in science, math, or engineering


Contact:

Send resume to

Greg Morris
greg@gauntletwarbirds.com

Mon Jun 01, 2009 5:01 pm

BRAVO!!!!! .... I hope a WIXer who meets your criteria and is in need of a job will fill a wonderful position ... A great thing in a crappy economy ... Congrats to the lucky person ... :D :D

Mon Jun 01, 2009 5:42 pm

You mean I only need to pay them $75.00 an hour for such a great job! Where do I sign up!

I am slightly qualified-
85 hours ASEl certificated; A&P Certificated; Seen a tailwheel aircraft many times; can identify instruments; aerobatics consist of standard rate turns around a point, stalls, and landings; know several CFI & CFIIs; medical due; I am a bachelor; have AA, AS, and others; can add 2+2...

Am I Qualified, er what?

Robbie
(wishing I had a shot. I do, don't I?)

Re: Warbird and Aerobatic Instructor Pilot Job Opening

Mon Jun 01, 2009 6:20 pm

Can that wait about 6 months! Oh, and move to south Texas? Too bad. Sounds like a really nice deal.

Ryan

if I didn't have 4 years left..

Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:21 pm

...and it wasn't in TEXAS.... :roll:

Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:39 pm

After hearing about several friends of mine who lost their jobs recently, I salute these guys for offering a chance to "EMPLOY" someone who has a passion for flying warbirds in the economy we now have to endure ... I would suggest anyone here who has a job to give support. It's a great thing to see this offer to you guys who care about warbirds .... This is a vary rare thing in today's world ... take it seriously!!! ... and take it from someone who knows, If you have to move for a while to be employed, be grateful ....

Tue Jun 02, 2009 3:23 am

A splendid opportunity for some lucky person, but I wonder why they insist on a bachelors degree?

Tue Jun 02, 2009 3:38 am

Glyn wrote:why they insist on a bachelors degree?


Paper often sets the baseline pay for many jobs. HR typically come up with silly prereqs like that though. Also, if it's a learning institution, the instructor tends to have to have at least an equivalent education level to what they are teaching. I wish whoever goes for the job the best of luck. :)

Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:14 am

Why a degree? Kind of like having to be an officer to be a pilot.....theoretically shows an ability to learn, stay with a program, blah, blah, blah.... :wink:

Looks like a great job for someone.

Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:18 pm

Holedigger wrote:Why a degree? Kind of like having to be an officer to be a pilot.....theoretically shows an ability to learn, stay with a program, blah, blah, blah.... :wink:

Looks like a great job for someone.


I was a commissioned pilot in the RAF (rather a long time ago, admittedly) and I can assure you that I never had a degree. Pilots then hardly ever did.

sadly....

Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:03 pm

Holedigger wrote:Why a degree? Kind of like having to be an officer to be a pilot.....theoretically shows an ability to learn, stay with a program, blah, blah, blah.... :wink:

Looks like a great job for someone.


we have become a nation of WORDS not DEEDS. WWII brought out the very best (and worst) in man. words didnt matter as much because we DID things we were heros etc etc. then the scientists changed all the rules. What became important was the little letters after your name not the things you did heroic and otherwise.

Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:24 pm

Glyn wrote:I was a commissioned pilot in the RAF (rather a long time ago, admittedly) and I can assure you that I never had a degree. Pilots then hardly ever did.


I currently fit that category. If I wanted to stay debt free I had to choose between becoming a pilot or doing some other form of schooling. Flying won.
Can't say that I'm sorry about that right now. Still debt free while some of my buddies are rather precarious in this economy.

Ryan

Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:38 pm

I should be in Chicago this Thursday, THANK YOU WIX!!! :supz:
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