SUPERVISORY AIRPLANE FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR

Air Reserve Technician Officer Position

Air Reserve Technicians are full-time civilian employees who are also members of the Air Force Reserve unit in which they are employed. In addition to their civilian assignments, they are assigned to equivalent positions in the Reserve organization with a Reserve military rank or grade. Appointee's civilian assignments will consist of the following duties.

Responsibilities : The primary purpose of this position is as an Air Reserve Technician (ART) officer position to serve as Operations Group Commander / Senior ART and as such, manage the flight operations function on a daily basis. Duties include :

• Planning, organizing, and overseeing the activities of the operations organization.
• Directing, coordinating, and overseeing work through subordinate supervisors.
• Representing the Operations Group with a variety of installation and functional area organizations.
• Analyzing higher headquarters directives, accident reports, and mission readiness reports.
• May perform duties as a flight instructor or flight examiner as deemed appropriate by the Commander.

Requirements : In order to qualify, you must meet the specialized experience requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Supplement to Qualification Standards for Air Reserve Technicians (ART), approved August 2017.

Specialized Experience : Three years of progressively responsible experience in a flying component of the US military establishment in assignments that normally would qualify for progression into the position of Wing Operations and Training Officer or its equivalent. This experience must have included assignments wherein the applicant was required to have demonstrated ability to formulate plans and policies pertaining to operation and training of search / rescue, tanker, transport, fighter, specials operations, bomber, or reconnaissance units; operation of flying training schools; or aircraft performance programs. At least one year of specialized experience must have been of a level of difficulty and responsibility comparable to that of the GS-13 in the Federal service.

Substitution : Completion of Air Force pilot or navigator training or equivalent training in other US military establishments for heavier-than-air aircraft may be substituted for one year of general experience. Satisfactory completion of Air War College, Air Command and Staff College, or equivalent in another of the US military establishments, may be substituted for one year of specialized experience. Each year of service in a Reserve component of the US military establishment in assignments that normally would result in progression into the position of Aircraft Operations Officer, and in which the flying requirements specialized by Air Force regulation have been met, may be credited for three months of general or specialized experience. The substitution may not be made for periods of Reserve service which occurred concurrently with periods of fulltime experience for which credit is assigned.

Certification : Must hold or qualify for an USAF Navigator rating and hold a valid aviation service aeronautical order. Instructor Qualified : Individuals are required to submit AF Form 8 Certificate of Aircrew Qualification or AF Form 942 Record of Evaluation from their Flight Evaluation Folder or equivalent sister service Record of Instructor Evaluation. Minimum Instrument Hours Required : Applicants must have logged 1,500 or more total flying time as a Pilot (accumulation of primary, secondary time, instructor time, evaluator time, student, simulator and other US Military and Foreign time). Must be Instructor Qualified in MDS. Must have actively flown military aircraft within the past eight (8) years.