F/A-18 Senior Instructor Pilot
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F/A-18 Senior Instructor Pilot Company: Boeing Aerospace Operations Job ID: 00000375676 Date Posted: 2024-04-04 Location: KWT - Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base, KWT, USA - Fort Walton Beach, FL Job Description Qualifications: Boeing Global Services is seeking a F/18 Senior Instructor Pilot located in Kuwait to provide Contractor Instructor Pilot Services to the Kuwait Air Force (KAF) as part of a Foreign Military Sales contract. This is a Long-Term Assignment to Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base, KWT for up to 4 years. Relocation/assignment benefits to the international location will be provided. Position Responsibilities:
- Provides flight, simulator, and academic instruction to KAF pilots in customer-owned F/A-18 aircraft.
- Conducts familiarization, qualification, upgrade, standardization, flight, and ground instruction in support of customer courses ranging from CAT I to advanced training, including air-to-air gunnery, air-to-ground strike, day/night in-flight refueling, and day/night low-level training.
- Maintains aircrew training materials and courseware.
- Assists the customer operations and training staff in development of aircrew instructional philosophy, syllabi, evaluation criteria, and approaches for standardizing training materials, delivery, and training standards.
- Performs as Subject Matter Expert for courseware maintenance support.
- Assists the KAF in building aircraft, employment, and weapons briefings to support KAF continuation training.
- Establishes qualifications and training standards.
- Primary training site is at Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base in Kuwait.
- Deploys to other sites in and out of the customer country at customer discretion to support syllabus training. Accompanies senior customer representatives to international F/A-18 related conferences at customer discretion.
- International travel may be required to attend NATOPs and safety related conferences on behalf of the customer.
- Job requires completion of appropriate KAF F/A-18 requalification training if not current in the aircraft, and graduation from the KAF Instructor under Training syllabus.
- Job requires compliance with NATOPs 3710.7U standards including recurring swim physiology and hypoxia training. Must meet F/A-18 NATOPS/OPNAVINST 3710.7U (section 8.3.2.18) Anthropometric Requirements for duty in an ejection seat aircraft.
- Pilot wings attained through a US Navy, Marine Corps, USAF or other approved undergraduate pilot training program
- US Navy or Marine Corps F/A-18 qualification training or other approved fighter program
- Minimum of 800 hours Pilot-In-Command and/or Instructor Pilot time in the F/A-18 aircraft or other approved fighter aircraft
- Experience flying the F/A-18 aircraft or other approved fighter aircraft within the last 36 months
- A combination of F/A-18C and F/A-18E Super Hornet experience
- F/A-18 Fleet Replacement Squadron Instructor Pilot
- F/A-18 Division Lead
- Top Gun Weapons and Tactics Instructor
- AMRAAM Instructor
- Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System Instructor
- Top Secret clearance
- Candidate must be able to obtain a work visa, depending on requirements of the country
- Candidate must be able to meet the cultural requirements of the country, as applicable
- Employment is contingent on the candidate’s ability to satisfy all labor and immigration formalities of the country
- English - E-Verify (English)
- Spanish -E-Verify (Spanish)
- English - Right to Work(English)
- Spanish - Right to Work(Spanish)
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