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Dash 8 Training & Checking Captain (Direct Entry) – Surveillance Operations
✈️ Dash 8 Training & Checking Captain (Direct Entry) – Surveillance Operations
Join a mission-focused team operating a highly modified Dash 8—integrating some of the most advanced technology ever fitted to a civil surveillance platform. As a Training & Checking Captain, you’ll lead from the front, elevate pilot performance in the aircraft and simulator, and help ensure every mission is safe, precise, and successful. NTR welcome—full type training provided.
🧭 The Mission
In a dynamic, multi-disciplinary environment, you will command and deliver flight crew training on a state-of-the-art Dash 8 surveillance aircraft. As an integral member of the training and checking team, you’ll shape the professional development of Dash 8 pilots through rigorous training and assessment in both the aircraft and simulator. Your leadership, decisiveness, and professionalism will set the tone for your crew and underpin mission success.
🧰 What You’ll Do
- Command and deliver flight crew training on a highly modified Dash 8 surveillance platform with cutting-edge systems.
- Conduct training and checking activities in the aircraft and/or simulator, ensuring standards and currency.
- Provide clear leadership to the crew—planning, briefing, executing, and debriefing missions to the highest professional standard.
- Coach, mentor, and assess pilots, fostering a culture of safety, discipline, and continuous improvement.
- Uphold compliance with company, regulatory, and operational frameworks across training and mission activities.
🌟 Why This Role
- Operate on one of the most advanced civil surveillance platforms in the world.
- Make direct impact as a captain, instructor, and mentor within a high-performance, mission-driven team.
- Grow your instructor career—training provided to obtain additional instructor and examiner qualifications.
- Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from purposeful, technically challenging operations.
🧾 Minimum Requirements
- PIC time: 1000 hours
- Flight time notes: 1000 hours PIC in multi-crew operations on type-rated aeroplanes
- Instructor credential: Australian Flight or Simulator Instructor Rating
- Simulator roles: Type rating training activity endorsement on any multi-crew type-rated type
- Licence: ATPL (CASA)
- Medical: Class 1
- Language: ICAO ELP Level 4 or higher
- Type rating: Not required (training provided)
🧩 Additional Requirements
- Travel: Current passport
- Security: Eligibility for an ASIC and Australian government security clearances
📨 How to Apply
Ready to lead, instruct, and make every mission count? Submit your application with a CV, licence/medical details, and a summary of your logbook. Suitable candidates will be invited to the selection process and provided training towards additional instructor and examiner qualifications.