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Aviation Safety Inspector (GA Operations Instructor)
Federal Aviation Administration · Posted today
Hybrid Tutuila Island, AS $107K – $140K Apply by Oct 5, 2026 Aviation Safety ISTJ OperationsEducation
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Conducts training programs for flight standards inspectors and specialists concerning policies and procedures, and specialized training on aircraft and courses covering airworthiness, surveillance, and certification of airmen, agencies, and general aviation.
What You'll Do
- →The instructor must hold an airline transport pilot certificate or hold a commercial pilot certificate with multi-engine land and instrument ratings and be eligible for an airline transport pilot certificate.
- →Use only approved methods, procedures and techniques in job functions and in operation of aircraft and stresses standardization of job functions.
- →Conducts ground school on aircraft systems in support of flight units.
- →Maintains a high level of pilot proficiency in aircraft.
- →Apply the latest methods and techniques of instruction obtained through attendance at formal instructor training courses and seminars.
- →Conduct courses of indoctrination for aviation safety inspectors and other non-FAA students.
- →Presents an intensive study of job tasks the students will be required to perform daily as an inspector in a Flight Standards District Office.
- →Concurrently with each job task, analyzes and interprets all applicable regulatory material.
- →May be assigned as course or project manager, team leader, or team member as the job tasks dictate.
- →Recommends to the supervisor improvements and revisions to existing approved courses and the overall training program.
- →Recommends to the supervisor improvements and revisions to existing approved courses and the overall training program.
- →Familiarize students with the latest regulations and requirements affecting the aviation safety inspector's job functions.
- →Standardizes the inspector's performance, proficiency and timing relative to compliance with existing job functions procedures.
- →Evaluates and reports the capabilities and performance of each student.
Requirements
- ✓We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.
- ✓KSA Information: As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements.
- ✓Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA.
- ✓In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA, in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA.
- ✓Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability.
- ✓Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided.
- ✓Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate.
- ✓Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA), Demonstrated Abilities and Other Factors listed in the announcement.
- ✓Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for consideration.
Personality Fit
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