Job Description
The **CH47- Maintenance Test Pilot** utilizes flight test techniques to perform test flights of aircraft to measure performance and handling to determine airworthiness following maintenance or modifications.
+ Perform test flights and demonstrating aircraft proficiency upon completion of aircraft maintenance or modifications on aircraft.
+ Interpret meteorological data as it pertains to filing a flight plan for the navigational course of flight needed for a mission or sortie.
+ File flight plans for all flights using authorized navigational processes.
+ Compute weight and balance logs for the aircraft being flown.
+ Initiate and complete all military flight or maintenance forms to document maintenance test flight completion and discrepancies.
+ Communicate, troubleshoot, advise and work side by side with military pilots and technicians.
+ Determine in accordance with publications and procedures the airworthiness of aircraft prior to release for flight.
+...
+ Perform test flights and demonstrating aircraft proficiency upon completion of aircraft maintenance or modifications on aircraft.
+ Interpret meteorological data as it pertains to filing a flight plan for the navigational course of flight needed for a mission or sortie.
+ File flight plans for all flights using authorized navigational processes.
+ Compute weight and balance logs for the aircraft being flown.
+ Initiate and complete all military flight or maintenance forms to document maintenance test flight completion and discrepancies.
+ Communicate, troubleshoot, advise and work side by side with military pilots and technicians.
+ Determine in accordance with publications and procedures the airworthiness of aircraft prior to release for flight.
+...