They are advertising for ME Instructors because they can’t keep the ones they have......
No the aircraft have not flown.
They have interviewed a lot of people for the chief pilot role including candidates with both Phenom experience and civil Senior ATO Training management experience. What they mean by civilian equivalent is an Air Force A2 Wing Commander that’s just leaving the Air Force and therefor a civilian.......
Although I understand that the preferred candidate has now very wisely withdrawn from the running. Not suggesting for a moment that they were just playing the HR process to demonstrate they were following governance for a moment......
I mean what Wing Commander would jump ship to run a team of 4 civvie Instructors?
The other thing they badly mismanaged for the civilian guys was expecting them to give up civilian qualifications that were hard won in order to operate under some sort of log book sign off and an assurance they were legal to fly........