What is the typical route most pilots take to gaining employment with them?
I understand the criteria is set pretty high with regards to experience and can imagine selection is fierce.
Do most seek pastures new after a duration within the airlines/military?
The minimum requirements are as follows;
- Current command instrument rating (multi-engine) with two renewals
- 2000 hours as pilot-in-command
- 1000 hours as pilot-in-command of a multi-engined aircraft
- 200 hours night operations as pilot-in-command
- Pilots with turbo-prop experience preferred
- A sound work ethic
- Demonstrable maturity and stability of employment
- Excellent communication skills
- A philosophy sympathetic to the ideals of the RFDS
- An empathy for the bush and its people
And desirable requirements are;
- Current Australian Air Transport Pilot Licence
- 5000 hours as Pilot-in-Command
- 3000 hours as Pilot-in-Command of a multi-engined aircraft
- 500 hours as Pilot-in-Command at night
- 2000 hours as Pilot-in-Command of a turbo-prop or turbo-jet aircraft
- Grade One Instructor Rating (Multi-engine) or military equivalent
- Check Pilot Experience within a CAR 217 Organisation
- Minimum eight Instrument Rating Renewals completed
- Demonstrated willingness to reside within a remote area
- Pilots with turbo-prop experience preferred
Seems they require some pretty experienced of pilots, which is what you'd expect i guess. If only the airlines were this selective.
I ask purely out of interest. So just to advise, i do not see this as an easy way to gain hours to bulk up my cv, in fact it seems quite the contrary.
Thanks.
WQ.