Diamond Aircraft Co.
 

Does anybody know what these guys look for in hiring production test pilot's? I hear they have plants over here, and in the Uk.

Cheers

Not in the UK, Diamond are located in Canada and Austria. It's likely that to work in Austria you'd need citizenship of an EU country.

I applied for a very interesting looking FTE job there working on the DA42 a couple of years ago. Regrettably they didn't even have the courtesy to acknowledge it - so no idea I'm afraid.

That said, it's likely for a company in that area for FT to be FTE driven, with a small number of developmental test pilots also doing what production test flying is needed to keep their hours up - but that's just informed guesswork, I don't actually know how they work.

Presumably you've looked at their website?

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Production test pilots
 

I don't know about Diamond, but in the company I work for we have 4 production test pilots for a production rate of 1 airplane per day. The minimum experience is 1000 h total time, A&P and/or instructor rating beneficial, no prior flight test experience required, but beneficial. Experimental flight test is separate. At the moment we don't need any more production test pilots.