Line Manager: Training Director (TD) and Training Assistant Director (TAD)
Description: The IVAO Headquarters Pilots Group is a group of highly active and skilled pilots, whose task is to provide enough traffic or to perform difficult operations when a controller exam takes place. Both HPM and HPAs are responsible for the daily management of the group activities.
HQ Pilots Manager (HPM)
- Ensure that the group's mission, dynamics, projects and objectives are being accomplished.
- Manage the HQ Pilots Group requests.
- Constantly assess the activity level of the group.
- Know the standards of all ATC exams including traffic quotas.
- Liaise with the divisional TC/TAC to head-hunt members with good flying skills for possible recruitment.
- Facilitate and host regular team meetings within the management team (HPM/HPA) to review activities including pilots’ availability and discuss possible improvements at least 4 times a year.
- Manage, in coordination with the TD/TAD, the recruitment of new pilots for the HQ Pilots Group.
- Perform entry interviews for new HQ Pilots candidates.
- Ensure the constant availability of the pilots during the exams.
- Ensure that HQ Pilots do not penalise any exam.
- Have a high level of availability and guarantee to respond to messages regarding the HQ Pilots Group within 48 hours.
- Coordinate HPAx activity, especially on exams.
- Manage the staffing levels within the HQ Pilots team.
- Manage HQ Pilots badges and HQ Pilots exam awards.
HQ Pilots Advisors (HPAx)
- Assist the HPM in managing HQ Pilots Group requests.
- Know the standards of all ATC exams including traffic quotas.
- Support the HPM in assessing the activity level of the group.
- Be proactive in all communication media (eg. email, discord, forum, etc.), including responding to requests for and from the HQ Pilots Group.
- Have a high level of availability to fly during training and exam sessions.
- Comply with the minimum flight quota established by the internal guidelines.
- Assume the role of session coordinator during the exams, the principle of which is to be in contact with all the pilots of the group during a session, coordinate the requests of the examiner if needed and report any difficulties encountered to the HPM.
- Inform division mentors about any issues identified during an exam session.
- Manage Pilot Exam awards in coordination with the HPM.
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