Description
Ensures the safe and efficient conduct of assigned flights; Note: The Pilot-in-Command will not be subject to coercion by any company departmental managers or customers. Good judgment shall prevail at all times.
2. Directs activities and ensures that flight crew members understand fully and completely what duties they are expected to perform.
3. Participates in the Safety Management System.
Duties:
1. Ensures that the aircraft is airworthy and registered, and all required documentation is onboard the aircraft.
2. Checks weather and all applicable NOTAMs where available, and determines fuel, oil, and oxygen requirements.
3. Determines the aircraft weight and balance.
4. Ensures databases are current.
5. Ensures iPads are updated and adequately charged for the assigned flight.
6. Ensures that all flight planning requirements have been met.
7. Ensures that aircraft crewmembers have valid certificates, Medical Certificates, passports and visas, when required.
8. Ensures that the flight will not be commenced if a flight crewmember is incapacitated from performing duties by any cause such as injury, sickness, fatigue, or the effects of any psychoactive substance.
9. Ensures that the flight will not be continued beyond the nearest suitable airport when flight crewmembers’ capacity to perform functions is significantly reduced by impairment of faculties from causes such as fatigue, sickness, or lack of oxygen.
10. Confirms any nonstandard environmental rules and procedures at the intended departure and destination airports.
11. Completes an aircraft preflight inspection before each departure.Provides the Passenger Safety Briefing to the passengers.
12. Ensures food safety.
13. Operates the aircraft per the Flight Department Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and checklists, and within aircraft limitations.
14. Continually monitors the amount of usable fuel to ensure a safe landing with appropriate fuel reserves and communicates with ATC during abnormal situations.
15. Ensures compliance with customs, immigration, and cabotage laws.
16. Completes all post flight duties, including notifying the Company of deviations to any planned itinerary, schedule, or overnight location.
17. Records flight times and aircraft defects.
18. Reports all known or suspected FAA violations or incidents to the Chief Pilot as soon as practical.
19. Reports any act of unlawful interference to the FAA or State (Mandatory Occurrence Report), as appropriate, and to the designated local authority.
20. As soon as possible, reports to the appropriate ATC facility any hazardous weather or flight conditions encountered that are likely to affect the safety of other aircraft.
21. In the event of an accident / incident, preserves flight and cockpit voice recorder data.
22. Notifies the appropriate authority, by the quickest available means, of any accident involving the aircraft (except where the PIC is incapacitated, when it will become the responsibility of the Chief Pilot or senior flight crewmember).
23. Assumes any duties delegated by the Chief Pilot
24. Flies the aircraft per the directions of the PIC.
25. Performs takeoffs and landings under the authority of the PIC.