Fly and navigate aircraft, control and direct air traffic to ensure the safe and efficient operation of aircraft in flight and on the ground.
This occupation group covers Air Transport Professionals not elsewhere classified.
Occupation description
Fly and navigate aircraft, control and direct air traffic to ensure the safe and efficient operation of aircraft in flight and on the ground.
This occupation group covers Air Transport Professionals not elsewhere classified.
Occupations considered suitable under this ANZSCO code:
- Aircraft Navigator
- Airworthiness Inspector
- Balloonist
- Flight Engineer Inspector
Air Transport Professionals nec is a VETASSESS Group B occupation
This occupation requires a qualification assessed as comparable to the educational level of an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Bachelor degree or higher.
Applicants must have fulfilled at least one of the following four criteria (1–4):
* Additional qualifications in a highly relevant field of study include those comparable to the following levels:
- AQF Diploma
- AQF Advanced Diploma
- AQF Associate Degree or
- AQF Graduate Diploma
*** Bachelor degree or higher degree includes:
- AQF Master Degree or
- AQF Doctoral Degree
** Highly relevant paid employment duration (20 hours or more per week)
1–3
minimum years of employment highly relevant to the nominated occupation, completed at an appropriate skill level in the five years before the date of application for a Skills Assessment.
4
minimum 6 years of relevant employment required – five years of relevant employment (can be outside the last 5-year period) in addition to at least one year of highly relevant employment within the last five years before applying.
*If employment is prior to the completion of the qualification at the required level, an applicant must have at least one year of highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level within the last five years. The remaining five years of pre-qualifying period may be within the last ten years. A positive assessment of both qualification level and employment duration is required for a positive Skills Assessment outcome.
Qualification & Employment Criteria
Qualification
This occupation requires a qualification assessed as comparable to the education level of an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Bachelor degree or higher degree and in a field highly relevant to the nominated occupation.
Flight crew training prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to the flying and/or navigation of commercial passenger and cargo, agricultural, public service, corporate and rescue fixed wing aircraft.
Employment Criteria
Highly relevant tasks include, but are not limited to:
- Inspects aircraft documents regarding operational status of aircraft
- Completes cockpit preparations and external inspections to determine whether aircraft are acceptable for flight
- Operates aircraft engines and systems in accordance with flight manuals, manages fuel-feed systems and computes fuel consumption and jettison
- Monitors aircraft mechanical performance and reports on mechanical condition
- Monitors communications to maintain awareness of altimetry and aircraft flight paths
- Maintains flight logs concerning operational data, periodical instrument readings and flight path comparisons
- Reads normal and emergency checklists and alternate procedures when required
- Initiates emergency procedures for aircraft engines systems in coordination with pilots or under captains' instructions
- May service aircraft and certify airworthiness if appropriately licensed, where ground staff are not available
- Assists the pilot with communications to the cabin crew and to air traffic control.
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