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Aviation Expert/Pilot positions as a Federal Civil Service Career GS-12 with DAF

ChuckMK23

ChuckMK23

Your Average GS - Back From Furlough!
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Fellow A-Dubs.

The Federal Civilian Hiring Freeze is thankfully a thing of the past. My organization is beginning to hire some key positions. I've been in my role for 6 years now and can say squarely its been the best job I have ever had.

So, if you have a General Aviation background, hold a COMM ASEL pilot rating and a SECOND class medical, and are a graduate of a military pilot training program (helo, fixed wing, tilt rotor, does not matter) and are no longer affiliated with the Guard or Reserves - this could be for you.

www.usajobs.gov

REGIONAL PLANNING ANALYST

Click on "Learn more about this agency" button below to view Eligibilities being considered and other IMPORTANT information.
www.usajobs.gov

www.usajobs.gov

REGIONAL PLANNING ANALYST

Click on "Learn more about this agency" button below to view Eligibilities being considered and other IMPORTANT information.
www.usajobs.gov

Other locations are pending.

If you have questions or want to chat about the job, let me know. PM is fine.

Great job for folks that maybe are burned out from airline life - or newly separated from AD or Reserves and don't yet want to pursue a 135 or airline flying gig. In addition to flying and program management/ops/grant management oversight duties, the position manages teams of AF Reservists - mostly O-4 to O-6 airline guys. Scheduling their drill periods and AT. (and listening to a lot of whine and cheese that comes with Reservists! :) )

You can make a 20 career with full Federal pension and Federal Employee Health Benefits. Earn retirement pension with as little as 5 years service.The stability of Federal Civil Service and associated job protections are indeed still a thing.

Oh and fly as much as you want and have access to high performance GA aircraft to use as your official government transportation or for proficiency.

V/r

Chuck
 
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What kind of flying missions are we talking?
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For the AF as a GS, moving yourself around in support of your job duties. Sometimes shuttling Reservists around. Then flying your quarterly/annual proficiency sorties VFR, IFR, Night, etc. I fly between 150 - 200 hours of PIC per year - mostly solo. C182 and Turbo C-206.

The CAP volunteers fly a variety of missions as the AF AUX in a Title 10 Status. Acting as a TOI for TFR defense exercises with ANG, to doing Low Level Route Surveys, to escorting MQ-9's through the NAS to special use airspace, to Southern Border FLIR ops, to SAR and drawing pretty magenta lines for lost things, to aerial imagery in support of FEMA or state ES agencies in Disaster Response, to doing JTAC training for Marines using MX-15, etc etc. As a GS I function as OPSO to coordinate and liaison the above. Write/edit ops plans, create lots of power-point, get funding squared away, etc.
 
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ChuckMK23 said:
Fellow A-Dubs.

The Federal Civilian Hiring Freeze is thankfully a thing of the past. My organization is beginning to hire some key positions. I've been in my role for 6 years now and can say squarely its been the best job I have ever had.

So, if you have a General Aviation background, hold a COMM ASEL pilot rating and a SECOND class medical, and are a graduate of a military pilot training program (helo, fixed wing, tilt rotor, does not matter) and are no longer affiliated with the Guard or Reserves - this could be for you.

www.usajobs.gov

REGIONAL PLANNING ANALYST

Click on "Learn more about this agency" button below to view Eligibilities being considered and other IMPORTANT information.
www.usajobs.gov

www.usajobs.gov

REGIONAL PLANNING ANALYST

Click on "Learn more about this agency" button below to view Eligibilities being considered and other IMPORTANT information.
www.usajobs.gov

Other locations are pending.

If you have questions or want to chat about the job, let me know. PM is fine.

Great job for folks that maybe are burned out from airline life - or newly separated from AD or Reserves and don't yet want to pursue a 135 or airline flying gig. In addition to flying and program management/ops/grant management oversight duties, the position manages teams of AF Reservists - mostly O-4 to O-6 airline guys. Scheduling their drill periods and AT. (and listening to a lot of whine and cheese that comes with Reservists! :) )

You can make a 20 career with full Federal pension and Federal Employee Health Benefits. Earn retirement pension with as little as 5 years service.The stability of Federal Civil Service and associated job protections are indeed still a thing.

Oh and fly as much as you want and have access to high performance GA aircraft to use as your official government transportation or for proficiency.

V/r

Chuck
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Flying for CAP has been on my retirement radar for a while. If our congressmen and women get their way, Battle Creek will have MQ-9Bs on the ramp. They'll need a CAP escort, as no one expects the FAA to let MQ-9s do what they do in the rest of the world any time soon.

(The FAA really really hates RPAs with a fiery passion.)
 
Just as an fyi for those that might not know or be otherwise interested. CAP has two sides, the cadet side and the operational flying side. There is flying associated with the cadet side, and you can still do operations as well, but the cadet side is much more regimented and ‘training command’ style.

My son participated in CAP for about 6-9 months as a cadet so I joined as a senior member for us to do together. If my son hadn’t been involved I’d have run away screaming, the cadet side felt like I was watching a pseudo boot camp/A-school environment. My son thought so too and decided to stop attending.

I say all that to say, you can 100% participate in the flying side of CAP and have zero involvement with cadets. They are independent so don’t feel obligated to work with the cadet side of things if you don’t want to.
 
A couple of our Ops Conductors (think test event PM) at PMRF were retired USAF and involved in the local CAP flying outfit. They would regularly fly as targets for SPY-6 test events, among other things, so quasi tactical sort of flying
 
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