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Royal time pilot3/26/2023 ![]() ![]() On completion of RNZAF Officer Commisioning Course you will travel to Auckland to complete some pre-requisite courses for wings. You will be helped to develop some solid personal and time management skills in order to achieve your weekly tasks, and whilst you’ll rarely be sitting around twiddling your thumbs, you’ll find there’s almost always time for a kick-about in the gym, or a quiet swim in the base pool. In addition to your primary role you will also carry out other duties, such as commanding a base sports team, or being a member of the Officers Mess Committee organising social functions, or filling an aviation safety or welfare role on Base. The point is that an aircrew working day is varied, never gets boring, and is almost always infinitely flexible! Alternatively you could be starting work at 1400 because you are planned to fly the Prime Minister of New Zealand and members of Cabinet into three regional airports later that night. Whilst the standard working day for Defence personnel is 0745 to 1630 sometimes you may well find yourself in at 0300 planning for an 0500 take off on a Joint Forces task supporting an Army training exercise in Waiouru. But once you are a qualified Pilot, one of the big attractions of the RNZAF as a career is that the elements of your day to day job are wildly variable. ![]() Whilst on RNZAF Pilots Course your daily activities are fairly proscribed, enabling you to concentrate all your energies on the comprehensive and sometimes testing training system. As a Commissioned Officer, you’ll also be required to perform military command and leadership duties, and with additional training could go on to fill senior command or executive management roles. Initially, in your primary role as aircrew, you’ll fly as an operational Co-pilot, but with further training and experience you’ll soon make the leap to becoming a fully qualified Aircraft Captain, and then Flying Instructor. Currently this involves specialist training onto the A109 Light Utility Helicopter, P-3K2 Orion, C-130H Hercules or Boeing 757. Once you’ve completed pilot training, you’ll concentrate on organising and conducting military operations and tasks in New Zealand and throughout the world. It’s fast, tough and one of the most exciting careers in the world. ![]() He also served on attachment to the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, before training to become a full-time pilot with the RAF Search and Rescue Force.Have you always wanted to be a pilot? How about joining the Royal New Zealand Air Force? You’ll get to operate some of the cutting-edge military aircraft in our fleet, and also play a vital role in command and management positions throughout our organisation. Prince William was commissioned into the Household Cavalry from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in December 2006. I absolutely love flying, so it will be an honour to serve operationally with the Search and Rescue Force, helping to provide such a vital emergency service. The course has been challenging but I have enjoyed it immensely. I am really delighted to have completed the training course with my fellow students. The course ended with a series of assessed exercises designed to test the students’ ability to work as fully-integrated members of the Search and Rescue Force. Prince William completed 70 hours of live flying plus 50 hours of simulator training and learnt how to manoeuvre the Sea King helicopter to the high standards expected of Search and Rescue helicopter pilots. The graduation is the culmination of seven months of training with the Search and Rescue Training Unit and the Sea King Operational Conversion Unit. The Prince has also received his squadron badge from the Officer Commanding 22 Squadron. ![]() A RAF Sea King helicopter from 203 Squadron participates in Exercise Yellow Scorpion with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution ![]()
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