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A Beechcraft Baron 55 waiting in the dark of the Eagle Air hangar

Careers at Eagle Air

Every flight has a team behind it.

Eagle Air is a SACAA-accredited training organisation at Wonderboom National Airport. Training runs on instructors, ground instruction, operations, quality and safety, and the people who keep a student's week moving.

Opportunities are listed here only when the school is advertising them.

Working here

What the work is like

A training day is a chain of people. Every link is somebody's job.

Safety and preparation
A dedicated Quality and Safety Manager and an experienced Chief Flight Instructor hold the standard the school trains to.
Responsibility
Owners, management, instructors and students share the responsibility for how training is run.
Professional standards
A SACAA-accredited training organisation, ATO 1082, with the record-keeping and oversight that requires.
An operational airport
Wonderboom is a working airport with other traffic and a control tower — not a quiet training field.
Student development
Instruction is judged on whether a student progresses, and progress is reviewed as it happens.
Team coordination
Briefing rooms, examination stations, the simulator and the fleet are all on one site, which only works if the day is coordinated.

Wonderboom National Airport · FAWB

An instructor leading a briefing for students in the Eagle Air classroom
A briefing, before anything leaves the ground

The roles

Pilots are shaped by the people around them.

The kinds of work a flight school runs on. These are categories, not advertised vacancies — anything the school is actually recruiting for is further down the page.

  • A student pilot and her instructor reviewing a chart in the cockpit

    In the right-hand seat

    Flight instruction

    The right-hand seat: teaching, assessing and signing off a student's progress toward a licence.

    • Flight instructors
    • Senior instructors
    • Training and standards
    • Chief Flight Instructor functions
  • An instructor leading a briefing for students in the Eagle Air classroom

    In the classroom

    Ground instruction and examinations

    The theory behind the flying, and the examination stations where students sit it.

    • Ground-school instruction
    • Theory support
    • Student preparation
    • Examination administration
  • The Eagle Air training fleet lined up inside the bright hangar

    At the front desk

    Flight operations

    The schedule, the aircraft, the authorisations — the work that decides whether a lesson happens today.

    • Scheduling
    • Flight authorisation
    • Operational coordination
    • Aircraft and instructor planning
    • Student communication
  • Smiling student pilots gathered beside an aircraft on the apron

    Behind the standard

    Quality and safety

    Holding the standard the school is accredited against, and watching how training actually runs.

    • Quality oversight
    • Safety management
    • Compliance support
    • Training-standard monitoring
  • Two student pilots in uniform working through a flight-planning exercise together

    Alongside the student

    Student and administrative support

    Getting a student enrolled, answering them, and keeping the record straight.

    • Student onboarding
    • Accounts and administration
    • International-student support
    • School coordination
  • A young pilot crouched beside an aircraft on the apron, looking across the airfield

    Across the counter

    Pilot shop

    The kit a student needs, and the advice to pick the right version of it.

    • Retail
    • Stock handling
    • Product advice
    • Student-equipment support

Aircraft maintenance is handled by a trusted partner organisation on the airport, not by Eagle Air employees.

One lesson, end to end

A training day needs more than an instructor

One lesson, and everyone whose work it passes through.

A student pilot in a headset flying the aircraft, hands on the controls
The lesson everyone else made possible
  1. 01

    A student books

    • Student support
    • Scheduling
  2. 02

    The day is scheduled

    • Scheduling
    • Operations
  3. 03

    Weather and aircraft are reviewed

    • Operations
    • Instructor
  4. 04

    The flight is authorised

    • Operations
    • Chief Flight Instructor
  5. 05

    The student is briefed

    • Instructor
    • Ground instruction
  6. 06

    The lesson is flown

    • Instructor
    • Student
  7. 07

    The flight is debriefed

    • Instructor
  8. 08

    The training record is updated

    • Instructor
    • Administration
  9. 09

    Progress is planned

    • Chief Flight Instructor
    • Instructor
    • Student support

Right now

Current opportunities

Listed here when the school is advertising them, and not otherwise.

No current vacancies are being advertised.

Opportunities change as the school grows. You can still explore the roles that support flight training and learn about the Instructor Sponsorship pathway.

Instructor Sponsorship applications are open year-round, separately from any advertised vacancy.

A student pilot and her instructor reviewing a chart in the cockpit
The right-hand seat, and the pilot who ends up in it

From CPL to instructor

Instructor Sponsorship

Eagle Air's Flight Instructor Sponsorship Programme selects, trains and mentors candidates to become flight instructors — addressing a worldwide shortage of instructors that affects safety, training standards and the future of pilot development.

Guaranteed job placement as a flight instructor

Placement as an Eagle Air instructor follows successful completion of the course, on the terms set out in the formal sponsorship agreement.

In return: approximately 2–3 years as an eagle air flight instructor.

Read the programme in full

Where to go next

The people behind flight are the reason it is safe.

If instructing is where you are heading, the sponsorship programme is open year-round. If you want to understand the school first, start with how it trains.

Enquiring about training rather than a role? Speak to the training team