Air Cartographer
Job description: Create and update maps, charts and books used in the planning and completion of flying missions.
Pay after one year: £17,485
Joining age: 17 – 35
Category: Airmen/airwomen
Usual service: 9 years
Open to: men or women
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Qualifications you need: 3 GCSEs/SCEs at Grade C/3 minimum in English language, maths and ICT, or equivalent.
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Qualifications you can gain: DefAB Level 4 diploma in aeronautical cartography
Nationality: Citizen of the UK or the Republic of Ireland, or a Commonwealth citizen since birth
The job
Air Cartographers are the RAF’s mapmakers. You’ll be trained to use modern digital techniques to create and update the flight information publications known as FLIPs – maps, charts and books used by aircrews in the planning and completion of their flying missions. You’ll also help maintain a computer database of digital aeronautical information. The work takes place at the Number 1 Aeronautical Information Documents Unit at RAF Northolt in West London, which has an annual output of seven million charts and a quarter of a million books. It’s a job that demands accuracy and an eye for detail.
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