Asked about checkride downgrades

Jet Brain, December 3, 2021, CJO Offered, Delta Airlines, Delta Ride Reports, DAL Ride Reports, 0

Which Airline did you interview with?	Delta
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability?	6 wks between invite and interview, listed availability as ~7 wks
Did you include volunteer work in your application?	Yes
Did you receive a job offer?	Yes
If you did not receive the CJO why do you think you weren’t chosen to continue in the process?	N/A
What is your experience?	Military
Total Flight Time	2,000-3,000
Total Turbine PIC Time	TPIC 121 hours 0 TPIC Military hours 500-1000 TPIC 91/135 0
General Overview of Experience	Outstanding. Everyone, starting with the security folks that gave us our visitor’s badges, was extremely friendly and encouraging. MMPI was straight-forward. Interview was with 717 LCA, 717 FO, and HR rep. They had one question about my logbooks but it was easily explained. WWYD/TMAAT questions were all things I’d seen in the HR simulator. Took just over an hour. 15/17 for CJOs.
How long did you have your application in before you received an invite?	1-6 months
Did you attend a job fair?	No
Did you do anything special that triggered the interview invitation?	I got two strong internal letters of rec; got the invite email shortly thereafter. Don’t know, however, if that’s what triggered the invite.
How many internal recs did you have?	1-2
How long was it from the time of your invite to the actual interview?	6 weeks
Did you have any issues with logbooks, application or paperwork?	Minor. I included a summary sheet at the front of my logbook which listed my total time in a specific aircraft. I had flown that aircraft in both the Navy and USAF, but the interview panel had only referenced my USAF flight hour report and not my Navy one. Once I explained that, they seemed fine; didn’t even reference the Navy paperwork and took me at my word.
Technical Test Questions	None, really. They asked if I was familiar with FAA crew regs; I said I was only familiar with USAF rules. They didn’t seem to mind.
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test?	N/A
HR Questions	TMAAT you cancelled a flight. I told them about taking myself off a training flight because of fatigue. WWYD Captain is lining up to land at the wrong airport. WWYD You are a new Captain and FO is continuously doing all your flows/duties at multiple stops. WWYD Captain is dealing with a MX issue that will result in a 45 min delay, causing half of the passengers to miss connecting flights, including 6 passengers who will miss their international flight. What do you do, what do you say to the passengers?
Cog Test	I made sure I aced the easy tests (patterns, spatial orientation, clearance read back) to offset the fly-through and Sudoku challenges. Got my Cog results back about 3 hours after I took the test. RST Does a great job with this!
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview?	Started months before, but once I got the interview, I hit it hard the last three weeks prior, especially in the last week before the interview
How did you prep?	RST webinar was very helpful.
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help?	RST webinar was also very helpful. Check out their one on one prep!
Any additional information you would like to add.	I had a lower GPA from my undergrad degree and was expecting questions about it, but it never came up.
Is there anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process?	I was unprepared to talk about some of my check ride downgrades. It has been years since I received a downgrade and I hadn’t reviewed any of my Form 8’s. I should have read over them and been ready for any questions.

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