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Which Airline did you interview with? Delta
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability? 2 weeks
Did you include volunteer work in your application?
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? NA
What is your experience? 121
Total Flight Time 4,000-5,000
Total Turbine PIC Time
TPIC 121 hours 500-1000
TPIC Military hours 0
TPIC 91/135 0
General Overview of Experience Part 141 flight school – flight instructor
Part 121 airline – TPIC 1000hrs, Line Check Airman
How long did you have your application in before you received an invite? 12 months +
Did you attend a job fair? Yes
Did you do anything special that triggered the interview invitation? October meet and greet at Delta Museum
How many internal recs did you have? 0
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? I had about a 100 hour difference of flight time on my Airline App then my logbook. They never asked me anything about it during the interview.
Interviewers never asked to see my Cover letter, Resume or Letters of Recommendation. Other interviewees didn’t even bring any of those things. Thought that was odd but a lot of interviewees didn’t even bring them.
How did you prepare for the JKT/COG portion of the interview? Ready Set Takeoff- all 15 days which took me about 30 days to complete.
Technical Test Questions Everything Explained for the Professional Pilot (Chapters 1-7, 10 and 11)
FAR/AIM (for taxi signs and holding)
PHAK (mostly covered in RST with their books they make you read)
AFM/IFM (very little of my time spent of these)
Jeppesen Manual (Symbol legend pages)
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test? Out of the 60 questions I wasn’t sure about 15 of them. Probably got about half of those right. They aerodynamics questions were much like the easier RST questions.
Cog Test Was definitely different. (Watch the Day 15 COG Video FIRST)
The 1-A, 2-B, 3-C…. Test was waaay easier (The next number in sequence doesn’t disappear)
Flag stick guy Test – Maybe a total of 10
Keeping the Airplane Centered Test – Easy if you keep the plane very close to centerline. Once it gets off, it gets away quite quickly. Holding the arrow keys don’t do anything after pressed in. You have to Tap the keys if the plane starts to get away from you. Before the test starts, I would practice and let the plane get way off centerline to see how the plane reacts.
Reverse Numbers – Numbers flash on the screen, disappear, then the next number shows up making you remember the numbers for a much longer period of time. Slightly threw me off but not much harder.
The Number Symbol Test – First test you have the Key while inputting the numbers and once you finish it, you do some other things then they test you on it later without the Key
The 123 remembering the last number Test – The number flashes, disappears then a new number shows up. This is different because it is not instant. A lot more time in between when you can select your next answer. Easier in my opinion but I had to practice the new version twice. Also, you use a stylus for the selection of numbers and your non-dominate hand to move the airplane back and forth using the < > Arrow keys (As explained to you before the test starts)
The Direction Arrows/Pointers Test – Like the Reverse Numbers Test, these arrows disappear after you answer forcing you to remember the “rule” a little bit longer. Slower but in my opinion easier
Cog Math Questions The word problems were hard. Might have answered 1 out of 3 correctly. I would practice percentage questions like the one I had (not exactly what I got) – “One chair costs 16 dollars at an 80 percent discount, how much would 4 chairs be at 100 percent of the price”. Remember no Paper/Pen/Calculator for these COG Math questions.
HR Questions Checkride failures, how I became a LCA. Got about 4 TMAAT questions and 4 WWYD questions. 3 List questions.
A few questions they asked hit me cold. Took my time and found a story that fit the criteria Emerald Coast taught me. You are not going to know every question they ask but know how to answer them.
Definitely tailored to my experience.
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview? 15 days
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help? Emerald Coast and they helped very much so. 2 webinars and the top-off.
Any additional information you would like to add. I did my mock interview questions in front of my wife. Embarrassing, distracting and I sounded like a moron, but the distractions and practice helped prepare me for when they would interrupt me in the middle of my intro, why me, why delta, ect. The interruptions were not intended to be mean, but they just wanted extra information about my experience.
Is there anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process? Studied less for the math equations on the JKT and more for the percentages questions on the COG. Also go to DAY 15 and watch the COG Test video before you get too involved with the COG trainer. Got very frustrated with the COG trainer in the beginning because the little tricks you teach in the video would have helped tremendously in the beginning.
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