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Which Airline did you interview with? Delta
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability? Almost 2 months from invite to interview, 1 month from interview to availability
Did you include volunteer work in your application?
Did you receive a job offer? No 6, months re-invite, HR Failure
If you did not receive the CJO why do you think you weren’t chosen to continue in the process? best guess is that it was either my driving record, how I handled their questions on it, or both
What is your experience? Military
Total Flight Time 3,000-4,000
Total Turbine PIC Time
TPIC 121 hours 0
TPIC Military hours >2000
TPIC 91/135 0
General Overview of Experience Delta is a professional act. Everything was a class act in terms of facilities, timeliness, and even the way I was shown the door. Capt Holmes and the team are sympathetic to the news they are handing you, I think (when not receiving a CJO). The interview was a bit less friendly than I anticipated, but I’d heard that occasionally an interview panel can be somewhat adversarial. That is how I would characterize my interview panel. Professional, yes, but not by any stretch could you say that my interview panel was friendly or welcoming. These were gatekeepers and I did not pass inspection. I was grateful for an opportunity to try again in six months.
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? Not to my knowledge
How many internal recs did you have? 5+
How long was it from the time of your invite to the actual interview? 8 weeks
Did you have any issues with logbooks, application or paperwork? I did not catch that two questions on the application were effectively asking the same thing (failure of any portion of flight training, civilian or military). I answered yes to the second question, but no to the first. I have no idea how I failed to catch this. They asked about it at the start of the interview, I was able to correct it, and as I said, my chec-kride failures were already documented on the application.
They also asked me if my availability date was still correct and I needed to shift my date 7 days to the right since I had new information regarding my military terminal leave status.
How did you prepare for the JKT/COG portion of the interview? I used RST for the JKT/COG (15-day course)
Technical Test Questions These ran the gamut: general aero questions, impact of flaps on different phases of flight, impact of altitude/temp/weight on performance, impact of altitude on stall speeds, runway lighting, takeoff hold lighting, descent calculations, factors affecting lift production, questions on CG, basic gas turbines, all stuff that I had either seen or had a chance to see on RST’s study plan. I was surprised by how well I felt leaving the JKT.
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test? What angle of attack (for a heavy, tanker aircraft) corresponds to the point where all lift converts to drag?
Cog Test Well prepared, thanks to RST. READ the FULL INSTRUCTIONS, though.
Cog Math Questions Easier than RST
HR Questions – What single event or incident in recent aviation history has had the most profound impact on the industry?
– FAs are late from a connecting flight, WWYD, you’re the CA?
– follow on to above: Gate agents bring customers down the ramp, even though FAs have not completed their pre-flight. CA is not there, friction b/w Gate and FA team members. WWYD?
– How have your chec-kride failures influenced you as an instructor pilot?
– TMAAT you had a conflict with a subordinate.
– CA is not going to meet his altitude and airspeed restrictions on an arrival. WWYD?
– follow up to previous: WWYD after landing?
– You’re the CA and the aircraft experiences a compressor stall at cruise alt, but when you pull throttles back, everything immediately recovers to normal. WWYD?
– there were a few others, but these are the ones I remember. most of the beginning of my interview was spent trying to answer their obvious concerns with my driving record. Nothing I was saying seemed to be enough. Tried to take ownership and explained what I learned at first, but they kept asking further questions. Going to have to work with ECIC to find a better way through these q’s next time.
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview? Started ECIC in May
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help? ECIC – yes, wish I had prepared even further.
Any additional information you would like to add. –
Is there anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process? I would have had a professional app company review my app as opposed to other pilots.
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