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Which Airline did you interview with? Delta
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability? Invite came the day after publishing, but had to wait 13 weeks for the next available interview. Availability date fell between the two, so kinda irrelevant.
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 1,000-2,000
Total Turbine PIC Time
TPIC 121 hours 0
TPIC Military hours 1000-2000
TPIC 91/135 0
General Overview of Experience Single engine single seat jet.
How long did you have your application in before you received an invite? <60 days
Did you attend a job fair? No
Did you do anything special that triggered the interview invitation? ATP-CTP course loophole. Seriously, it’s the gouge. All “internal recs” were just LOR’s, no HR email needed.
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 had changed my availability to 4wks notice, and they asked if I could do 2, while acknowledging that I would probably actually get 8.
Technical Test Questions Captain Holmes jokes in the in-brief that 90% of Delta line pilots could not pass this test right now. I walked out of this feeling exactly the way so many others had felt: not so great. Several questions I had basically no idea, but worse than those were the questions with more than 1 seemingly correct answer or NO seemingly correct answers. The best example that stuck with me was a picture of a generic drag curve plot. Induced, parasite, and total drag curves. What point on the graph corresponds to L/Dmax? You may be quick to answer “the trough of the total drag curve” which is true and one of the choices. However, you may also know that the trough always corresponds to the point where the induced and parasitic drag curves intersect, which was ALSO one of the options! By my memory, the categories were, in order of most to least questions: aero, engines, systems, nav/holding, descent planning, weather, plate reading.
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test? See above.
HR Questions -Tell us about yourself after high school in 2-3 minutes, including how you got interested in flying and why Delta.
Unrealistic timeline, but nobody is timing you. Just don’t go into the weeds.
-Being a Delta pilot is a 24/7 job (I thought this was about to be a “what does the company owe you in your off time,
what do you owe the company,” but no) how will you deal with missing holidays, birthdays, etc? This seemed like an odd question for AD military, but a softball.
-What is the number 1 reason Delta should hire you?
-What is the number 2 reason Delta should hire you?
-TMAAT you had a difficult interaction with a “customer”.
-TMAAT you had a difficult training experience. I asked if they cared whether it was an experience as trainer or trainee.
They didn’t.
-RC wanted to know why I had so few hours. Because 99% of my flights are 1.0-1.5. Is that normal? Yes.
-RC wanted to know about some of my quals.
-WWYD if you were flying with a captain who was consistently high and fast on every approach on every leg?
-WWYD if you were the captain on a widebody longhaul, day 1 leg 1 briefing the large crew, and some of the FA’s were
on their phones? The active captain laughed at my answer to this despite trying not to. It must have been very naiive. No problem, I laughed at myself too. They didn’t care that I didn’t know the ins and outs of part 121 ops yet, they just wanted to get to know me.
Cog Test The “new cog trainer” on RST more than prepares you. The vast majority of the tests utilize a touchscreen and stylus. You are not permitted to wear your watch during the test, and you have no way of telling how much time you have remaining to take it.
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview? I’d estimate a year.
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help? ECIC. Yes. Using to help figure out what TMAAT stories you want to tell and how to tell them is huge. Still I told ones I hadn’t planned on telling, but I knew how to pick a story and how to tell it from ECIC. Also the WWYD questions that I got weren’t exactly the hardest but I had great peace of mind going in that I was well prepared and that helped.
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Is there anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process?
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