Ride Report

Which Airline did you interview with?	FedEx
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability?	2 Weeks availability, 30 days from invite to interview
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?	Civilian
Total Flight Time	5,000-8,000
Total Turbine PIC Time	TPIC 121 hours 1000-2000
General Overview of Experience	Civilian airline experience
How long did you have your application in before you received an invite?	12 months +
Did you attend a job fair?	No
Did you do anything special that triggered the interview invitation?	I had two internal recommendations, Updated my app at least once per month, I had my resume professionally created.
How many internal recs did you have?	1-2
How long was it from the time of your invite to the actual interview?	4 weeks
Did you have any issues with logbooks, application or paperwork?	Nope, I had Prosoftt binders make my logbook and I checked and rechecked paperwork before submission.
Technical Test Questions	Fairly straightforward, just take the RST practice test over and over. That should serve you well. Nothing I really studied was on my JKT.
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test?	Lots of gas turbine theory and mechanics on mine.
HR Questions	Whats the pros and cons between FedEx and where you are now? TMAAT you had to keep and eye on a First Officer? What would you do if the Captain wanted to shut down and engine going up a steep grade?

How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview?	All four weeks. For me that was the easiest part.
How did you prep?	RST

Any additional information you would like to add.	They really REALLY do not want a gouged interviewee. Be yourself and be professional.

TPIC 121 hours

2 years corporate, 5 years 121 FO, 5 years 121 CA (last 2 as Line Check Airman)

Great experience overall from start to finish

Very nice people

Excellent experience

The Southwest interview experience was exactly

Straight Forward Process

Overall the experience was consistent with the recent ride reports

Made errors on the SBI which cost me time causing me not to comple a briefing in time

TPIC 121 hours

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