RST does a great job of preparing for this test

rstharold, November 25, 2019, CJO Offered, Delta Ride Reports, Delta Ride Reports, 0

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?	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?	121,91
Total Flight Time	3,000-4,000
Total Turbine PIC Time	TPIC 121 hours 500-1000 TPIC Military hours 0 TPIC 91/135 0
General Overview of Experience	Part 141 University, CFI, Regional Airline FO/CA
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?	No
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?	No
Technical Test Questions	Some of the concepts covered: lift/weight/thrust/drag, how speed and bank angle affect turn radius and rate, ground effect, IFR chart symbology, 1 question about time changes between Zulu, that question about departing MEM to an airport with a curfew, calculating hold time based on fuel, parts/functions and location of a turbine engine, (i.e. turbine inlet, diffuser, compressor, accessory case,) fuel balancing, calculating when to start descent
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test?	Determine your distance straight line in NM given GPS coordinates from departure airport to destination airport. For instance, something like departure point: N40°44’/W122°24′ and arrival point: N42°41’/W122°34′. That was a concept that I did not find in RST and was not something I knew how to answer. I just guessed on that answer.
HR Questions	Featured a panel with an HR person who was a retired pilot, another retired pilot, and a current line pilot. Started by introducing themselves, then asked me tell me about myself from high school and on in 5-6 minutes. Asked me specific questions about my application, (i.e. things that I did in college, volunteering, Women in Aviation) How do you expect to be successful in training if you’ve failed your CFI oral twice, easiest thing about college, hardest thing about college. How do you deal with complacency? WWYD if captain won’t fly the noise abatement procedure? WWYD if you were briefing the flight attendants and they won’t pay attention to you? With the psychologist: tell me about your childhood, strengths and weaknesses, most stressful time in personal life, most stressful time in the cockpit
Cog Test	More straight forward and simple than RST. The RST games are much more complicated and difficult and that is by design, so that the real COG Test will be easier for you. (For instance balancing the ball: in RST you need to take it out to the red markers in order for it to count, on the real test you just need to keep it as close to center as possible). The real tests has you use a stylus on a touchscreen computer monitor. Like it was said on Facebook, as long as you understand the concept or objective of the games, the real COG test will be easier to do and be easier to understand than the games on RST. That said, I am glad the RST games were more difficult because it made the real COG test seem easy.
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview?	~30 days
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help?	Emerald Coast – did 1 webinar, 1 rapid fire, and 1 top off. Their concepts helped, and turning a negative into a positive and associating it with the company you are going to helped. Worked on HR for about 30 days and did some rehearsing of certain questions to myself after practicing with the rapid fire. Important that you find a good balance of studying JKT/COG content to studying HR content that works for you.
Any additional information you would like to add.	RST does a great job of preparing for this test. I do not think there is a better way to prepare for this interview. I followed the 15 day checklist, read through all the study guide stuff and used all the practice tests. I did not read the whole Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators except for the sections that were part of the checklist. After I read through everything and covered the checklist, I did a few practice tests everyday. Just like on RST, they are 60 questions each and they have a random mix of aerodynamics, engineering, navigation, and math. The mix was aerodynamics heavy and I had 3 math questions. I started studying as soon as I got the invite and I honestly thought the JKT wasn’t bad at all. It was pretty similar to the types of questions on RST’s quizzes and practice tests, if not somewhat easier. You don’t know your score on the JKT or COG, but I predicted I got somewhere in the high 80s on the JKT based on the scores I was getting the days before my interview and the types of questions I got. In the closest days prior, I was scoring in the 90s. Like all other reports said, the concept mastery is key. Maybe up to half the questions were exact RST questions that I remembered and knew the answer to, while others were similar, just worded differently or talked about the same concept. There was only 1 question that I was not able to answer, and that was the GPS coordinates one. While studying, I was concerned I was getting to the point where I had memorized answers, but I was able to explain to myself why the answer was what it was, even though I had it somewhat memorized because of how many times I had taken the quizzes. Being able to explain to yourself why an answer is correct shows that your understanding goes deeper than just rote memorization like on Shepard Air, and that is important. Biggest advice: start studying early. I put in at least 2 hours per day studying with RST. As far as the application is concerned, be honest. Own up to all your stage check/check ride failures, and speeding tickets even if they don’t appear on your driving record anymore. Delta wants you to be able to show honesty and how you learned from the experience.
Is there anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process?	No

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