The entire process from application to interview went as advertised.

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Which Airline did you interview with? Delta
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability?
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?
What is your experience? Military
Total Flight Time 3,000-4,000
Total Turbine PIC Time >2,000
General Overview of Experience The entire process from application to interview went as advertised. Overall a great experience. A little stressful for the testing but the HR interview was low key and they put me at ease.
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? Nothing more than getting four strong internal recommendations.
How many internal recs did you have? 3-4
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? No issues with paperwork or logbooks. I did not do any fancy binders. I just had two separate blue pocket folders for each set of papers. My logbook and flight hours did not get any questions.
How did you prepare for the JKT/COG portion of the interview? I read EEPP front to back and took notes. I used RST for my prep for the JKT and COG test. I went through every single flash card and every single quiz question. I took multiple JKT quiz simulators and I got where I consistently scored above 95. I did the COG trainer on RST multiple times but I did not focus on this. My focus was the JKT. The resource library on RST is invaluable. I had a hard time reading the ANA but I found the Navy primary aerodynamics manual and engines manual excellent.
Technical Test Questions I honestly can’t say that there was a single question on my 60 question JKT that was the same in RST. BUT, almost every single one of them were similar. I felt like having gone through the JKT practice quizzes and all of the flashcards I was more than ready for the actual JKT. I can’t stress enough how important it is to go through the actual material and understand the concepts. Reading the Navy T-34 engines and aerodynamic books was very good, but also EEPP gave you almost all the material you needed for navigation and weather questions.
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test? I got the ILS / LDA differences question. I also got a question on the FAA approved service volume of a localizer. I believe the only correct answer from the four choices was 35 degrees and 10nm. I also had a holding question that asked me to pick the incorrect answer where all four answers appeared correct. I believe the correct (incorrect) answer on that one was “Below 14,000 feet – 1 minute pattern and at or above 14,000 feet 1 1/2 minute pattern”, with the discriminator of below 14,000 feet and at or above 14,000 feet making that incorrect. Correct answer would have been at or below14,000 feet and above 14,000 feet.
Cog Test I thought the actual COG test at Delta was easier than the RST, except for the ILS / same/different discriminator test. On this test, keeping the actual ILS bar centered was different on the Delta test than the RST. If you let it get too far outside of center a single arrow key stroke in the opposite direction would not reverse its course but instead it would slow it down and it would take multiple opposite direction arrow keys to get it to reverse. The problem was that too many key strokes in one direction would cause it to accelerate. I found it much more difficult than on RST to keep centered and even harder to devote time to the series of letters and numbers to compare whether they were the same or different. All the others were much easier and slower.
Cog Math Questions I did not see any COG math questions that were the same from RST, but they were all very familiar. I had a percentage of a percentage question similar to the “540 students in high school, 70% graduate and of those graduates 30% go to college, how many students go to college?” The COG math quiz gives you about 30 seconds per question and there is no kind of clock or countdown timer. I know that I completely guessed on two of the questions just before the 30 seconds were up in order to prevent not answering the question. A few were easy and a few were mind boggling. You’ll know it when you see it and you’ll probably do what I did and select C and move on.
HR Questions Overall I thought the HR interview was softball questions. I had the standard, tell me about yourself from high school and tell how you got into aviation. I had a TMAAT you had to make a difficult decision in the cockpit, and I had tell us what your most rewarding tour has been and which one was the most difficult. On my WWYD questions I had, “you’re short 20 meals in the main cabin and its going to be a 30 – 45 minute delay to get them.” I asked how long the flight was and they said ATL to MCO and I said I’d make an announcement that in the interest of time we were going to go without the meals, ask for volunteers to give up their meals and offer free drink tickets. Then they changed the scenario and said now its NYC to London and they are short 1st class meals and I said I’d make an announcement that we would delay for the meals and I’d make up the time in the air. Other questions was “you’re the CA and the FO shows up without his hat, untucked shirt and unshaven, WWYD?” Then they reversed it and said your the FO and the CA shows up like this.
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview?
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help? ECIC. I attended a seminar in Norfolk and did the top off three days prior to the interview. I thought the top off was invaluable. It gave me a lot of confidence that I was ready for the interview.
Any additional information you would like to add. Know your math ROT’s. Descent distances, descent rates (fpm), lead radials, distance from the station were all problems that were on the JKT and none of mine were familiar questions from RST. You really need to know those math ROT’s.
Is their anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process? I wish I would have had more time. I had submitted my application and got the interview invite in six days and the interview 29 days later. I started the process cold. I was cramming for four weeks. I think if you go through every question on the RST site and you read the resources and study materials you will be fine, but my warning is to not underestimate that JKT. Its hard and there will be many questions that you will probably not know. If you are short on time forego Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators and stick to the shorter Navy training manuals. All of those resources on the RST website are great, the PODcasts and video library will really expand your knowledge base. I will also put a plug in for the RSTDelta Facebook site. I read every trip report and practice question. You can learn a lot from your peers and their questions
What can we do to improve our services? I think you could tighten up your material a little. there are a lot of typo’s in the flashcards. Also I think it would be helpful to have another resources on navigation and navigational aids. I didn’t have a strong knowledge of things like ILS or LDA approaches and there were a couple of questions about them.
Concepts not covered by RST
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