This was my second interview with Delta

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Which Airline did you interview with? Delta Air Lines
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability? 2 Weeks
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 only
Total Flight Time 5,000-8,000
Total Turbine PIC Time < 1,000
General Overview of Experience This was my second interview with Delta. The experience has been talked over and over in past report. Nothing had changed. First class airline, first class experience.
How long did you have your application in before you received an invite? 12 months +
Did you attend a job fair? Yes
Did you do anything special that triggered the interview invitation? I believe that attending the NGPA job fair on 2016 triggered my application review.
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? No issues there. Although I was complimented on the way it was presented. There have been discussions whether you should make something fancy or not. My own take on it, whether you spend $15 or $150 will not make the yay or nay decision. However, it will set the tone of who you are when they review your stuff. I was complimented about it when I entered the room and that was a nice way to start.
How did you prepare for the JKT/COG portion of the interview? RST only. I study really hard for my first attempt and was very surprise how much I remembered for my second round. Did the practice exams on the website, answers I got wrong went to a short research in the books or google. Answers I did get right I continually made sure I could also explain why it is the right answer. That was my way to understand I knew the concept.
Technical Test Questions What is induced drag?
-The difference between the aircraft’s longitudinal axis and the chord line.
-The difference between the aircraft’s Longitudinal axis and the horizon.
-The difference between the aircraft’s effective lift and the lift generated by the wing
-Something else….On precision approach, when are you established on the final approach segment?
-I can’t recall all the options given but read that part on the AIM. The answer is when you are on the LOC and at or below the glide slope intercept altitude.
Picture of PAPI (3 white, 1 red) you are on right base 30 deg. from the runway center line, what do you do?
-I chose continue the approach. The rest of the answers dealt with doing some corrections.
On visual approach. Altitude 3900′ MSL, Airport elevation 300′ MSL, Speed 120kt. When do you start descent to maintain 3 degree glide path. What will be your rate of descent.
Skid – what is it and how it affects turn radius and rate.
You get “fuel filter clog” msg, what action will most likely to correct it?
-Turn ENG 1 anti-ice for one minute
-Turn ENG 2 anti-ice for one minute
-Open X-feed valve
-Turn fuel heat for one minute
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test? The fuel electronic unit (or something like that) failed, what indications are tied to normal operations? Most of the answers were combination of N1, EGT, Hydraulic quantity, and some more stuff that I can’t recall. I looked at this question for solid 2 minutes I then said “ain’t no body got time for that…” chose the one that looked the least weird and moved on.
Cog Test RST. Look no further. Only thing that you must be aware of and it is mentioned in the webinars, the real test is much slower than the trainer so take it into account.
Cog Math Questions I can’t recall the questions but they were fairly easy. What I did notice (at least on my test) that the numbers are given in writing and not numbers. For example, the car has twenty gallons fuel tank, and getting fourteen miles per gallon. if the tank is three quarters full how many miles will you be able to cover? That’s a little bit harder than if you would see the actual 20, 3/4, and 14 respectively. Food for thought.
HR Questions Most of my questions were about my background. It was really a conversation and not an question-answer kind of an interview. The active CA asked me questions out of my logbook, the retired CA focus more on my transcripts. The HR had his head in my app the whole time.
Interviewing for the second time, I really believe they tailor the questions specifically to you and whatever background you have.
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview? Since it was my second attempt I would say about 8 months.
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help? Did couple ECIC webinars but mainly practice with my buddy at Delta. As mentioned before, be aware of interview prep companies. Not that they are giving bad service, it just that Delta recruiters don’t like them, and that is an understatement.
Any additional information you would like to add. For those who get the 6-months call back. Keep your heads up and keep studying. I know it’s hard but that’s the only way to success.
Is their anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process? No.
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