Delta Interview

[CesnaCaptn]

You are on the 270 radial. Hold east on the 090 radial 20 DME fix, 20 mile legs. Wind is 360 @ 20kts. What radial will the bearing pointer be pointing to before you turn inbound?

Am I the only one that was confused about where you are with this question? Are you east of the VOR or west of the VOR? The question states that you are on the 270 radial. How can you be holding east on the 090 radial 20 DME fix?

 

[CesnaCaptn]

Actually 50 * 60 = 3000.

Thanks for pointing that out. I sure have a lot of catching up to do.

 

[Truckdriver]

Am I the only one that was confused about where you are with this question? Are you east of the VOR or west of the VOR? The question states that you are on the 270 radial. How can you be holding east on the 090 radial 20 DME fix?

You could be on the 270 radial and then cross the station to the 090 radial and hold east. It would be a parallel entry. My thinking is what fin said. You really don't know the correction because there is no speed. You would be holding a left correction to track the radial so the pointer would be pointing slightly behind and to the left. Anyone know what the answer choices were for this one?

 

[Dr Pepper]

Just remember that some of the questions on the knowledge test are there to waste your time. Write down the question number, select an answer, move on to the next question and then come back to the ones you were not sure on. I think the one about traveling 10 degrees is only there to waste your time. The test was 42 questions for 42 minutes. The behavior test is 50 minutes and plenty of time. The cog has not time limit overall, but sections do time out.

 

[Truckdriver]

(1) .84 Mach works out to be about 11 KTAS - seems like the best answer

5% of .84 is greater than 10kts. So according to the AIM, wouldn't you tell ATC when your speed differs by 5% in this case? In the real world, we just tell them when indicated drops by 10kts even if we are using mach, but for testing purposes I'm not sure what I would say. It's either .84 or .82.

 

[Truckdriver]

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[slinky]

OOPs you are right. Sorry about the typo...

50*60/300 =10
so it would be 080

slinky

 

[ACL65PILOT]

Like one other person posted. Big Picture guys. Take a WAG and come back to it if you have time.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Don't worry about the cog. test. It was actually the easiest part of the day. The one that has you list the numbers backward were all single digit numbers. The test that has you rember the key (@=2, ^=7) is repeated a couple times later in the test so rember it. If you play vidio games this test is pretty easy. You have to do different things with both hands at the same time.

The aviation test was 40 questions in 40 min. Most of the questions were from the gouge. Some were the same type of question but with some changes. You just need to read the question and think about it.

If I can answer an specific questions I will try and remember. But if I help you, you had better get hired. That way in some small way I could live vicariously through you.

I knew all these years of surfing the internet for porn would finally pay off. :blush:

 

[Truckdriver]

So does mach increase or decrease with altitude? I thought that it decreased because if you are going mach 1 at 1000 feet you are going much faster than if you are going mach 1 at 36,000 feet. Why are the fellas on the gouge saying mach increases with altitude? TAS is greater with altitude and the speed of sound is lower so are they saying that mach NUMBER increases with altitude even though actual mach decreases?

 

[~~~^~~~]

Mach increases with altitude because the speed of sound decreases with decreasing density.

 

[BILL LUMBERG]

737Pylt:

This thread is intended to help people interested in getting on board at Delta with positive information. I think everyone is bored to death with an arguement that started in 1999. If you want to keep it going, PM me. But for the record - you won. There are 10 DCI carriers in our only hub and ASA is positioned to be replaced by non-ALPA pilots. All the destruction we saw coming is now a fact and soon to be a footnote in history. It is a shame. But at least I participated in an effort to try to save our airline and by extension a small part of the profession. I continue to believe "inclusive scope" which would result in all Delta flying being performed by Delta pilots (who would be junior to you) is the right direction - but - now that non-ALPA pilots perform most of the 49% of Delta flying done by subcontractors it will probably never happen. You won, you won, you won. How many times must I repeat the same drivel before you accept, you won? Those who wanted an inclusive union, lost. The indians will take back the West before small jet pilots can try to attain scope that would protect their jobs and raise the floor of this profession.

Again, this thread is to try to help people who are trying to get on board with a great airline. Will you contribute anything? You have experience we don't have.

Ya know Fins....I almost bit on this one...... I re-read ALLLLLLL of your past quotes and you had some interesting words for us Delta pilots and now you wanna be one........I had some real compassion for ya until I did the research of what you've said about us before.......This is not a question of win or lose, just admit you were WRONG..... When (and you most certainly will) you make your way over to this side of the fence your myopic RJDC vision will become much clearer....

I really don't like wafflers and hypocrites, but welcome if you get here, at least you're not a Comair guy......

 

[PreContact]

You guys are killing me...isn't this what an FMS is for? I mean, really!

 

[altscap]

This is from “Ace the Technical Pilot Interview” pg. 123

“Mach is a calculation of the true airspeed (TAS) relative to the local speed of sound (LSS – I’ll call it speed of sound here). Or, Mach is a percentage of the speed of sound. For example half the speed of sound would be .50m

As temperature decreases (during a climb) the speed of sound decreases.

If the speed of sound decreases during a constant (true) speed climb, then the mach number must rise.”


My company’s’ profile on the CRJ is to climb at 290IAS until we reach .70mach around FL250. In the summer months the 200 usually wimps out at about .65 so we have to get up to about FL270 before achieving .70. So, if you think about it, mach number is increasing during the climb out.

For those of you who get off on formulas: MN = TAS / LSS

Hope this helps everyone. Personally, all this math is hurting my brain. Best wishes to all!!

 

[El Duque]

Hey guys, resurecting an old post (sorry). I have an interview coming up and I am still a bit confused about some of these problems.

Regarding the question about holdong east on the 090 radial. The question asks what the bearing pointer is pointing to before you turn inbound. My interpretation is that if your are on the 090 radial, your bearing is pointing to 270 regardless of wind correction angle. Am I totally wrong on that?

Also, there seem to be a number of questions from the gouge dealing with decent rates and wind correction angles that do not have any speeds. Does the test have similar questions with no speeds, or is that just one of the inconsistencies of the gouge?

Thanks for everyones' info. It has been very helpful.