CatfishVT9
Anti-Democrat
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2004
- Posts
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Greeting fellow wanna be's.
I just got back from an interview with AirTran yesterday. What a great overall experience. This was the first interviews they have done since last fall. No significant changes.
Started with the standard company info brief. May-June start date? No info on whether the classes would be 737 or 717. That decision is made at the class start. Looking to hire 150 for this year.
There were nine of us in the group. I was the only military guy. Others were varied civilian backgrounds. Some flying 747s overseas, some turboprop, I think 1 CRJ guy. Everyone in the group had a letter of rec from someone in the company.
4 part interview, in random order. Sim check, HR, 2 pilots. No technical questions, but wanted hard examples of leadership, operational decisions, career dissapointments, what you like about your boss/company, then what you don't like about them. Customer service example. Ever gone "above and beyond" to help someone.
Sim check hasn't changed. AirInc prep is pricey but well worth it. I also went to my local flight school since they have a single seat Elite sim that can be set to the MD-81 just like what you'll fly at the interview. This helped alot for only $20/hour! Still it was worth it to get the AirInc sim prep since they have a copy of a profile that is darn close and they have all the gouge power setting, config change times and expectations, etc. I think that all profiles for our group were on ATL 26L. One thing that was different from the AirInc gouge was that he had all of us do a 30 degree AOB turn with a 1000 FPM descent, reverse @180 heading change then climb @1000 FPM, return to original heading. Navy guys, remember the old S-3 pattern? That's what it is without the clock timing.
Overall it was a great experience and I hope they call. Should be about 14 days they said.
Good luck to the rest of you!
Catfish
I just got back from an interview with AirTran yesterday. What a great overall experience. This was the first interviews they have done since last fall. No significant changes.
Started with the standard company info brief. May-June start date? No info on whether the classes would be 737 or 717. That decision is made at the class start. Looking to hire 150 for this year.
There were nine of us in the group. I was the only military guy. Others were varied civilian backgrounds. Some flying 747s overseas, some turboprop, I think 1 CRJ guy. Everyone in the group had a letter of rec from someone in the company.
4 part interview, in random order. Sim check, HR, 2 pilots. No technical questions, but wanted hard examples of leadership, operational decisions, career dissapointments, what you like about your boss/company, then what you don't like about them. Customer service example. Ever gone "above and beyond" to help someone.
Sim check hasn't changed. AirInc prep is pricey but well worth it. I also went to my local flight school since they have a single seat Elite sim that can be set to the MD-81 just like what you'll fly at the interview. This helped alot for only $20/hour! Still it was worth it to get the AirInc sim prep since they have a copy of a profile that is darn close and they have all the gouge power setting, config change times and expectations, etc. I think that all profiles for our group were on ATL 26L. One thing that was different from the AirInc gouge was that he had all of us do a 30 degree AOB turn with a 1000 FPM descent, reverse @180 heading change then climb @1000 FPM, return to original heading. Navy guys, remember the old S-3 pattern? That's what it is without the clock timing.
Overall it was a great experience and I hope they call. Should be about 14 days they said.
Good luck to the rest of you!
Catfish
