ASA interview

[PingPong]

Hey everyone. I have an interview coming up with ASA. I've read the gouges and have stuldied my butt off. Just wondered if anyone has any last minute advice on what to expect. Thanks in advance....

 

[jstyle13]

Don't brick in the sim. No really if you know the gouges down pat you're good. You'll smile on the inside as your interviewer reads you questions right off the internet and you know every single one. From what I hear and my experience all you have to do is: do good on the questions, have an upbeat attitude and fly the sim with some proficency (they don't expect you to fly perfect).

Relax and be yourself, all the rest will fall into place

jj

 

[No Delay]

don't chase the ILS. They grade the ILS approach on the sim ride. Not really grade, but that is what decides if you go to step two.

The RJ is very, very pitch sensitive. Trim it out and be gentle and you will do fine.

 

[bailout]

Ive heard several guys who busted the sim ride were told later that the sim is made available the day before to practice in. (of course it costs a few $$, but may be worth it.)

 

[shamrock]

Doesn't have anything to do with the actual interview, but make sure you have all the required documents (and copies of the documents) handy going in. Double and triple-check them against the list you were likely provided with. My interviewer made it a point to tell me how happy he was that we were able to get the paperwork details done in half the time it normally it would take. I later got a peek at my application and the only interview comment on it was "Very well prepared. Hire this guy".

Now I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed (as Bailout can attest to), so I have to think that making the interviewers job easier helped make a difference in my hiring. It was very easy to do and didn't require anything but a little time and attention.

And make sure you have a current First Class medical.

 

[Fracster]

Hey ASA guys,

Can one of you help me track down a friend I lost track of a few years back. Send me a PM if you dont mind so I dont have to post his name across the web.

 

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Shamrock gave you some good advice there. Of course, make sure you have your passport, can't get in the sim ( post 9/11 ) without it.

Be professional, but easy going. Be the kind of person you would want to fly a month of 5 day trips with. Basic proficiency is expected, so what makes the difference between one pilot and another is attitude.

Are they doing all the interviews in the RJ Sim? They used to mix it up depending on what was available. The ATR is easier because it is similar to most round dial airplanes and it is such a dog that it is hard to over control the sim. Flap deployment is modelled poorly, so expect to go a dot high ( gain about 200 to 300 feet ) with each flap selection unless you get on the nose down trim and fly nose down 4 degrees, or so.

The RJ sim flies a lot like the real airplane. Lightning quick roll rate and much less sensitive in pitch. Using the pitch trim makes it easier to fly smoothly, but a newbie can get into PIO with the trim because there is a second or two delay. Imagine a nose heavy Bonanza and you kind of know what it is going to feel like. It is a swept wing airplane, so stay off the rudder.

Good luck - you should do fine - they need pilots right now.

 

[ifly4food]

Shamrock gave you some good advice there. Of course, make sure you have your passport, can't get in the sim ( post 9/11 ) without it.

Be professional, but easy going. Be the kind of person you would want to fly a month of 5 day trips with. Basic proficiency is expected, so what makes the difference between one pilot and another is attitude.

Are they doing all the interviews in the RJ Sim? They used to mix it up depending on what was available. The ATR is easier because it is similar to most round dial airplanes and it is such a dog that it is hard to over control the sim. Flap deployment is modelled poorly, so expect to go a dot high ( gain about 200 to 300 feet ) with each flap selection unless you get on the nose down trim and fly nose down 4 degrees, or so.

The RJ sim flies a lot like the real airplane. Lightning quick roll rate and much less sensitive in pitch. Using the pitch trim makes it easier to fly smoothly, but a newbie can get into PIO with the trim because there is a second or two delay. Imagine a nose heavy Bonanza and you kind of know what it is going to feel like. It is a swept wing airplane, so stay off the rudder.

Good luck - you should do fine - they need pilots right now.

What Fins said, except that the RJ sim is EXTREMELY pitch sensitive. Fly it with your fingertips and use the armrests to keep from overcontrolling it. Use the autopilot as much as possible if they let you. They'll be impressed if you know how to use it, then they'll make you turn it off and hand fly.

 

[AlwaysLearning]

Shamrock gave you some good advice there. Of course, make sure you have your passport, can't get in the sim ( post 9/11 ) without it.

Can you point to that rule? I attended training at my 121 airline without having ever had a passport and no big deal. ASA is the first place I have heard/talked to that flipped out about not having a passport.

There are 15 and 20 year captains here that dont have passports and go to training every year?

 

[sweptback]

Can you point to that rule? I attended training at my 121 airline without having ever had a passport and no big deal. ASA is the first place I have heard/talked to that flipped out about not having a passport.

There are 15 and 20 year captains here that dont have passports and go to training every year?

The rule is that they have to verify your citizenship or ability to be trained in a sim. They can do that many ways, it's just that the passport is the way ASA chose to do it.

 

[~~~^~~~]

Can you point to that rule?

It may be ASA's rule, but it also ASA's interview. A good pilot with 121PIC, LOR from me and two Asst. Chief Pilots was turned down because he failed to bring his passport to his sim eval. Only trying to help by passing along the info.

ASA is an international airline and you have to have a passport anyway to work here. They even made us ATR guys have one.

 

[AlwaysLearning]

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[wahoo250]

Your a Pilot...Get a passport. FCC license too if you dont already have that. Most require them both.

 

[bailout]

>>There are 15 and 20 year captains here that dont have passports and go to training every year?<<


Uh, not at ASA. You can not go to any training event, as in ground school, recurrent, sim etc, without a passport.

 

[Medeco]

I am betting it is part of the CFR's that was written for the TSA after 911.

There was a big stink about a year ago, with an ASA pilot who came to recurrent training without his flightbag which had his passport in it. The instructor gave him a no show for the entire 4 days when all he had to do is run to the crew lounge across the street to get it. The problem was that others had done the same thing without any penalty.

Medeco

 

[AlwaysLearning]

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[FL000]

Speaking of passports, mine's due in 12 months, so I'll get another sometime this year. Are we allowed to keep the current one, or get it back, after obtaining the new one?

 

[da90drivr]

The expired passport is returned with the new one.

 

[atrdriver]

ASA is an international airline and you have to have a passport anyway to work here. They even made us ATR guys have one.

You KNOW that's just so we could get into Alabama.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

You KNOW that's just so we could get into Alabama.

I thought it was so we could get out of Alabama.

As far as the passports go, it is written in our Standard Practices that all crew members will carry "a valid, unexpired passport."

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Hey everyone. I have an interview coming up with ASA. I've read the gouges and have stuldied my butt off. Just wondered if anyone has any last minute advice on what to expect. Thanks in advance....

If you interview on the first Wednesday of the month, make sure you get some of Papa Smurf's BBQ.

 

[ifly4food]

Bite me, Ill get my passport when I need it. Always had an FCC license.

Dude! What's with the attitude? I hope you're not trying to get on here at ASA!

 

[AlwaysLearning]

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[ifly4food]

I had no attitude at all, I was simply curious as to the passport rule, then this tool comes along and TELLS me what I should have, I dug through part 61 and found no requirements for having a passport. No disrespect to anyone at ASA was intended.

But on a note, I did the phone interview with ASA and was sorely turned off by it. The passport thing was no biggie, it was already on its way, but what did turn me off was being asked if I had any SODAs for my medical, yes I do for color blindness. She then went on to tell me about how a captain upgrade washed out of training and blamed it on the fact that he was color blind.

First it shouldn't matter if I have a SODA or not, if there is no limitation on my medical or the SODA its a non issue. Second why is someone telling me, not an employee, about someone elses training problems. If that is the way things are run over there, no thank you.

Best of luck to you guys at ASA, but attitudes like the guy telling me to get a passport and then someone in HR telling tales of uprgrade failures, just gave me a bad feeling.

I agree with you, it sounds like you're better off not coming to ASA. You would not be happy here.

Regarding the captain you mention, he did indeed get washed out of training, and blamed it on colorblindness. The problem is that he had a SODA, and never reported it to ASA because he wasn't required to (A SODA is not a limitiation, and ASA only asked for waivers and limitations then). This captain was terminated because ASA accused him of falsifying his employment application by not mentioning the SODA. He filed a grievance and after 9 months of unemployment, was reinstated with full back pay by an arbitrator. That captain is currently working as an RJ captain.

Because of the black eye the company recieved over this, they now ask about SODAs as well as waivers and limitations.

Just in case you wanted to know.

 

[Tim47SIP]

Keeplearning

I agree with you, it sounds like you're better off not coming to ASA. You would not be happy here.

Ifly's is right. You wont like it here. Most of the guys here would not want to have to listen to you for any length of time. Have fun wherever your interviews take you.

 

[AlwaysLearning]

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[wms]

I agree with you, it sounds like you're better off not coming to ASA. You would not be happy here.

Ifly's is right. You wont like it here. Most of the guys here would not want to have to listen to you for any length of time. Have fun wherever your interviews take you.

Not liking it here is a requirement to be here if you listen to the talk in the crew room. Sounds like you'd fit right in. As far as the passport, ASA requires it due to int'l ops, but we go overboard requiring it at every training event. Most airlines don't, but we tend to go to extremes.

 

[AlwaysLearning]

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[FL000]

Hey thinskin, please stay away from ASA. I don't wanna have to babysit your a$$ if you slip through the cracks here and get a job. Thanks.