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Put it this way... Senior management and senior check pilots have walked in things with the MOST GLOWING LORs and can't get people called for interviews.... if you got one one your own then be very happy/proud since you lucked out some way. All I know is that those paired with check airmen the next 6+ months better look FWD to a lot of AVL days!
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Lots of questions on this thread, but I didn't see any responses.
First of all, congrats on the interview. I remember well every interview call/letter I ever received and I jumped around like a lunatic.
Use the gouge on aviationinterviews.com. Study applicable parts of the Instrument and ATP test prep. Study the AIM and FARs. Look up samples of the IQ test online, just so you can get some techniques going. Read a couple of the aviation interview books out there. Practice telling your "how I got into aviation" story.
I would affirm what was said regarding the interview being a personality check. Airplanes don't crash because someone doesn't know the holding speed above 14,000 feet. They crash when two folks sitting in the pointy end aren't getting along well enough for one of them to speak up. Be yourself, but bring out those parts that you believe make you most attractive.
If you haven't flown a PC before, buy an hour of time just to get the hang of it. Departure, turns, level off, hold, ILS, pretty basic and just use any light twin procedure with which you're comfortable.
Bases: LGA, BUF, GSO, MCO, IND, STL, CMH. Rumors of BOS reopening if we pick up more northeast flying for DAL or US.
Commuting is your call. I did a two leg commute from IND to Charlottesville, VA for PDT as an FO, and it was horrible. Being gone is the worst part of this job, and commuting makes you gone more. We do have a commuting clause, which may ease the pain. I'm living in base with CHQ and I can't believe the QOL difference. I'd like to think I'll never commute again, but I probably will. Upgrade pay is quite motivating.
Pay is 21, 28, 32, and 33 for year 1-4 FOs until our next pay raise which is 10/04. FO pay tops out at 36 (2007), but by that year we could have a new contract. The lowest captain pay on the property is 45 (for 1 year captains, which don't exist). 5 year captains make 54 on the small jet and 61 on the biggun. If you want to dream, 2007 pay for 90 seat aircraft is $119 if you've been here 20 years (long live the lifers!).
Good company, well diversified, aggressive management, good pilots, good safety record, nice airplanes, pilot labor issues recently settled. Pay isn't the highest, but I've flown for two airlines that had industry leading pay for the equipment (PDT and UAL) and personally witnessed the unsustainability of those contracts.
Drop me a private message if you have more questions. Best of luck to all who are preparing for interviews anywhere, I know it's an exhilarating and exhausting process...
W8N
Lots of questions on this thread, but I didn't see any responses.
First of all, congrats on the interview. I remember well every interview call/letter I ever received and I jumped around like a lunatic.
Use the gouge on aviationinterviews.com. Study applicable parts of the Instrument and ATP test prep. Study the AIM and FARs. Look up samples of the IQ test online, just so you can get some techniques going. Read a couple of the aviation interview books out there. Practice telling your "how I got into aviation" story.
I would affirm what was said regarding the interview being a personality check. Airplanes don't crash because someone doesn't know the holding speed above 14,000 feet. They crash when two folks sitting in the pointy end aren't getting along well enough for one of them to speak up. Be yourself, but bring out those parts that you believe make you most attractive.
If you haven't flown a PC before, buy an hour of time just to get the hang of it. Departure, turns, level off, hold, ILS, pretty basic and just use any light twin procedure with which you're comfortable.
Bases: LGA, BUF, GSO, MCO, IND, STL, CMH. Rumors of BOS reopening if we pick up more northeast flying for DAL or US.
Commuting is your call. I did a two leg commute from IND to Charlottesville, VA for PDT as an FO, and it was horrible. Being gone is the worst part of this job, and commuting makes you gone more. We do have a commuting clause, which may ease the pain. I'm living in base with CHQ and I can't believe the QOL difference. I'd like to think I'll never commute again, but I probably will. Upgrade pay is quite motivating.
Pay is 21, 28, 32, and 33 for year 1-4 FOs until our next pay raise which is 10/04. FO pay tops out at 36 (2007), but by that year we could have a new contract. The lowest captain pay on the property is 45 (for 1 year captains, which don't exist). 5 year captains make 54 on the small jet and 61 on the biggun. If you want to dream, 2007 pay for 90 seat aircraft is $119 if you've been here 20 years (long live the lifers!).
Good company, well diversified, aggressive management, good pilots, good safety record, nice airplanes, pilot labor issues recently settled. Pay isn't the highest, but I've flown for two airlines that had industry leading pay for the equipment (PDT and UAL) and personally witnessed the unsustainability of those contracts.
Drop me a private message if you have more questions. Best of luck to all who are preparing for interviews anywhere, I know it's an exhilarating and exhausting process...
W8N
Wow, those pay rates are awesome!!! You guys must be so proud. You came from PDT? You must have been one of those guys that was just there for about a week and talk like you commuted there for years. I don't know anybody at PDT that would talk about those pay rates so optimistically. I was under the impression that the worst day at PDT would be better than the best at Chit-talk.
Can WE SAY jealous???? Maybe you're so unhappy at your job it pains you to see people try to get hired by a better company than yours. Where do you work Lance? I bet I can rip about something at your comany.
Oh BTW, I have friends at PDT also. Most have asked for me to walk their resume in for them at CHQ. Do you even know who PDT is slick??
Oh BTW, I have friends at PDT also. Most have asked for me to walk their resume in for them at CHQ. Do you even know who PDT is slick??
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Hi Dasburt!
Make sure to go to www.aptap.org-its' for helo guys. U can get a lot of hiring help there.
CLiff
DTW
Make sure to go to www.aptap.org-its' for helo guys. U can get a lot of hiring help there.
CLiff
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You have no idea...I miss my friends at PDT, but the work atmosphere there compared with CHQ is night and day. PDT was very difficult place to work. Other than the pay and medical benefits (old man Henson was a believer in health coverage) PDT was a trying place to work in very other aspect. CHQ lacks the camerdrie and history of PDT, but that's a small price to pay to know that you have a job in two weeks. PDT exists to cover flying until U can farm it out to other organizations. That is the truth. That sucks, and it permiates the entire organization.
You have no idea...I miss my friends at PDT, but the work atmosphere there compared with CHQ is night and day. PDT was very difficult place to work. Other than the pay and medical benefits (old man Henson was a believer in health coverage) PDT was a trying place to work in very other aspect. CHQ lacks the camerdrie and history of PDT, but that's a small price to pay to know that you have a job in two weeks. PDT exists to cover flying until U can farm it out to other organizations. That is the truth. That sucks, and it permiates the entire organization.
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