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[Spartus]

I got a message from Comair today, have to call them back tomorow, i'm pretty sure there gonna set up an interview. Does anyone know how long the wait is from congrats letter till a class date?

 

[stearman]

I interviewed 20 Nov. I got the congrats letter about 10 days later. I'm happily swimming in the New Hire pool. I'm thinking I will get a class date in Feb. sometime.

 

[rk772]

What was the wait time from resume to phone call for interview. I had a captain walk one in a few weeks ago.

 

[stearman]

I got the invite to the interview at the DC Air Inc. Job Fair so no phone calls were involved in my case.

 

[rk772]

I'm going to the DFW job fair next week with resume and Captain LOR in hand. Wish me luck

 

[Spartus]

I just got off the phone with them and they told me it was about 3 weeks for a class.

 

[stearman]

3 weeks!? They told us at the Nov. interview to expect about three months. I just got off the phone with Comair yesterday and they told me to expect Feb.

 

[sidseal]

Don't feel too bad, it took me six months from interview to class. Trust me, it's worth the wait. Growth is excellent over here. Good luck. Hey stearman, where were you based on the C-5?

 

[Rich Man]

3 Months... 3 Weeks..???

you think either 3 weeks or 3 months is too long????

They told you 3 months and turned out to be 2-4, 3 weeks and turned out to be less than that or more than that???

Hey, I interviewed Jun 20th, 2002, and through no fault of Comair, Im still in the pool.... you can see the wrinkless in my skin from a mile away. Right now I think Im the only civilian in the pool with enough pool seniority to bid for lifesaver

Yet, im still here, hired, waiting and hoping that my class will soon come, I know this company is worth the wait, and this is the job I wanted so if in the mean time I have to settle for "something else" while I can begin class, then that's what I'll do. But you bet your's.... Im glad at least Im in the pool already, and even though Im not so sure that light at the end of the tunnel is a train or not, Im glad all I have to do is wait.

For those of you in the pool be patient, you are in a good place and soon to be in a better one. The way I see this wait is like when you first got to that magical 1000th hour or 1200 or 1500 depending on your goal, and you looked back and realized that you still didn't have neither enough time, nor enough experience, and that in the big picture 1 Hr or 10 or 11 or 1000 ain't really that big a deal, the same way 3 weeks, 3 months, 7 months or the 10 that might take me is not that big a deal either, it's just time, and you have more time than life anyway...

I think the harvest of this wait will be great and it will come exactlly at the right time, not sooner, not a moment later....

be patient, and enjoy the pool, I've been swiming a lot and P-ing enough that the water would be warm when you got here


Rich!

 

[stearman]

sideseal,

I'm not a C-5 guy yet. I have been hired by an Air Force Reserve Sqdn out of Dover. Unfortunately I'm a stop lossed Marine right now. That's holding things up a little. I was hoping to be in an Altus C-5 class in the fall but now...who knows. Are you still flying the C-5 in the Reserves or the ANG?

 

[avrodriver]

What's the deal???

Stearman and Rich Man, I don't know how Comair really does it but I'll tell you right now that one of our f/o's at my company interviewed the second week of December and is starting class next mon Jan 20th. I was reading my acceptance letter and it says candidates are placed into classes based on date of interview, have any of you called and asked what the deal is?? Can anyone shed some light on this mystery?? Thanks AD

 

[Spartus]

Just wondering if this whole preferential class date thing has anything to do with the experience of the candidate? something along the lines that they would rather put a person who has 121 experience into class before someone who just came off the street as a CFI?

 

[Broke in CVG]

FYI.. I just finished a trip with a Capt that is on the interview board. They said that the only CFIs they were hiring were from the Academy and that was only because we have a contract to do so. No more CFIs off the street.

 

[avrodriver]

Interview dates/ class dates

K, so I still haven't quite figured out for sure whether I have things confused or not, are there guys out there that interviewed before the second week of Dec that are still not in a class?? Thanks. AD

 

[Rich Man]

Yes

Yes I interviewed Jun 20th 2002
and by Nov 26-28th there was also at least 2 military guys in the pool who where still waiting to be released from MIL to get a class date and me.

Im still in the pool untill the DOJ and TSA figures out how do to background checks for no U.S. Citizens who whish to train in A/C over 12,500 without prior experience.

Aparently the expertise of the INS and FBI is not enough.


Rich!