COMAIR interview YIPEEEEEEE

[dasburt]

I finally got the call from Sharon Jones at COMAIR, last Friday.

Had to ask her twice if this was the "AIRLINE", she laughed. Talk about being caught off guard. I had just sat down after finishing a maintenance flight from hell. I guess I must have given her the right answers as she invited me to interview with COMAIR on 17 Feb. YAHOOO LIFE IS GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway. I would appreciate any information, gouge, insider information, hints, one liners, dos and don'ts and any and all suggestions you all fellow aviators can come up with. JUST ABOUT ANYTHING ANYONE WHO HAS INTERVIEWED AT COMAIR HAS TO OFFER as advice for the interview.

I have the entire gouge from aviationinterview. What a great site. So I am looking for unpublished advice.

She did ask me what airplane I was most familar with (Seneca). Does that mean my aircraft system questions will be about the Seneca?

Thanks in advance to all who respond.

DAS

 

[Gulfstream 200]

change your underwear.

 

[Midwest]

Congrats dasburt, good luck with the interview!

 

[Looking4Traffic]

The Comair Interview

There was not one question in my interview (or in any other person's that I know of) that was not published previously at aviationinterviews.com. The mistake that some people make is that they don't carefully go over those questions and prepare for the interview.

I prepared by drafting a list of every question mentioned in the Comair gouges over the previous year or so. Casting away the repeats, there was a total of about 75 questions. Then I wrote out a brief, outlined response to each question. I didn't write out formal answers because I didn't want my responses to sound too rehearsed but I did write down words or phrases that would trigger a genuine, honest and appropriate response. Then I tried out my responses on two trusted friends -- pilots whom had been through airline interviews before -- to see how my responses sounded to them. Expect that you may have to rethink several answers after listening to your friend's comments.

By the time you're done with this process, you'll be ready. Your interviewers will respect the fact that you've thought about their questions, that you prepared for the interview, and that you took the process seriously.

One more suggestion. Get a lot of sleep in the few days preceding the interview and especially, if possible, on the night before. By the time you finish the psych test, the interview, and the computer-games portion, you'll be beat.

Good luck.

 

[N813CA]

I also think having the ATP written done if you don't. They told a friend of mine that it was ok that he didn't have it and to come interview any ways. He didn't get the job. I don't think that was the only reason but it might be a point against you if you don't.

 

[dasburt]

Thanks for the info guys. I already have my ATP so that is not a problem

Looking4Traffic: Any chance you might have kept a copy of those 75 questions. If so, any chance of getting a copy. PM me when you have a chance.

Once again thanks to all that gave good advice. Looking forward to the interview

Das

 

[THE Flying Ace]

Are they still making you pay for your training?

Used to be somewhere around $12,000. Plus you have to take care of your expenses while they throw chump change at you during training.

 

[ACE]

Are they still making you pay for your training?

PFT at Comair ended in 1999.

 

[THE Flying Ace]

Good to hear that!

 

[007]

Congrats on the interview,

I am going in February, you'll have to let the thread know how it went.

 

[captainv]

dasburt,

L4T has some excellent advice, although i just went over my answers in my head. the technical questions are very straight-forward, so it's the open-ended HR questions that require the most thought. have you ever had an emergency/how did you handle it? what are your strengths/weaknesses as a pilot? why did you get into aviation? etc.

take a minute to think about your answers, draw on your own experience for examples, be honest, be yourself. don't try to give a canned answer or what you think they want to hear. all they do is interview people it's obvious when you start blowing smoke.

i think you'll find the interview process quite painless. except maybe the computer test, most of us came out of that saying, what the ...? that's normal.

good luck.

 

[N813CA]

I agree with Captainv. I just want to say I thought my interview went horrible and I have now been at Comair for 1 year. The hardest question that I had that was not in the gouge was. What if you were flying with a captain that was not wearing his hat. What would you do?

 

[FurloughedAgain]

How did you answer THAT one?

A LOT of the young guys carry their hats around. They have pretty, colored, crispy, American Idol haircuts that they dont want the hat to damage.

(i'm really just jealous because 10 years of wearing my hat has left me with a nice, shiny, solar reflective panel on the crown of my head. Wish I had American Idol hair.)

 

[ACE]

How did you answer THAT one?

Your job is not to be the hat police. I say absolutely nothing to FO's or CA's that do not wear thier hat. Outside of the cockpit CA's are not anyones boss. We all have the same Company issued operations manual. We should know the rules. My answer to the that question would be " Management makes the rules, I think it is there job to enforce such issues. It could possibly comprimise CRM and I would not want to do that, since hats are not a safety concern."

 

[FurloughedAgain]

(shrug) Sounds good to me.

Besides... It was the lunar gravity which caused my hair to fall out (not the hat.) Somebody told me once that wearing aluminum foil on your head during flight reflects the gravitational fields from the moon and you'll keep your hair longer.

or maybe it was the free hotel shampoo...

or maybe it was the headsets...

or maybe it was my wife...

or maybe it was multiple furloughs...

or maybe it was my dog trotting through the kitchen with muddy paws...

or maybe i'm just gettin' old. (sigh)

Where's my hat?

 

[2LT]

Congrats...

Dasburt -
Off topic: what's the pay at Comair these days?

 

[captainv]

>Off topic: what's the pay at Comair these days?

$250/week during the 3 months of training.

$22.50/hr your first year, guarantee of 75 or 76 hours per month, i can't remember exactly.

$35.75/hr second year on the 50-seater, a little higher for the 70.

a lineholder varies between 83-93 hours per month...

the pay rates go up a little in the summer. don't have the contract in front of me though...

 

[JetPilot_Mike]

Good luck to you.