Got the call from ACC for interviews in two weeks

[joepilot29]

About how long is everyone waitng from the time submitting an application to the interview call? I was called a year ago, went up there and proceeded to miserably screw my missed approach up on the sim. That thing is tricky. Even had to reboot the thing. I hope I can get another shot at it.

 

[texarkana]

anybody get the job.... ??? the sim they have is a joke...Im waiting on a letter/call.. everybody is real nice except the guy running the sim he is a dumbass. They have you use approach plates in a book. you cant take them out. overall easy stuff.

Be careful, I think our whole company is on this forum!

 

[Wankel7]

letter....reading past posts it should be easy enough for the people in the office to figure out who you are. Do you honestly expect to get hired after posting how bad you think the interview process is?

Don't worry T-Gates...they already figured out who was making the posts.

Wankel

 

[gto2002]

only a couple of us. Sorry about the sim with a mind of its own

 

[cargojunkie]

If ........

 

[Wankel7]

anybody get the job.... ??? the sim they have is a joke...Im waiting on a letter/call.. everybody is real nice except the guy running the sim he is a dumbass. They have you use approach plates in a book. you cant take them out. overall easy stuff.

Guess what homeslice...we use NOS plates in the books here. If you don't like that format maybe you should point your nose somewhere else?

What was wrong with the, "Dumbass" running the sim?

Wankel

 

[cargojunkie]

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[Avalanche]

Wow...

you can make copies or if you have a route tear them out and keep a small binder that you can clip.
im sure if you fly a route you have it memorized for the most part.

the sim guy had a bad attitude, didnt provide any kind of help, left several times during the ride, just didnt seem to fit in with the other guys who where very nice, helpful and easy to talk to.

you must be friends with the guy.

I'm speechless...you know this is a relatively small company, right?

 

[aucfi]

the sim guy had a bad attitude, didnt provide any kind of help, left several times during the ride, just didnt seem to fit in with the other guys who where very nice, helpful and easy to talk to.

you must be friends with the guy.

Maybe that was the "sim guy's" motive. Maybe he wanted to test you by being no help and frequently leaving to see how you would react. And as far as not providing help, whats the FO going to do if the CA becomes incapacitated? Its a two pilot operation but if you come in with competent single pilot IFR skills your doing yourself and the company a favor.

 

[texarkana]

If they judge the ability to fly on that thing alot of good pilots didnt get the job. The guy runnig the sim younger overweight should act as fo since this is a crew airplane or let you take the plate out and use the clip. I should have took off declared a control and instrument malfuction got vectors back to JVL and wrote the sim up. vsi 1000 feet per min down straight and level alt. then 5 seconds later altitude down 400 feet. pull back vsi 0 3 seconds later stall horn 180 knots altitude then starts moving back the other way.

I would like to see the director of training fly the sim

From my understanding the sim is used to evaluate how well someone can deal with a very tricky IFR situation.... fly through a few thunderstorms and you will see what I mean. Nobody flies it perfectly, what they want to see is the ability to execute basic IFR skills and planning in spite of the sim.

you can make copies or if you have a route tear them out and keep a small binder that you can clip.
im sure if you fly a route you have it memorized for the most part.

the sim guy had a bad attitude, didnt provide any kind of help, left several times during the ride, just didnt seem to fit in with the other guys who where very nice, helpful and easy to talk to.

you must be friends with the guy.

Lets see...

Don't let the fact that the approach plate is in a book throw you off, its not that hard. And please don't expect a sim evaluator to give you too much help at an interview... they want to see you do the job. Please don't be bitter and blame the training dir., everybody gets turned down for jobs, just keep applying and you'll get in somewhere.