NJ App Acceptance

[ekuflyer]

I mailed in the application package the second week of December. I have still not received the "application accepted e-mail" I keep hearing about. Anyone?

 

[inthewind]

I mailed in the application package the second week of December. I have still not received the "application accepted e-mail" I keep hearing about. Anyone?

Same here!

 

[cherry20's]

ditto! Dec 17. mailed it

 

[cherry20's]

Must be my lucky day. Right after I posted that, I got the App. accepted email!! WoooooHooooo. Got the ball rolling. It said they would let me know if I was selected for an interview and in the meantime to send in my DMV records to a fax number. Good luck to yall! Hopefully you will hear today too.

 

[Motorradfahrer]

I mailed my app in 2nd week in November, got the email on Jan 2nd....nothing since then

 

[Air1980]

Likewise, mailed mine in mid december, and got the 'application received' email today. Will be faxing them a copy of DMV asap! Any ideas as to how long from now till the big day?

 

[cherry20's]

I heard someone say 3-5 months?

 

[Air1980]

Good, all the more time to study those NDB holds.....

 

[cherry20's]

Is that part of the sim ride? I shoot NDB's every now and then, but a hold too? Come on, like your ever gonna use that at NJ.

 

[CA1900]

Is that part of the sim ride? I shoot NDB's every now and then, but a hold too? Come on, like your ever gonna use that at NJ.

Never say never.

We serve thousands of airports, some of which don't have ILS or VOR approaches. Or take the approach I did into Portland, Maine, a while back, where the Localizer was out of service, and the NDB approach was the only thing available.

FMS's can and do fail, and the databases sometimes expire on the road before we can get them updated.

Couple an MEL'd FMS with one of the many approaches with an NDB hold for the missed, and you'll see where it's still a necessary skill. We're not likely to cancel or delay an owner's flight if the FMS dies on the way in to pick him up.

That, and it's an excellent evaluator of basic instrument flying, which is why it's part of the interview sim. You'd be surprised at how many people botch the holding entry and turn the wrong way (including a friend of mine, who ended up not getting offered the job).

 

[sioux1]

Same here. Downloaded app without flight time worksheet, handwritten, sent in about Dec 12th. Recieved app accepted e-mail today. Excited but patiently waiting.

 

[Air1980]

Excellent way of putting it Sioux. Same here....
Anyway, back to those NDB holds - just remember all bearings are TO the station - then dig out the old thumb and start turning!

 

[blueskies8]

Is that part of the sim ride? I shoot NDB's every now and then, but a hold too? Come on, like your ever gonna use that at NJ.

Probably more often than you care to realize. There are many airports in Canada and Latin America that don't have and ILS, VOR or GPS so you are left with an NDB and sometimes the ILS is just OTS. I too have had an FMS failure leaving me with only the NDB for an airport. NDB navigation is an invaluable skill to have and one that we should never forget. If you can keep your SA with an NDB then you stand a pretty good chance of understanding everything else much better. If they don't change the sim ride then the hold is an NDB hold on the LOC. Pretty easy.

 

[727C47]

ndbs are still part of our non-sched curriculum too,they are still out there and you never know.

 

[IdRtherBsailing]

I personally think all sim rides are a waste of time on interviews. We all know an ace can have a crap day in the sim and a Sh## bag can have the best sim ride of his life. If people truly have the type of experience they claim to have when called for these interviews there is no reason to do a sim eval. But thats life.

 

[JungleJett]

I mailed in the application package the second week of December. I have still not received the "application accepted e-mail" I keep hearing about. Anyone?

Check your PM's

 

[ekuflyer]

Must be one of those days, as I was reading the replies to this thread this morning I got the e-mail. Its going to be a good weekend.

Thanks

 

[ekuflyer]

Check your PM's

Don't have any. Send it again.

 

[inthewind]

App accepted January 18th!

 

[JungleJett]

Don't have any. Send it again.

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