PACE interview for MESA

[flya380]

Some of you guys attended the PACE interview for MESA recently?
Any info appreciated........

 

[tataki]

Are you thinking about doing the PACE program or you allready enrolled.

 

[flya380]

just planning.....

 

[wheelsup]

Some of you guys attended the PACE interview for MESA recently?
Any info appreciated........

There's a sim eval where you fly a pattern handed to you, no memorization required, just read it and fly. Then you do an ILS here in FMN. The pattern is scored, don't be off an altitude, airspeed, heading, vsi and you'll come out good. ILS is cake, not even scored, no procedures required, we tell you when to do everything. You start at the OM.

Not sure about what happens at the college. I think a psyc test and maybe a written test, but I'm not sure.

~wheelsup

 

[Tazman282]

There's a sim eval where you fly a pattern handed to you, no memorization required, just read it and fly. Then you do an ILS here in FMN. The pattern is scored, don't be off an altitude, airspeed, heading, vsi and you'll come out good. ILS is cake, not even scored, no procedures required, we tell you when to do everything. You start at the OM.

Not sure about what happens at the college. I think a psyc test and maybe a written test, but I'm not sure.

~wheelsup

I think the ILS is also scored but he may be correct. I know they have a print out at the end. The written is 30 questions based on the Instrument Written, straight forward ?'s nothing tricky. There is also a one on one interview. Nothing hard just be yourself. If you have any questions PM me. Good luck.

 

[labbats]

http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/content/view/74/18/

Check out those payrates, boys! I'm sure you'll be calling your significant other with tales of pride as you wait in the ORD penalty box without pay. Bragging to the others in the food stamp line about your 4 hour layover in an airport that you don't have a crew room in. People will congratulate you on your wise move to skip earning your keep through flight instruction and supporting the low wages offered by the bottom paying airline. Your payments to the loan officer will be paid with a smile as you spend the other half of your paychecks on Ramen and re-read that newspaper that someone left laying around in the crew room. Hats off to you, Mesa!

 

[daddysquared]

It never ceases to amaze me how many pilots are crybabies. Whaa Whaa, he skipped being a flight instructor, flying freight, et. al., and is now bringing down the industry single handedly by flying for Mesa. I don't know what makes me more hesitant about pursuing a flying career, the low wages to start (whether that be instructing, flying freight, ANY regional airline, etc.), or having to put up with the miserable turds that I may potentially run into and have to fly with. If a guy goes to PACE and drops $20K to skip flying the pattern in a 152 with a student while earning $15K a year for a couple years of flight instructing, that is his choice. If he wants to build time doing traffic watch or aerial photography or banner towing or dropping parachuters out of planes, then that is his right as well. Some guys drop close to $200K attending Embry/Riddle. You can't fault them for that. The way you choose to walk is up to each individual, and no way is the "right" way for everyone. Man I hope the majority of the pilots out there do NOT frequent this board and piss and moan about any and every little thing. Perhaps Labbats is just having a bad day. Hope things get better for you, kid.

Peace

 

[tataki]

http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/content/view/67/18/
http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/content/view/64/18/
http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/content/view/81/18/

The other ones are not that much better...

 

[mayday1]

People will congratulate you on your wise move to skip earning your keep through flight instruction and supporting the low wages offered by the bottom paying airline.

Labbats, I hear some of your points, but the low wages offered by the airlines are not because of PFT, PACE, ERAU, GIA, or any other flight school/program/whathaveyou... the low wages are supply and demand.. throngs of qualified pilots (including CFIs) willingly line up to take $18k/yr FO slots at the regionals... that's what's driving low wages, not PFT.

If you were a business owner and you had a potential market of qualified, eager, candidates willing to work for peanuts, wouldn't you pay peanuts?

 

[labbats]

I'm just relaying what I hear the Mesa crews saying on the crew vans we share. I also personally disagree that paying twice as much for flight training makes you more competent to fly a jet.