Recent Pinnacle Interviewed - Whats Up With The New Test?

[Daveman]

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[Lear70]

Crit AOA, I also heard its 23-27 degrees, but thats not an option on the new test, you get 10, 46,60 and methinks 80 or 90.

Amazing... no number exists in ANY of our books but they'll try to assign one anyway out of their extensive wisdom (I'm willing to bet not ONE of them has an engineering BACHELOR'S degree, much less a Ph.D).

Don't sweat it; this from the same people who brought us 15-20% of the questions on the last test about NDB's - we don't even shoot NDB approaches raw data - we use the FMS and back it up with the NDB bearing pointers up.

Out of those answers I'd guess around 46 deg clean and normal cruise weights. Even 23-27 is a normal climb after takeoff when you're very light (although at FL 41,0 that might be it), and I don't think I've ever seen 60 deg or higher nose-up in this airplane, even in the sim, without the stall coming QUICKLY afterwards. Doesn't the EADI "declutter" after 60 deg nose-up? (30 deg nose-down, or 45 deg bank angle exceeded if memory serves).

 

[Carl_Spackler]

I wouldn't suprise me if none of those answers are correct. 10 is too low, but 46 degrees AOA.... that sounds way too high. Maybe they want you to choose the "most correct answer" Or they put a question with no correct answer so it makes the test harder to pass.

The only other possibility is "that's the way we did it on the Saab"

 

[Skaz]

a gentleman who interviewd before me choose 45 degrees (sorry for my typo, its supposed to be 45 and not 46) and he got it wrong.
Now, from my albeit limited aviation general and technical knowledge, I highly doubt there excists any aircraft on this planet that can fly with its wings at 45 degree AOA and above. Methinks GA aircraft have a critAOA of around 14degrees, if I remember my CPL tech stuff, so I choose 10 degrees.

I could not see whether I got that particular one right or not, but I passed the test.

 

[PeanuckleCRJ]

It's about 10 degrees.... when you do your stalls in the sim you end up about 8 degrees nose up everytime in each configuration when the shaker fires... and you're in level flight...so that's probably the best estimate out there...


Lear... 45 degrees!?!?!? haha.... think about that one a bit more Sure we climb at about 15-20 degrees nose up but you are scooting up about 2500 fpm.... youre not in a level flight path. Your AOA in that situation is about 5-6 degrees probably....


Get the chevrons on the PFD at 30 nose up and 20 nose down....

 

[Lear70]

It's about 10 degrees.... when you do your stalls in the sim you end up about 8 degrees nose up everytime in each configuration when the shaker fires... and you're in level flight...so that's probably the best estimate out there...

The pitch angle is different for each configuration, around 8 deg pitch-up clean, 12 deg pitch departure stall demo (don't remember what landing stall demo pitch angle is for the shaker).

Lear... 45 degrees!?!?!? haha.... think about that one a bit more Sure we climb at about 15-20 degrees nose up but you are scooting up about 2500 fpm.... youre not in a level flight path. Your AOA in that situation is about 5-6 degrees probably....

Yeah you're right, I equated pitch attitude here to AOA and at those high speeds it "just ain't so". That's what I get for posting right after I wake up; should really have some coffee first.

 

[ILSJUNKIE]

I have an upcoming interview with Pinnacle. I am so excited. Does anyone have any advice for the interview?

 

[Way2Broke]

Any flight school with the word "Academy" in its name is over priced and for people with rich parents. Real pilots work their way up the food chain.

 

[PCL_128]

Any flight school with the word "Academy" in its name is over priced and for people with rich parents. Real pilots work their way up the food chain.

This crap always makes me laugh. You mean to tell me that if you're wealthy someday and have a son that wants to be a pilot that you won't help him out with paying for the schooling? You're just going to tell him that he needs to "work his way up the food chain" the hard way? What is so wrong about somebody's parents helping them out with their education? Isn't it part of the American dream to have enough money to send your kids to school for whatever they want to be? I just don't get people that think like you.

 

[BeechDawg]

This is crazy

You won't find those in a CRJ manual, they are just common knowledge that us with jet experience have.

So you with CRJ FTD time now have jet experience? Or is it that the airline prep program you completed prepared you for those questions. Either case, the COA of the CRJ, and the other questions that Pinnacle is asking is a test. They want to see how much effort those people will put into finding a job.

We should use these threads to help each other, if you know the answers to these questions then help out. Don't pat yourself on the back for knowing something that others don't. The entire purpose of this forum is to help pilots, not bash them

 

[Way2Broke]

Sorry I do not mean to hijack the thread, but I really do believe that people that work their way up the food chair appreciate what they have more. And yes I agree that we have to stand up for each other! But, its hard to stand up for people that are cornholing the people that are working their way up by short cutting them. But heck, no one said that chasing a career would be fair. There, I clarified my position. So whats up with this new test, haha.

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