Sim Evaluations

[Patriot328]

I was hand flying an approach into TPA a week or two ago and the CA asked if I'd like the APP armed... I said sure whatever, I have the FD off anyway, knock yourself out. He looked shocked.... I'm not advocating shooting a raw data ILS to mins just to check the size of your schlong if you have all the avail data, but damnit if you can't fly a simple visual approach.>>>@!>

Amazing thing is, on that 4day domestic trip, I flew more legs and did more landings than I normally do in a month flying international... somethin to think about.

 

[Occam's Razor]

Then take the candidate on a 3 day camping trip. See if he carries his load and makes you think you could spend a week with him. - Six

'kay...am I the only one who peed his pants reading the "3 day camping trip", "carries his load", and "spend a week with him" parts?

I am?

Sorry!

 

[Occam's Razor]

Real sim checks:

jetBlue: 1st half - While evaluator flies the sim, the candidate must identify certain items on the Lower ECAM without touching the screen itself! 2nd half - With a 20 gallon trash bag, clean 18 rows of the Door Training Sim cabin. (Points deducted for stopping to read the the paper planted comics-page-up in Row 11. Candidate fails if his lips move as he reads the paper, or if he appears to laugh at the Family Circus cartoon)

NWA: Candidate must pre-flight the sim while taking multiple cell phone calls from the evaluator. Points given for remaining calm or inventing unique curse words (eg: "Monkey Butter!") Points deducted if candidate grabs crash axe.

Delta: Sim conducted at the Waffle House near Fort Widget. Candidates must order a complete breakfast without commenting on the coronary impact index of the only menu selections, the threatening tattoos on the cook, or the octogenerian age of the waitress. (Candidate disqualified if he/she has a moustache)

FedEx: Pass/Fail profile flown in a DC-10 sim and consists of a single landing in a 5-knot crosswind. Successful candidates are those who can keep the aircraft upright and on the pavement for 2/3d's of the landing rollout.

SWA: Sim consists of showing your B737 type rating and watching the evaluator read your rec letters while you squirm in the seat and pray they don't realize you wrote them yourself.

American: Vas mich nicht umbring mach mich starker!

GIA: Sim is situated on a treadmill that moves at the same speed....

 

[Tail Gunner Joe]

That is lol funny Occam's,
But you forgot to describe CAL sim eval...in a broken down MD80 sim with instructor telling you it's okay for new hires to go without insurance because there are no hospitals on Guam anyways.

 

[Buckeye]

To Sim Check, or not to Sim Check, that is the question. It is two different philosophies to interviewing, one is old school thinking the other is new and inovative. On any given day any one can fail or pass a sim check. To attempt to fly and aircraft you know nothing about shows that either you adapt well or stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. I believe more and more airlines are moving away from sim checks and more toward physological evals and HR based interviews.