Wal Mart Interview

[On Your Six]

Do the Lear 45 pilots also fly the Lear 31 and 35? I understand that the 31 and 35 have basically "common" cockpits. Sounds like nice variety....

 

[laser]

The 31/31A and 35 have common type ratings (LR Jet), but cockpits and systems can be quite different (especially among Lear 35's depending on the serial#). Pilots go to recurrent twice annually, alternating 31A and 35 training sessions.

45 pilots also fly the 31 and 35. The 45 will eventually replace the 35's in the WM fleet.

Roy, search for recent WalMart treads for descriptions of the 3 day interview.

 

[h25b]

Crewing the 45 is just going on an as needed bases for the time being, doesn't make sense to train tons of people on the thing when we have only two of them.

As for the cockpits, the 31A's are all pretty much the same. The 35's do vary a little, but they are pretty similar and cockpit wise fairly common to the older "straight 31's" that we have.

As for growth... It seems to go by the percentage of trip requests they deny along with company performance.

As for crews they are really faithful about keeping the pilots/planes ratio appropriate for the amount of flying we do and obviously replace for retirements, attrition, etc...

 

[Ol'Roy]

anybody else getting nervous yet?