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American Eagle
Pilot interview gouge and question bank
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Hiring Minimums
- Commercial Pilot Certification with Multi-engine and Instrument ratings
- Total fixed wing time to exceed 500 hours*
- Multi-engine fixed wing time in excess of 100 hours*
- Currently accepting applications with 350
hours total time/50 hours multi engine time
- Recent flying experience
- Current FAA First Class Medical
- FCC License
- Possess the ability to work in the US
- Possess the ability to travel in and out of the US to all cities/countries
served by American Eagle
- A valid passport is required
- Minimum age 21
* Flight time requirements are commensurate with experience
Pay
- $24/hr 72 hour guarantee; 75 hour reserve guarantee
- Hotel rooms, salary, and daily per diem are provided during
training
Bases and Fleet
- Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL;
San Juan, PR; New York, NY; Dallas, TX
- 30- ATR72; 25- CJR700; 39- EMB135; 59- ERJ140; 108-
EMB145; 30- Saab 340
- American Eagle is now guaranteeing
base/equipment picks
Interview Profile
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If doing a job fair interview
everything is the same, except you will go to
Dallas
on a future afternoon to complete the sim phase.
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Day starts at 0630 at American Eagle
Headquarters
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View video about American Eagle
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Submit logbooks for review
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Paperwork- A lot of paperwork
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Pulled out to do HR and Technical
(see question bank below)
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Lunch
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Sim is after lunch, potentially a
long lunch if there are a lot of interviewees
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All paperwork must be done
before you arrive. Take time to make sure it is all correct!
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Bring all material requested , there is additional paperwork on the interview
day
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Written test has been
discontinued
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Technical and HR interviews
are separate
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Simulator Evaluation
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No Full motion simulator evaluations any more.
Simulator evaluations are done on a Frasca as a Baron
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Take off out of LAX 24R, IP will give
you the controls at 80 knots
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Positive rate- gear up
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1000 feet- flaps up, climb checklist
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Level at
3000 feet
and maintain 200 knots
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Cruise checklist
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Proceed direct, or intercept radial
to the Seal Beach VOR and hold (ask IP to tune and ident)
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Use positive exchange of controls to
give him the plane so you can copy holding instructions
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Brief the hold entry, if it's
correct you may get vectors prior to entering the holding pattern
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Vectors to the LAX ILS 24R with the
flight director
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Slow, approach checklist
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Gear down, landing checklist
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Fly the missed approach (no visual
cues in sight, traffic on the runway, IP says go missed, etc.)
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Vectors back around for the ILS 24R
via Raw Data to the landing
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IP is very helpful acting as the
non-flying pilot, use them as much as possible
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Have him set heading bugs
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Have him tune and indent
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With power
changes start moving the throttles then have him adjust to final settings
- Medical exam is
conducted the following day
Interview Question Bank Help
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- Technical Questions
- What are flight time
limitations for part 121
- per day
- per week
- per month
- per year
- Decode a METAR and TAF
- Have you ever flown a
Departure Procedure?
- Identify and brief a departure
procedure
- after departing ORD and
heading to Boiler VOR, what frequency would we use for departure
- High/Low altitude enroute
charts,
- What’s the distance between
these two points
- what can you tell me about
this airway (it was a one-way airway)
- Identify and define
- MAA
- MCA
- Grid MORA
- MEA
- know what being at each of
these altitudes assures
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Identify Change over points (COP)
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Identify and explain restricted areas
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Define
altitudes of Class B airspace.
- Identify and brief an arrival
procedure
- If you descend from FL290 to
11,000' but don’t reset your altimeter how far off will it be?
- Brief an approach plate
- Can we shoot this approach
given this weather?
- Where is the final approach
fix on this approach (ILS)
- What if the weather goes below
minimums and we are inside the FAF
- how long is the runway?
- What kind of lights should I
look for?
- Where is the beacon?
- You arrive at decision
altitude, what do you need to continue descending?
- What is different if only the
approach lights are in sight?
- Runway lighting
- when do the runway edge lights
change? What color are they?
- When do the centerline lights
change? Do they change again?
- When do you have to have a
takeoff alternate ?
- When do you have to have a
destination alternate?
- Do we need one for Abilene given this weather
(read TAF)?
- What is the definition of
adequate visual reference for takeoff?
- What is the length and width
of the runway?
- What lighting is associated
with a MALSR?
- Departing Abilene given these
altitudes and intersections, what radial and DME will we use
- How do you know how much
runway is left during landing rollout?
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What is
required for a thunderstorm to form
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Airspace
altitudes and airspeeds
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Where does
mountainous terrain start
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Jepps
Airport Chart symbols (circled star=rotating beacon)
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Can be any airport in the
country, not just DFW
- Why do you want to know how
much runway is left?
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On a
STAR are “expected altitudes, mandatory?
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Airport diagram
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When
do you need a second alternate?
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Current Aircraft Systems
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What
type of engines
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How
does the gear work
- Human Resource Questions
- Why do you want to work for American Eagle?
- Why should we hire you?
- Describe yourself in 1 or 2 words.
- Are you willing to relocate?
- What's important to you as a FO.
- What would you change about yourself?
- How did you prepare for this interview?
- What is one attribute you would change about
yourself?
- What are two things you look for in an
airline job?
- When would you take the controls from the
captain?
- What will be the hardest part about training?
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How would
others describe you in one word?
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Tell me what
the hardest part will be working for Eagle?
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What would
your present employer say about you?
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What quality
do you most dislike about yourself?
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What is
your biggest achievement?
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Have
you applied at any others airlines?
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Have
you applied at Eagle before?
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Any
checkride failures?
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When
can you start?
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What
base do you want, why?
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Ever
been fired or asked to resign?
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Tell
me something about yourself that we can't find out on the
application.
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Use
two words to describe a professional pilot.
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What
do you expect out of a captain?
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What
makes a good First Officer?
Comments
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any other pertinent information
- Everyone was very nice and seemed to really want me to
succeed all through the process. I can't wait to start flying there.
(08/15/07)
- Good info on here! Great site! (09/01/07)
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