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Interview Profile

Day one

• Meet and greet at the hotel in the evening
  • Introductions
  • Discussion of company/benefits
  • Drinks
  • Get to know each other
  • Business dress, but no tie or jacket

Day two

• Paperwork for background check
• Urine test
• Simulator
  • Boeing 737-200
  • Steam gauges, no HIS, just CDI and RMI
  • Fixed training device
  • No motion
  • No visual
  • No flight director/autopilot
• No call, then show up for day three

Day three

• Panel Interview
  • Pilot, Training department rep, HR department rep
  • Human Resource based
  • Told they want to hire you

Interview Question Bank

Human Resource Questions

• Tell us about your career and how you got here today.
• How did you get into flying?
• Why World?
• Why hire you?
• What would you say are your positive traits; would your friends agree?
• Are you a self starter?
• Can you work with little guidance and little notice of changes?
• How will you handle week trips?
• What do you do in your spare time?
• Grade your simulator ride.
• Tell me about a time (TMAAT)...
  • You had a flying challenge and how you handled it.
  • You had a challenging flight
  • You had to fly with a difficult pilot
  • You made a mistake in the cockpit
  • You had an emergency
  • You dealt with an upset passenger
• What makes a good Captain?
• Do you want to upgrade?
• How do you feel about being a ten year first officer?

Technical Questions

• Current aircraft questions
  • Type of engines
  • Engine thrust rating
  • Weights

Simulator profile

• Take off
• Climb to 4000ft
  • Instructor put gear, flaps up, sets power thru 1300ft
  • Climb at 250knots and 1000ft per minute
• Turns left and right
• Climbing turn to 6000ft
  • 30 degrees of bank
  • 250knots and 1000ft per minute
• Heading to intercept and track inbound on an assigned VOR radial
• Once on heading, given heading to intercept another radial
• Given holding instructions
  • "Once at the VOR, hold..."
  • No paper to write instructions
  • Instructor asks what the entry and your initial heading will be
  • Given another set of holding instructions with same questions
• Given NDB instructions
  • Direct NDB
  • Established direct given instructions to intercept another bearing
  • Asked which way you would turn to intercept new radial
• Vectors for ILS to minimums
• Hints
  • Very pitch sensitive, use trim
  • Practice hold entries without using pen and paper
  • Ensure equal engine power settings to avoid big yaws
  • Be ready for holding questions while flying: how long will the legs be, what speed, when will you slow

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