Know your airspace, airspeeds, high speed aerodynamics. Examples: - advatages/disadvantages of swept wings
- Mach tuck, critical mach, coffin corner
- METAR/TAF, takeoff minimums, TO alternates, alternate minimums
- know how to brief an Approach
- know Jepps charts - approach plates, airport diagrams, TO min charts, high-alt. enroute charts
- know your systems of your current aircraft

HR questions:
- why Pinnacle?
- your strengths/weaknesses
- is a good Captain a leader or a manager?
- TMAAT you were stressed
- TMAAT you got a bad or less than favorable job evaluation

Pinnacle now uses a scenario-based interview. They give up a situation and ask "what would you do?"

- You take off, the airport is below landing minimums, a passenger has a heart attack.
- Same scenario: FA reports smoke in the cabin
- Same scenario: a passenger is assaulting the FA

You give your answer, and then they ratchet it up:
Now your alternate just went below minimums. The smoke has now turned into a fire.

Stay calm. They just want to see if you can think on your feet and exercise good judgement. They want to you stress CRM: use all your available resources -- FO, FA, ATC, dispatch in making a sound decision.

They also ask you the standard What Would You Do questions:
- Captain's breath smells of alcohol
- Captain goes below DH, no runway in sight
- Captain refuses to use the checklists

They're basically looking for three things:
- technical competence (you know your regs, aerodynamics, plates, etc. just study ATP stuff and you'll be fine)
- you have the judgement to eventually be a good Captain
- you have a decent personality so that the Captain won't want to throttle your beck by the end of the month

It's pretty easy. If you're concerned at all, the interview prep from Emerald Coast Consulting with AJ is pretty good.

Hey all. I interviewed at three places last month and by far this was the worst. The gouge is pretty much right on here for the written but totally wrong about a "great experience". Give me a break. Use AJ in MEM for the interview prep and frasca first. It is pretty helpful. Definitely go for the interview experience so you can get practice. Easy interview and if you want to get some jet time to get on elsewhere, this place is also helpful. Overall I didn't get a good impression. Unhappy place, broken training computers and a captain trying to tell me I have an incident on my record for a (safe)forced landing when I don't. I also talked to a few guys in training and it sounds really bad. I'd give them a D- on everything. Thanks but no thanks.

I interviewed at three places last month and by far this was the easiest. This gouge is great. The company knows you read this so just give honest, not 'canned' answers (they post all the 'great experiences' on here ;) . Use AJ in memphis for the interview prep and frasca first. It is pretty helpful. Definitely go for the interview experience if you get invited so you can eventually get hired elsewhere. Easy interview and if you want to get some jet time to get on elsewhere, this place is also helpful (per all the new hires in training there, everyone is leaving after a few months on average!). The company is also losing 30 pilots/month for some reason. As for the work environment, I didn't get a good impression at all (they won't even mention the pay or benefits if you ask). Broken training computers in the 'education center' and It is located at the end of a cheap strip mall type of place which seemed odd. Also talked to a few guys in training and the hotel next to the airport and everything in general sounds pretty bad. They were spending the day re-doing manuals that were printed wrong. I passed on the offer but thanked for the great experience!

I just wanted to let everyone know that everything on the gouge is still current, If you study the past posts you will be fine, I would say though to study weather a little bit more, There was probably atleast 5 or 6 questions about wx.