This site was a tremendous help to me as I prepared for my interview with Eagle, so going in I wanted to remember as much as I could for future interviewees. Hopefully this helps!
First let's just say what a classy organization. Don't know what the other applicants thought but the interview team couldn't have been friendlier and done anything else to put us at ease. A great experience overall. I walked away from the day with a very positive view of the company. We were treated very well here.
Previous gouges pretty well spot-on. It's not a guessing game; they want to see you do well. Day started early at the Candlewood Suites (GREAT hotel. a steal for $64 a night) with the other 7 applicants and we all chatted before boarding the bus. Headed over to Eagle and waited in lobby. Around 8 John Rybak (he'll be the one running your sim) came out and escorted us to the holding tank. You will spend an extraordinary amount of time in this room so just be patient, stay relaxed, and remain focused.
First thing they do, just give a basic introduction and a little bit how the day will go. Start off by signing your Airline Apps paperwork (make sure it's SPOT ON; don't take chances here b/c they sent a guy home 10 minutes into the day because it wasn't an exact match with his logbook) Again just to reinforce what other guys have said this is not an area to mess around with; whether its checkrides or the number of hours you have, who cares, just make sure it's accurate.
I was called for my sim time somewhere around 9:30. Walked with John down the hall to the Baron sim room, and he was very thorough in his introdcution. I have zero glass cockpit time and I was amazed how simple it turned out to be. He will do WHATEVER you ask him to do; i.e. headings, callouts, checklists, anything. I am pretty sure I drove him nuts with my requests, but he complied and was very helpful. I got the MEM RNWY 9 packet, and held over the VOR. Very basic if you have done any holds in the last month or so. Sim was pretty touchy and it really didn't take much control effort at all. Flight director was fun; I enjoyed my time in there. Anyway, there's no feedback from him, so just do your thing and get the plane down after the 2nd ILS. I broke out with plenty of time for a decent landing. He tells you to leave a bit of power in at the end. This was easily the portion of the interview I was the most nervous about and it ended up being a non-event. Pretty fun, actually.
Next I had about an hour break before I was called in for my HR portion. Incredibly laid back, very easy. Mostly paperwork and documentation review, with a few questions sprinkled in. I only had 4 questions to answer!
1) Why Eagle?
2) What makes a professional pilot?
3) Hardest part about training with Eagle?
4) One trait you wish you could change?
Again, real simple. It was very laid back and relaxed.
We had lunch after that, $5 voucher will be enough for most appetities but if you eat like me you'll want to bring $2-3 extra. I had the calzone and the other guys at my table were all pleased with their meals as well.
I had my technical portion after lunch. By this point most of the other guys were wrapping their interview up as well. Again I tried to remember as much as I could:
DFW airport diagram questions: Can we depart? What about takeoff alternate? RVR versus what tower says visibility is? Know your Jepps cause there's a million things he could ask here. I got the feeling he wanted us to succeed but if we didn't know it he'd have to dig deeper.
Finger fly: Akuna 3 departure, Bonham 5 arrival. Just make sure you don't miss something here.
Low En Route chart was for the Denver area. Asked me to show him where a Class Bravo was. Wanted to know blue airports vs. green. MEA's, MOCA's, what's the diff? Distance between VOR's, intersections, etc. What is a MORA? Pointed to an ARTCC frequency and asked about that.
After that, he pulled out ILS for 17L DFW. Asked me about RVR, minimums, can we shoot the approach, etc. What is VDP? If you get a weather report after the final approach fix, what do you do? Not too bad at all here either.
Then he went into rapid fire mode for a few other things:
1) Landing light's out, Captain says we're ok, mx fixed it but no paperwork. What do we do?
2)How late can I have a beer if we fly at 10AM?
3)Part 91 oxygen reqs.
4)Systems of a PA-44
5)RVSM. What do you know about it?
5)Part 121 duty regs
6)When do we need an alternate?
7) How long's a medical good for?
8)What does airplane need to have to be legal? (ARROW)
And that's about it. I didn't feel like it was too bad. One thing to note, he told me right off the bat that he was simply marking things on a sheet, from my vantage point it looked like a yes or no column, but all he was doing was checking off the questions that he asked me vs. did not ask me. Nice of him to share that, especially for paranoid guys like me.
Again overall great experience. 4 got the offers, fingerprinted, and our passes to fly home. We were out of there by about 4:30. It was a great group of guys altogether and I was disappointed when people got sent him.
Good luck to all! Eagle said between 600-700 pilots over the next 18 months are needed. If you are flown out there and offered an interview it is your spot to lose, they want to hire you. Hope this helps everyone prepare. |
