Nice plane ride thier DFW, american eagle provided the transportation, the hotel is on you, but it was a very nice hotel with full kitchen, cost 73.00 after tax. I could not sleep due to unknown reasons. I took the 7:30am van to american eagle, waited for a while, meet 4 other pilots thier for the interview, all very nice pilots. We were then taken into a room for more wait time. thier is where they let us know what was expected for the day, their would be three separate interviews, hr, tech, and sim. they also said they would give us a coupon for 5 dollars for lunch by 1pm at the latest.
1st place I went to was the tech portion, thier is no order, so you do not know where you will be going first, second or third. the tech guy was very friendly and laid back, he wanted to know about the last plane you flew, and that is what you are expected to know about, he started to ask me about the ERJ 145, I personally have not flown that plane in a about a year, and did not study anything on it since the last plane I flew was a beech duchass, I have been getting ready to take my ATP in that plane and have been flying it for about 2 months now. He did not want to know anything about the duchass only the EMB, my mind was completly blank, of course it all started coming back to me by the time I reached the airport for my ride home. but then he went on to ask about landing distances, low altitude inroute charts, stars, and aproach plates, know them well, my tech interview went very bad since I did not study.
the second part of my interview was the sim, very laidback sim instructor, he will do anything you like except fly the plane, ask him to hit nav, vs, heading, anything that will help you, first you take off, turn to a heading, then direct to a vor, then he will give you holding instruction, hand the plane over to him and copy instructions, take the plane back and get ready to hold, you have plenty of time, thier is no rush, almost boring, but nice since it was so easy compared to any sim ride I have ever done, you will do one hold then vectors to the ILS with a flight director, just make sure you till him to hit heading or nav, depending on where you are of course and what you are doing. he will clear you for the approach, and you will end up going missed at about 600 feet AGL, RW hdg 3000 feet. After the miss, he will reposition you on the final approach fix for a ILS no flight director, sim is sensitive, but if you us the trim it is very easy to fly, I think I aced the sim, besides the landing, but the landing is not suppost to be graded.????
Next was the HR part, he seemed very uptight,especially when I told him that the place I was a flight instructor went out of buisness, he got upset and was insistant on having a fax number for them to verifiey my imployment, when I gave him every option I had, W2s, paycheck stubs, logbooks, he still was insistant on me giving him a number and fax number for a place that no longer is thier, I did give him the old numbers, and the name of the owner, that was the best I could do. After he finished filling out all the paperwork, which was most of the interview he asked a couple of hr questions, writing everything down as you answered them. why should we hire you, why do you want to work for eagle, what are two things about you that are not on this application, what will you find challeging working for eagle, I might of got that one wrong, chaleging, nothing really, as long as you study is anything really hard?
At 1245pm they called me out to let me know I was not going to be working for eagle, they seemed nice about the whole ordeal, and I was still thinking thats fine, my own fault I did not study and I can always reapply in 6 months, no big deal, they gave me a paper on how to get back to the airport, and sent me on my way.
1st They did not give me the lunch I was promised. Ok I can deal with that, not cool, but maybe they forgot?
2nd I was in a very nice suit, and as I was heading out of the building on this cold rainny day, I soon learned this journy was a very rude one, I had to walk a quarter mile to the bus in my nice suit, in the cold rain. So be warned if you dont recieve the job, hope it is a nice dry spring or fall day. I will not reapply, I will not work for somebody that doesnt have any compassion for another human. |
