- Conducted in MIA at Aero Services north of airport.
- Starts with one hour company power point presentation in conference room with all pilot candidates.
- They focus on lifestyle, schedule, history, future plans, fleet, pay, benefits, training, and then open up for any Q&A.
- Panel interview with two Chief Pilots (777/747), and two H/R representatives.
- The panel interview is straight forward and friendly, and they offer chance to ask questions at the end.
- During this interview they want to see if the unique company schedule and lifestyle and your personality and experience will be a good fit.
- They go through your resume and ask you questions about it and your flying background.
- Questions were very professional and relevant; Why Southern, any failed check rides, past employer history, flight deck conflicts, TMA yourself etc.
- While one pilot interviewed, two others went to sim, and everyone else waits in the conference room.
- Sim is a non EFIS B737/300 very basic airmanship drill.
- Sim handles like a sim.
- They let you pick seat, and did not expect you to know the B737 specific procedures.
- Takeoff, climbing turn to level flight.
- Enter hold, leave hold (ask how you will enter, what reports you will make)
- Raw data ILS to landing.
Everyone was very friendly. Several company pilots stop in to visit and answer questions.
Coffee, sodas, water, fruit, muffins, and donuts were provided in conference room.
Overall impression was very positive.
Date Interviewed: April 2007
Summary of Qualifications:
ATP 7000+ Turbo Jet 2000+ Turbine PIC. A300, B747,DC10 Type. A life misspent in night freight.
Were you offered the job?
No
Pilot Interview Profile:
Arrived a day early in KMIA, transportation and
lodging on my own dime. Friendly DO and Chief Pilot, each conducted separate
private interviews. Chief Pilot first Basic FAR interview questions related
to heavy jets. Tell me a time when questions. How do you feel about being
away for 40 days at a time? DO second. Tel me about current or last flown
aircraft profiles, limitations, holding speeds, nothing tricky. Tell me about
North Atlantic Track Ops. Tell me about an uncomfortable cockpit experience
and how you dealt with it. Would you change anything about how you handled it
and why. He then asked how I felt about freight ops on the back side of the
clock and being gone for 40 days at a clip. Positive attitude all around. A a
recurrent class was going on at the same time. I spoke with an engineer in
recurrent seemed happy with life at Southern. Next on to the sim. We got in a
727 take off runway 27, turn to intercept departure transition. Fly heading
cleared direct to VOR hold. Fly heading intercept localizer cleared for ILS
27. He gives out profiles before sim, write them down!!! Positive points paid
training, paid studio apartment while in training. Any one who has spent time
on 36th St, Miami can't help but like that. The only down side I can see is be
prepared to be away 40 days at a time. I hope this helps.
Date Interviewed: July 2006
Summary of Qualifications:
ATP 5000hrs
Were you offered the job?
Yes
Pilot Interview Profile:
Not much of an interview. Eventhough I completed the application packet prior to arrival, I still had to wait an hour or so prior to my interview with the cheif pilot. No techinical questions. (Oh, and I interviewed in CT, not FL, like the other listed submission).
Once I was done with chief pilot, I talked with Dir. of Ops for 20-30 mins, again not technical, just getting a feel for who you are. One question he asked was apparently against the law, but he asked it. He asked if I worked or was involved with the union. Since I wasn't it didn't matter, but an attorney friend of mine told me that the potential employer is barred from asking that type of question, similar to marriage status questions.
I interviewed in July, and was told about 2 weeks later that I had a job. Only problem was that they told me that Sept or Nov was the next class date. No problem I thought, but I NEVER recieved a letter at all. By the time mid-sept rolled around, I finally
wrote them/Southern and told them that I was not going to be at whatever class they had planned for me.
Once I had written them, I finally did get a response in the form of a call from a pilot who asked me if I wanted to attend a early Oct class date. I declined, and told them that I do NOT accept employment via verbal offers. That was the only type that they offered.
Too bad, since I would have gone if they only had sent a letter.
Oh, and they told me that sitting reserve, could and would probably take place in Soul South Korea. Enjoy
