milky

Both were called. One turned down the interview due to military commitments. Now waiting for a call on this announcement. Mostly semantics, I know.

__________________
-Milky

USMCFLYR

Stop living in the past. Look forward to the future.

USMCFLYR

undflyboy06

For everyone that's trying to increase their score, does only a 2 point increase sound a little low when you change your commercial license to an ATP, AND get a type rating? You would think that having a type rating in a jet and having an ATP would be nice, but maybe the government doesn't really care to much about that.

c12flyer

Thank you, hope you can post when you receive your FLETC schedule. If I got it right that would be the last call.

gotboost

I will post the info when I get it. I believe you are correct the next call will be to schedule the EOD date.

I spoke with my investigator last week and he was just about done with his portion of the BI.

BrandedPilot

Part 91 flying, and very few of our aircraft require a type rating.

__________________
Radial engines make the world go round!

c12flyer

You and I were on the same "timeline", unfortunately, after almost 3 weeks Minneapolis realized that I don't meet the last 3 years residency requirement. True enough since almost 3/4 of it was spent inhaling dust in Middle East. Thus I had to sign a non-residency form along with my supervisors name and contact number which they eventually aproved. Consequently it delayed my hiring process aprox. 3 weeks, thus I'm yet to get a call from the investigator.
And when I do I still have to weasel my way back stateside for the interview. Not easy to do on Space-A, but hey if life was easy it would be boring.

USMCFLYR

You're serious? They don't consider your **deployments** any different than actually living out of the country? Well crap....even if you were deployed - your LEGAL place of residence was still your homebase right? Sounds like you are being punished for being in the military and deploying. Am I not understanding something about the application process right here?

USMCFLYR

c12flyer

Although I fly in Iraq, I'm not in the military, but a civilian pilot under DOD contract. There are many civilian companies that have various DOD contracts some of which do surveillance flying. According to the New York Times a couple of years ago we are all mercenaries. Till I read that article I had no idea that an American civilian working for the American government to help the American military in times or war is defined as a mercenary, but I expect nothing less from the New York Times.
Back on point though, because of my non-military status all the military perks, exceptions, etc. do not apply as far as CBP is concerned. So it's not that I'm being "punished" but because my line of work lays in a unique gray area, CBP has no written guidelines to follow. In other words they understand civilians stateside and military at war but they do not understand civilians at war.
The irony is that there are currently 140,000 military troops in theatre and 180,000 civilians out of which 50,000 are Americans all under US fed. gov. contract, yet federal gov. CBP doesn't understand what we're doing here. It took me almost 15 min on the phone with one of the Minneapolis hiring girls to explain what I do. In the end she sympathized with my "situation" but as far as CBP is concerned I might as well be on vacation here.
Hope that explains a bit.
Let the good times roll.

Kayaker53087

Just got 91 on my application score - hopefully it warrants an interview.

But . . . . for those interested for 2008 they had a 35% failure rate for the flight portion of the interviews. The below link is something I found on the website in an effort to brush up - just in case.

http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/...c_brochure.pdf

__________________
CFI/CFII/MEI CE-550
____________
Lock and load.