Originally Posted by Duksrule

What does it take to become a FE? Standard FAA study that can be picked up at numerous vendors for the test. Is there a big market for them? No, as pointed out, abundant experienced supply with ever decreasing job opportunities. Is that a way to get into a company and then move up to a FO spot? An old hiring model that is largely not applicable in current environment with the number of PFE's available in the market What is the FE writen like, all maintenance questions? Already pointed out systems and W&B diagrams, etc Also what aircraft other than the 727 use them? already answered Would it be a good thing to take the writen test or does anyone care if you have that on your resume? Would guess most don't care anymore Anything else you would like to add would be great. You just don't hear much about FEs here. Because technology has finally replaced the venerable FE

I put this in the cargo section because I figure all of the employers with FEs would be on the cargo side.