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When the hiring board sees this, what will be their reaction? ( Assuming I pass all the 135 checks, ATP all the first time)
Originally Posted by Beech90
Which was the problem for me. I focused my studying on all the wrong things. No excuses what so ever, I know.When the hiring board sees this, what will be their reaction? ( Assuming I pass all the 135 checks, ATP all the first time)
I think you'll be OK as far as interviewers are concerned since you were so young and will have so much water under the bridge by then.
The bad news is that there might be a few companies (concerned with lawsuits and the media) that simply have a "hard deck" on checkride failures...you might not even be able to get an interview with these.
Since you have so much time to kill...I'd probably shoot for ME TPIC, glass cockpit and jet if you can get it. That way you might be in a position to apply to majors when you start at a regional (maybe you'll still need regional 121 experience, but maybe you won't). It's entirely reasonable that you might be able to get a major job with a year or so of 121 RJ time, if you have plenty of TPIC before age 23.
This assumes you get a degree somewhere along the line...