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Old 03-10-2013 | 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by ForeverFO
Wow... your creds are outstanding. I'm very. very surprised you haven't heard anything yet. I'd say, be patient, apply to everybody, including carriers & cargo that aren't even hiring, work every contact you have.

To show how weird this industry was and is, I left the USAF in 1991 with barely 1,500 hours of .mil time, all fighters, and was hired by AA right off. Other military guys in my class had anywhere between 1,000 and 1,500 hours, with heavy drivers having more... the typical 7 to 9 year military career.

What makes a candidate "acceptable" seems to vary with supply and demand. I hope it's not the DWI that's holding you back. That sucks. For 90% of us, it's just dumb luck we didn't pick one up in our young and stupid days.
Yeah, it's definitely a timing thing. I was one of the infamous NWA poolies in 2008. I say infamous because I was offered a job with NWA but never even called for an interview with DAL when they were hiring in 2010.

Originally Posted by SilverLake
Can you go to Canada without any issue from your DUI?
Not too sure I follow...are you asking if I can apply to a Canadian carrier? I haven't applied to any...thought you had to have citizenship to do so.

Originally Posted by teedog
gasnhaul

the dwi is not holding you back we have so many pilots with a DWI. The one thing that holds pilots back is not being upfront with what happened a buddy of mine just got invited for an interview and he had a DWI. Its just where you app falls on the pile.
Originally Posted by SilverLake
Spot on and agreed....
Unfortunately I think it definitely does hurt. Although a person looking will see that it happened back in 1989 and more than likely consider it a non-issue, all the computer will see is an answer in the affirmative. And the computer decides who the human eyes get to look at best I can tell.

Thanks for all the good words though guys. I'm definitely not throwing in the towel by any means and have my apps out with everyone, and I mean everyone right now. But again, so far, no calls from anyone.
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