Originally Posted by
Sirecks
The lifestyle will be just fine. Especially since they actually give you a schedule, in black and white, on paper. And that's what you work.
I've never operated a plane where I had to look up an FAR, and I've seen a Jepp approach like twice. I have no idea exactly what questions I missed on the test, so this leads to me being worried that I won't get hired because I look like an idiot when it comes to FAA knowledge.
Unless you somehow misrepresented what you posted, you are mistaken about Atlas keeping to a schedule. In fact, it is just the opposite; you will bid and be awarded a schedule which is essentially an approximate footprint of what you will fly for the month. I fly out of CVG where the schedules change the least of all of our bases and I ended up two continents away from my awarded pattern last week.
In addition, several questions in my tech interview centered on the Jepp plates. Not so much on FAR's.
Many of the guys I know who had good successful interviews had done professional interview preps, had really studied the company, and had taken the time to research resources like this thread.
So, do yourself a favor and come prepared. They will spot you in a minute if you come to the interview and you are not.
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