Originally Posted by
f10a
My point was that many of the questions that are asked seem quite patronizing and ridiculous for today's industry and applicant demographic. Who is being called that doesnt know how to hold? Or when to divert? And with the guys that have been stuck in the right seat for the last decade, ask some relevant questions like crm scenarios with dbag captains, or something about technology being used today, not in the old days when a flight engineer calculated the time it took to accelerate to v1. It seems that a vast majority of applicants are not new to the 121 world, they know how acars and cpdlc work, and are not naval aviators!
You could look at it that way I guess, and perhaps even be technically correct in that assessment.
But as many others have posted many other times, the amount of preparation that you have to put into being prepared for what they ask of you that day is miniscule compared to a 20-30+ year career. Just look at it as a personal investment of a fairly small amount of time compared to decades of positive return. To put it bluntly, a week or two of studying to get a 30 year multi million dollar career. Honestly its not realy even about the material. Its about the attitude and motivation.