Originally Posted by
Jeff Lebowski
So here's one for the group:
Seventeen years ago I pinked my Commercial and my CFI check rides. I passed each on retest one week after the fact. I've disclosed this on my application.
In the years since, I've passed two type rides, and every line check and recurrent event I've ever had. I've been a chief pilot, and ACP, and a Standards Captain. My record has been clean ever since.
How heavily do you figure those two busts figure in the hiring/interview equation? Obviously they figure, or the company wouldn't ask that they be disclosed.
I've never interviewed and never gotten the call. I'm wondering if those busts might be the thing that's holding me back.
My stats, btw, are:
8800 TT
3200 TPIC
Three types (no 737)
Heavy international
Part 91K, 135 (no 121)
If I'm not mistaken, the question on the application about checkride failures has been re-phrased to only ask about failures within the past 10 years. It used to be an open-ended question. Regardless, it may factor into the interview invitation, but I am proof that it is not a deal breaker. And once you get the interview, it'll probably be a total non-issue if it was as long ago as you say. Mine was 13 years ago and I think they just wanted to hear me say "yes" when asked if I had any, then moving on.