Originally Posted by
Mr Rumbold
A. Where do we find info on what else UPS does?
B. Sim eval? Didn't know they did that- any way to prepare for it? What aircraft sim do they use?
A: Learning about UPS (or any major airline where you finish your career) -
How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time! Dedicate a couple hours per day a few days per week and make it your job to learn if this is a place for you or not, if this is a viable company or not, if they have their ducks in a row or not. Talk to current UPS pilots. Talk to UPS drivers (maybe not so easy 'cause they're on a time schedule), talk to UPS staff at the UPS Store. Remember, this is a CAREER position. You had better know you want to be at UPS before you take up your last job of your career because otherwise, you will be wasting your time, UPS's time, your possible seniority number at a different airline, etc. Some probably put hundreds of hours into research on UPS. To do that, here's a quick and dirty gouge on how to learn about UPS.
Start here.
https://www.ups.com/us/en/about.page? and follow all the links.
And here.
https://www.ups.com/us/en/services.page? and go through the tabs labeled "Solutions," "Industries," "Challenges," and "Business size." Watch vids, read the pages, click all the links.
On the UPS website, scroll down and go through all the "COMPANY INFO" links like Sustainability and Community Involvement, Investor relations, Media relations.
https://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/...parcel_service
Got to YouTube and search for UPS commercials, UPS videos, etc.
Read the forums on APC, *************, etc.
Go to the Ready Set Takeoff UPS Facebook page.
Compare wages at
https://www.pilotcontracts.org/
Read these books in order of importance:
1) How to Ace Your UPS Pilot Interview by John Steinbeck. SHORT read
2) Leadership Lessons from a UPS Driver: Delivering a Culture of We, Not Me by Ron Wallace
3) Big Brown: The Untold Story of UPS by Greg Niemann
4) The Package King: A Rank and File History of United Parcel Service by Mr. Joseph O. Allen Paperback. This one is more of a negative viewpoint on UPS compared to the others but at least now you have more than just one viewpoint.
B: SIM for the eval?
The 757, 767 or used most. Then the A300. Possibly the MD11 (doubtful, but not impossible)?