Originally Posted by
afterburn81
Could anyone here comment on training failures. I had an outlier failure on an oral almost 5 years ago. Only one I’ve had in 15 years of being at the airlines. There’s a question on the talent acquisition form that asks if you’ve had anything in the previous 5 years. I’m assuming this is a trigger regarding a call for an interview.
Anyone had experience with this?
If you’re asking whether talent acquisition does an auto sort by who has checkride failures (or other derogatory marks) and prioritizes calls to the squeaky clean first, who knows. One guy has 15 years and dozens of events, another guy has 3 years and only a handful.
It all comes out in the background check either way.
The more important thing is how you handle the question in a phone or live interview. It may be an outlier, but the person on the other side of the table doesn’t want to hear how you are a special little snowflake that was the victim of a rogue LCA or caught up in a cut vs fold scandal.
Be honest, everyone has a bad day in the box. I thought I was prepared, but reflecting back on it I could have been better prepared. It stung a bit, but I learned a few things. A good pilot is compelled to evaluate what’s happened, so he can apply what he’s learned. That spin was hell, it would have shook me up. Up there we gotta push it, that’s our j-….
Wait, what were we talking about about again?