Originally Posted by
flyguy81
We used to have a 7 min CRM exercise in front of a paper tiger with a moving MFD for location. 2 interviewers would sit in and be your FO/jumpseater. You had a scenario and had 7 min to figure it out.
Fairly easy for those in a 121 background. In my interview group we had a MIL C-17 guy. His scenario was a pax having a heart attack at FL370. He decided he was gonna spiral down to the airport he was directly above and land. Made that decision in about 20 sec. No input from anyone…”here’s what we’re gonna do”. Interviewers asked if he wanted to look at alternates, etc. “Nope”. Didn’t get hired.
To be fair this more shows a lack of interview prep on this one guy than some larger trend of mil dudes lacking CRM skills as a whole... Any prep service worth their salt would have told our poor C-17 doofus exactly how to handle these kinds of CRM exercises if he'd taken the time to research it for 5 minutes.