Originally Posted by
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I worked at Continental Express and Delta, neither had a sim ride in the interview. In my class of 40 at Coex, 100% passed and hit the line. In my Delta class 1 out of the 30 didn't make it to the line. I think a lot of airlines have found a sim ride as a difficult means to judge the quality of the pilot since you're not using the airplane that pilot has been flying.
Thats what I was told at Coex, not sure what Delta's thoughts were.
Simulator rides worry me. I haven't even started the process yet but it is one of the things that worry me the most. I hate to think that my future job could be judged on a single ride in an airplane that I've never even sat in the cockpit of before and then be expected to fly it to any level of proficiency. If they want to judge my instrument scan, BAW skills or CRM - I'm rather invite them into my sim for the evaluation.
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