Originally Posted by
Crawl
The only thing would be a failed Private Part 61 in high school. Driving history totally clean, everything else clean. They brought it up for about 2 seconds on my tech interview but when I started to explain it and said it was a small FBO back home while I was in high school the interviewer cut me off and said "ok, enough said, no big deal, nothing to worry about." So I really don't think that was it.
I felt really good about both my tech and HR, felt I could have done BETTER on the sim portion, but didn't think it went BAD. And if it was BAD, why didn't they tell me to leave that day? Why ask for all that additional paperwork, etc, and then pay almost $6.00 to send me certified mail to reject me 6 weeks later?
Moving on...
Don't overanalyse the failed private Part 61 ride. Nobody cares about that and a lot of people fail a check along the way.
Right now it is very, very hard to get a job flying airplanes and getting rejected doesn't really mean anything. My company recently hired a few people and had hundreds of qualified applicants as I understand it. And many companies hire folks based not on minutiae like a failed check ride 10 years ago or something like that but rather on how that person likes you that day.
Keep trying. Things
will pick up again.