Originally Posted by
Crawl
I don't necessarily think that's true. Why would they bring you out there for an interview and waste their time, money, and resources on you if they had every intention of just sending you home? I think they are just expecting too much out of the sim evaluation. If you don't mess up the procedures and don't do anything stupid, that should indicate that you are trainable. I don't think they should be holding the applicants to practically ATP standards at that stage of the game, especially with so many people coming in from backgrounds of mostly CFIing in seminoles and the like. But that's just my opinion.
That stage being carrying people for hire?
Many arguments have been made about that point of the new legislation and that one should have an ATP in order to be an airline transport pilot, thus being able to perfrom to those set standards.
You said that you didn't pass the simulator evaluation. Do you know what you did wrong? Did you make a glaring error or two or do you feel like you just didn't fly up to your potential? I always hated that a job could be based on an evaluation of your skills flying a simulator that you have never flown before or an inflight eval in an airplane that you have practically never sat in before.
I'm glad you have a back-up Crawl and best of luck in the future.
USMCFLYR