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05-23-2017 | 03:24 PM
#5753
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The Airman Trainee program is a great deal for any pilot who does not have the minimum hours needed for an ATP certificate yet. You apply the same as you would for FO and interview for it. The interview is much easier with a shorter test and no technical portion.
If your accepted in then you will onboard and become an employee. Your job is at the beginning of the month to report how your hours are coming and to call and check in. At the end of the month you log in and do an online training (normally takes 20 minutes). For this, they pay you $100 a month and you get non-rev rights for you and your family (currently with American, not sure what will happen when the switch is made to United).
There is no commitment to AirWis. If you decide to go a different direction you give two weeks notice and can walk away. If during the program you go to AirWis's CTP course then you will incur an obligation at that point.
All and all it is a great deal if you still need to build hours. If you already have your hours then they are going to interview you for FO and the ATP is not an option.
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If your accepted in then you will onboard and become an employee. Your job is at the beginning of the month to report how your hours are coming and to call and check in. At the end of the month you log in and do an online training (normally takes 20 minutes). For this, they pay you $100 a month and you get non-rev rights for you and your family (currently with American, not sure what will happen when the switch is made to United).
There is no commitment to AirWis. If you decide to go a different direction you give two weeks notice and can walk away. If during the program you go to AirWis's CTP course then you will incur an obligation at that point.
All and all it is a great deal if you still need to build hours. If you already have your hours then they are going to interview you for FO and the ATP is not an option.
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05-23-2017 | 05:56 PM
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Im not sure about travel but I was given a hotel room for my interview.
05-23-2017 | 06:23 PM
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I know they will fly you in for the interview. I'm not sure about the hotel though. When I interviewed for the program, the interviews were right by where I lived so I didn't need either.
After getting in the program, it took a couple of months before they scheduled me to process in. They flew us in and put us up in a hotel the night before you process in. It takes a little while to go through all the paperwork and briefs as you are becoming an employee. They provided pizza for lunch. After you are done, they get you back to the airport for a flight home that night. They nice thing about it is you are paid for your time there. I think they put us down for 8 hours at $50 an hour. They come up with the $100 a month by paying you for an hours work to report you hours and call in at the beginning of the month, and another hours work at the end of the month to do the online training module.
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05-23-2017 | 06:38 PM
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I know they will fly you in for the interview. I'm not sure about the hotel though. When I interviewed for the program, the interviews were right by where I lived so I didn't need either.
After getting in the program, it took a couple of months before they scheduled me to process in. They flew us in and put us up in a hotel the night before you process in. It takes a little while to go through all the paperwork and briefs as you are becoming an employee. They provided pizza for lunch. After you are done, they get you back to the airport for a flight home that night. They nice thing about it is you are paid for your time there. I think they put us down for 8 hours at $50 an hour. They come up with the $100 a month by paying you for an hours work to report you hours and call in at the beginning of the month, and another hours work at the end of the month to do the online training module.
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After getting in the program, it took a couple of months before they scheduled me to process in. They flew us in and put us up in a hotel the night before you process in. It takes a little while to go through all the paperwork and briefs as you are becoming an employee. They provided pizza for lunch. After you are done, they get you back to the airport for a flight home that night. They nice thing about it is you are paid for your time there. I think they put us down for 8 hours at $50 an hour. They come up with the $100 a month by paying you for an hours work to report you hours and call in at the beginning of the month, and another hours work at the end of the month to do the online training module.
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05-23-2017 | 07:21 PM
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Nothing was said about the hotel, pretty sure that's a no for the Airman trainee.
You will be in with the FO interviewees, except you get a simplified written and no technical interview. HR interview is standard stuff. Be yourself.
PS It might take up to 7 hrs, there were only three of us when I was there and I was the first person interviewed, so I was out in two hours.
05-23-2017 | 07:47 PM
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How long was the interview? The email I got says the interview is 7 hours long, not sure what means exactly. What kind of interview questions did they ask you? The email says they will provide flight accommodations via American Airlines, but it says they are not guaranteed flight reservations, do you think this means I am flying stand by?(probably not good when I'm traveling to an interview). Anyway, feel free to PM me if you'd like.
The interview can take a while...not because they are talking to you for seven hours, but because there may be quite a few folks they are interviewing that day. Have them fly you in the day before and get a hotel. They will fly you out after the interview.
They will put everyone in a room and provide a brief about the company. They will collect your log books and paperwork and send them off for one of the interviewers to start going over. They will cover benefits and pay. They will also answer questions. After that you take the written. For the Airmen Trainees it is a much shorter test than it is for the FOs. They say it isn't pass/fail and is used to identify potential weak areas to talk about in the interview. At the same time, I don't think I would want to fail it. After that you wait until they call you for the interview. They will normally go in flight order (person with the earliest flight home goes first). For the ATs they will go over your log book and numbers, do some HR questions, and get to know you. Real low stress. When I interviewed and was given a CJO they fingerprinted and filled some paperwork right then. It can be a lot nag day if they have a lot of people and only a couple people doing the interviews.
-be yourself. They are looking for people that will eventually become FOs and someone that they wouldn't mind doing a four day with.
-have your logbooks in order. There is a good article on the bold method on what airlines are looking for (Google "bold method logbook" and it should come up). If nothing else look at the ATP calculator on the AirWis website to see what hours they are going to look for. If they are hard to find in your logbook, then break them out or put them on a sheet in the front.
-be able to show or explain how you are going to build your hours. You should have a solid plan on how you are going to do it, or be close. Flight instructing, flying 135 cargo, you own a plane, towing banners.....
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05-23-2017 | 08:05 PM
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The interview can take a while...not because they are talking to you for seven hours, but because there may be quite a few folks they are interviewing that day. Have them fly you in the day before and get a hotel. They will fly you out after the interview.
They will put everyone in a room and provide a brief about the company. They will collect your log books and paperwork and send them off for one of the interviewers to start going over. They will cover benefits and pay. They will also answer questions. After that you take the written. For the Airmen Trainees it is a much shorter test than it is for the FOs. They say it isn't pass/fail and is used to identify potential weak areas to talk about in the interview. At the same time, I don't think I would want to fail it. After that you wait until they call you for the interview. They will normally go in flight order (person with the earliest flight home goes first). For the ATs they will go over your log book and numbers, do some HR questions, and get to know you. Real low stress. When I interviewed and was given a CJO they fingerprinted and filled some paperwork right then. It can be a lot nag day if they have a lot of people and only a couple people doing the interviews.
-be yourself. They are looking for people that will eventually become FOs and someone that they wouldn't mind doing a four day with.
-have your logbooks in order. There is a good article on the bold method on what airlines are looking for (Google "bold method logbook" and it should come up). If nothing else look at the ATP calculator on the AirWis website to see what hours they are going to look for. If they are hard to find in your logbook, then break them out or put them on a sheet in the front.
-be able to show or explain how you are going to build your hours. You should have a solid plan on how you are going to do it, or be close. Flight instructing, flying 135 cargo, you own a plane, towing banners.....
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They will put everyone in a room and provide a brief about the company. They will collect your log books and paperwork and send them off for one of the interviewers to start going over. They will cover benefits and pay. They will also answer questions. After that you take the written. For the Airmen Trainees it is a much shorter test than it is for the FOs. They say it isn't pass/fail and is used to identify potential weak areas to talk about in the interview. At the same time, I don't think I would want to fail it. After that you wait until they call you for the interview. They will normally go in flight order (person with the earliest flight home goes first). For the ATs they will go over your log book and numbers, do some HR questions, and get to know you. Real low stress. When I interviewed and was given a CJO they fingerprinted and filled some paperwork right then. It can be a lot nag day if they have a lot of people and only a couple people doing the interviews.
-be yourself. They are looking for people that will eventually become FOs and someone that they wouldn't mind doing a four day with.
-have your logbooks in order. There is a good article on the bold method on what airlines are looking for (Google "bold method logbook" and it should come up). If nothing else look at the ATP calculator on the AirWis website to see what hours they are going to look for. If they are hard to find in your logbook, then break them out or put them on a sheet in the front.
-be able to show or explain how you are going to build your hours. You should have a solid plan on how you are going to do it, or be close. Flight instructing, flying 135 cargo, you own a plane, towing banners.....
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05-23-2017 | 08:54 PM
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Along those lines there's nothing that I have seen to suggest that they will pay for your hotel.
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