Speeding tickets
 

Hello,

I was wondering about speeding tickets and aviation hiring in the regionals.
Im planning on finishing my ratings at ATP flight school in atlanta, Im 24 years old. I had two speeding tickets in 2007, two in first months of 2009 and a stop sign behind a gorcery store. I love avitation and flying, but Im wondering would this disqualify me from getting an interview or a job at a regional airline one day. These tickets were before I started flying or even thought about flying. All of these tickets were in the same county, Ive slowed it down since I got these tickets and do the speed limit from here on out.
advice or experience would help out tremendously.
Thanks,

Tyler

No DUI, no reckless, no other stupid stuff, you'll be just fine.

Just don't forget to list them!

one of the tickets my license got suspended, but I dont think it was listed as reckless driving. I just acquired to many points under 21 because of that one ticket.

It won't be a problem. The airlines all asked me about my tickets but only because they were required to. They didn't really care. Don't get a DUI. They care about those.

Thankyou so much for the information it is greatly appreciated. Im going to move forward with my training, and hopefully be an airline pilot one day :)

In addition to the NO DUI, and that you already said you have modified your driving habits. Own the tickets when asked, regardless of how you got them (ie. Stop sign behind store). Stop sign is a stop sign, no excuses. When you are asked, be able to say that you learned and make sure the rest of your driving history prove it.

As a side note to, consider your age and the type car you drive into how you drive. Because no cop ever gave a kid in a hotrod a ticket, just because. :)

Good luck with your career.

Okay Thanks for the advice:)

Keep you information from those tickets. When I gave phone interviews for a regional one of the questions I would ask: “How many moving violations do you have?” Unacceptable answer: “Um, hummm, one or um maybe two, oh and there was a third.” Acceptable answer: “Three.” And then I would follow up with “How much over the limit was each?” We then would verify the information on a NDR, you may want to go to the DMV and get one to verify the information, kind of like a credit report. You may be good on the 2007 stuff, usually five years is as far as they go back, sometimes ten though. Just have the information ready, if you give straight answers no one will think twice about it.

So two "normal" tickets got your license pulled? That would sound fishy to an interviewer...most places it takes 4-6.

One would suspect there was a reckless or DUI in there to get the point count that high but I guess it depends on the state.

Hey tylerb; which of the two atp locations in ATL will you be going to?