Western Global Airlines
#101
Line Holder
Joined APC: Feb 2014
Position: FO
Posts: 58
Thanks for the info, any tips on the interview and how applicants are selected? How does the MD compare to 747? Same schedule and what not or is there a fair divide? I imagine the locations would vary greatly as well. Any insight is much appreciated. Thank you regardless though.
Can't speak on MD but 747 is nice. Literally 90% Asia. For everyone its 17 on regardless but I have averaged 10 - 14 days a month and sometimes no flying during slow season. Everyone here is a pleasure to work with from scheduling to the pilot group. The flying is pretty relaxed and usually have a couple days off once you land. Generally speaking it was an upgrade from passenger flying for me.
#105
Disinterested Third Party
Joined APC: Jun 2012
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#106
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2018
Position: recliner
Posts: 142
Don't sweat it, just have a good attitude and remember that there is no substitute for studying and working with your partner. I've been detached from initial and the school house for awhile so I can't give you any recent numbers.
But when I went through, of the three classes I met (one class ahead and behind also), only 3 really washed out. Two quit on their own when they saw the writing. The others barely got through the oral and non-motion sims and busted the ride, the company didn't give them a second chance. Three others had also quit in indoc and sim for greener pastures. All told that's about 36 new hires in 3 months, 3 washed out, 3 probably could have passed but decided it wasn't for them.
Again the training is tough, but def not crazy. Study on your own, study in groups and chair fly with your sim partner. Check your ego at the door and listen. Take it one day at a time, they won't send you for the ride if you aren't ready. They will work with you, we have a great training dept. Most guys feel over prepared. (This is all MD11)
#108
Disinterested Third Party
Joined APC: Jun 2012
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Whatever you've heard about no second chances is completely untrue.
#110
Disinterested Third Party
Joined APC: Jun 2012
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WGA busts captains to first officer and them moves them back to captain. Second chances up the ying yang. Additional sim time is given in training. Instructors are known to take time on their own dime to provide additional tutoring, and there's no shortage of line pilots who will bend over backward to help. If someone doesn't make it at WGA, it's entirely their own doing, and certainly not the result of a strict company that does not give a "second chance." If you can't do the maneuver at all, that's one thing. If you make a mistake, nobody is going to end your career over it. If you have an issue during training and it's trainable, then life goes on, so will you, and you'll repeat it.
If you can't make it at WGA, then it's not likely you'll make it anywhere. Whether a candidate makes it there is largely a matter of how much effort the candidate puts into it; they're not giving anything away, but they're absolutely not a place of zero second chance.
If you're asking about busting an interview ride and coming back again, I have no idea, but if you're talking about the culture there and second chances in training, on the line, and in recurrent, and if someone has told you it's not a place where personnel will work with you, then you've been told a lie.
If you can't make it at WGA, then it's not likely you'll make it anywhere. Whether a candidate makes it there is largely a matter of how much effort the candidate puts into it; they're not giving anything away, but they're absolutely not a place of zero second chance.
If you're asking about busting an interview ride and coming back again, I have no idea, but if you're talking about the culture there and second chances in training, on the line, and in recurrent, and if someone has told you it's not a place where personnel will work with you, then you've been told a lie.
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