I want to get an interview, but can I get to the M&G anytime soon? Are the M&G's still going on?

Will my rejection letter from SWA kill my chances at FDX?

Questions galore. Please post here or PM me with any info or gouge, I'll take any advice I can get.

Thanks in advance guys.

Dave

P.S. I do have a number of contacts at FDX I am currently bothering as well, but any help is appreciated from any quarter.

 

Hopefully the M+G's will start soon. I think the hiring pool is slowly shrinking as we have hiring some lately, not sure of the official numbers. Just have your connection and rec's done and keep updating your info on line. As for the SWA, don't even bring it up unless they ask. Sounds like they only hire a small percentage of interviewes. FedEx pretty much wants to hire you if you get the call, it's all up to your sim ride, interview and testing. We don't waste our time and money in hiring 10 out of 100, we screen before the call goes out.

 

Good answer BoxFlyer. Exactly what he said, plus be sure your primary contact, the one who's going to be your sponsor, takes a copy of your resume into his chief pilot. And nobody else in the airline industry will care that you got a turndown letter from any other carrier, so do not bring it up.

Good luck!

 

Some of the happiest and coolest guys I know at FDX got turned down by SWA. Most of them now say "wow...I'm SO glad that happened...I had no idea what this company was about..." One of my favorite stories was a guy who applied to SWA and only reluctantly applied to FDX after being badgered by his bros. He lives in SAN and wanted to be home more with family after living the fleet/deployment life as an F-18 driver. SWA was his first choice since he though he could eventually get OAK or PHX as a domicile and commute.

SWA kyboshed him, but 2 months later FDX hired him on. He's now flying MD11s out of LAX...great company, great pay and benefits, and more time at home.

I know plenty of stories like one... You'll like it here...really. If you want the 0200-0600 flying, we got a lot of it. However, if you don't--we got lots of other flying too. And while we don't walk around doing the "kum by yah" act, there are a lot of great folks here who are a blast to fly and hang out with. SWA is NOT the only company where people can have fun at work.

 

How far out from military retirement will FDX interview someone? I retire from the USAF next December and wonder when I might hope to get an interview.

 

Is there an OFFICIAL conversion for military to civilian flight time that is accepted by ALL airlines!?

Failing that, is there a PRETTY GOOD conversion formula that most airlines will generally accept?

I know that the Air Force's "Other" time doesn't count, although some of my other time when I was the "A" code counts as PIC by the FAA definition. (The same can be said for some of my secondary time.) Conversly, some of my primary time was logged when I didn't have the A code and therefore does not count as PIC. And of course, the Air Force did not track our A code time, which is the direct equivalent of PIC.

What did you do in your applications? More to the point, what is FedEx looking for?

Thanks,
Dave

P.S. For my FedEx application, I did add .2 per sortie to my primary/instructor and secondary times and counted those as PIC and SIC respectively. With the above conditions and after 17 years of flying, I thought it would be about right. Thoughts anyone?

 

This isn't Bubba is it? CHS Sim Instructor?

 

No, but I do know "laughing dave" very well, we flew 141's at Travis together and then some time at McChord in the 17's.

I retired here at Atus back in July and I'm a "sim guy" here.

Dave P.

 

Dave,
If you retired in July, you might want to look into some type of recency of experience. Since you are current in the sim that is good, but a little flying time would not hurt for the question "When was your last flight and how much have you flown this year"?

Just a thought,
Fish

 

"Failing that, is there a PRETTY GOOD conversion formula that most airlines will generally accept?"

DaveP2,
There are some threads on this in the mil transition section. Most strat air guys seem to be using (TT-other)*90% for PIC. I have no idea what TAC air guys are using. I am using 97% instead of 90for my 135 time since all my time has been overseas, and I have flown an augmented crew all of once. I am using 90% for my C-12 time, since I was an MP immediatley after my check ride. I dumped all the other time from my CP days. Stud time is stud time except solos in the 37 and team in the T-1.

If you meant taxi multipliers, the companies that except them have them posted or converted automatically.