Packrat

Or as Mr. Spock might say: "Colloquially expressed, but essentially correct."

point432

Thanks Packrat for talking to me about Omni and answering some questions. Well...its been a month and a half since my phone interview and I assume it didn't go well. I answered them truthfully and tried my best to give good, but not canned answers.

I'd like to share my experience.

I remember applying and receiving an email and phone call about 3-4 days later. Told them I was interested in the job and asked if I wanted to set up a phone interview. Unfortunately I had to schedule it 2 weeks later due to my work schedule. Did the phone interview and here are some of the questions:


Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
One word that best describes you?
Describe one person you don't like flying with?
Describe one person you do like flying with?
What would your chief pilot say is one thing bad about you or negative?...i said not transitioning to the other type in our fleet.
We took a ballot: what percentage of people in ___insert company__ would like you...what would the 10% (my answer of hate percentage) say about why they don't like about you?
What do you like about ___your company____?
If you took possession of ___your company___ tmr, what would you do to change it?
What do you like about ___your company____?
Why do you want to leave/dislike?

Blah blah blah...sounds interesting, tell me about it. (Past employer)

3 Questions for us.


It was a lot of fun and a good experience. HR was warm and welcoming over the phone, so I felt rather relaxed. Never received any sort of letter or email saying that TBNT, but after this long...I think their minds are made up.

Applied with about 2900TT, 700TPIC, 1 jet PIC type/1 SIC type, all 91/135 experience, training captain/sim instructor experience, international and ocean crossing experience.

-Point

HeavyLift

You never know, they called me for a class over a year and a half after my interview.

obob866

When you have two misfit individuals conducting the interviews and reviewing resumes what can you expect.
When the ones they choice decide to practice for MMA competitions while in training, again what can you expect.

Good luck , probably much better off not getting the call.

Packrat

I agree. You may get a short notice call for a class date. Fortunately, they gave me enough time so I could give my current employer (at the time) a full two weeks notice. As it was, my last day at the old job was 2 days before class. I used that two weeks to do the CBTs.

Try to have those done before coming to class. If you have to do them during class, you'll waste valuable study time that you'll want during class.

Wow. I'd sure love to hear the inside baseball on that story.

HeWhoRazethAll

Just reading about Omni Air. Had no idea they were based in LAS!!

What is the hiring climate like right now there? Would a regional pilot with just shy of 2000 hours (almost all turbine multi time) and around 500 PIC turbine have a shot?

Live in Vegas and love the idea of doing ACMI out of my hometown.

aviatorhi

1000 PIC anything... no exceptions I'm aware of. The LAS base is exclusively for the LAS-HNL runs. From what I hear it can be held within a few months of being hired.

Packrat

Yeah, not true. I just took a look at the LAS bid pack and the seniority list...the 2 junior F/Os were hired in April/May 2014.

Put it on your dream sheet, but don't expect to hold LAS until someone dies, retires or upgrades. If you get assigned the 777 (since no one gets to choose!) you can forget about it entirely. The only way you can switch jets is by upgrading or getting displaced.

aviatorhi

That was based on one guy in our class who was told by scheduling only two peole ahead of him were looking for it, etc. But yeah it's a small portion, so if 5 people decide they want it tomorrow it can be years.

There's another deal on the east coast which is a similar story.

Packrat

Check your PMs.