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I know this has been answred a 1000 times but a lot of answers were pretty outdated.
What are the best interview prep services out there? I'm hearing emerald coast.
Also, heard ready set takeoff is good and owned by a delta guy? Appreciate any info

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Originally Posted by blueskies27 (Post 3839086)

Spitfire Elite, and don’t look back!!! Make sure to do plenty of the rep sessions!

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Originally Posted by pilotmcdawger (Post 3839099)

Spitfire Elite, and don’t look back!!! Make sure to do plenty of the rep sessions!

I'll second this! But honestly all of these prep services are consistently good. It's like anything else, you will get out of it what you put in.

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Originally Posted by lifegoeson (Post 3836253)

Anyone think I might be competetive for an interview?

3600ish TT mostly part 135 no 121
2 Jet PIC types
2,000 Turbine, 420 jet, rest is turboprop
600 TPIC all turboprop
Currently flying single pilot king air with a superviser role (not CP)
No Degree, one year of college then dropped out to fly full time- already had all my ratings and at the time and the pilot market was great so I went straight into 135

Employment history is my biggest hold up. First big screw up was 2.5 years ago at an imfamously scetchy 135 shop. Was working 28 days a month and was asked to come fly on my 2 scheduled days off that month and declined. Was threatened by the DO twice that I would be fired if I didnt, and on the second time he said maybe I should resign if i can't come in and at that point I had enough so I did. HR accepted my immediate resignation but the following day I received an email that my resignation was declined and I was terminated. They put it on my PRD as such. I was an at will employee and this was illegal but my lawyer said theres pretty much nothing they can do about it. Next screw up was 100% my fault- 1.5 years ago I was employed as a charter pilot for only 9 months for a small company then quit. I was commuting coast-to-coast and the 'quick' upgrade I was promised was clearly not happening so I bailed for a PIC job. I know pretty much all I can do at this point is build consistent employment history and be a star employee and hope for a good hiring wave.

TIA

I’d have to say you are not currently competitive. 2 years ago, you would have been but hiring has stopped pretty much everywhere so the normal competitive mins have returned. Lacking 121 pic time and a degree. Those are 2 of the most important things to differentiate candidates when it gets competitive which it is right now.

I would still apply. You never know if you don’t try, but I doubt they’ll call.

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Originally Posted by blueskies27 (Post 3839086)

Skip Emerald Coast. Outdated and formulaic. Unless you like being talked down to by an old fighter pilot.

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Originally Posted by dmhpilot (Post 3839184)

Unless you like being talked down to by an old fighter pilot.

Who doesn’t? :D

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Originally Posted by Russell Case (Post 3838597)

From a regular line pilot perspective, future, QOL, etc, I understand what you mean. In actual practice, I can’t say I agree but I do understand. The old guys who have since retired from DAL and others, gotta be doing this just for kicks and the love, and honestly, my interactions have been nothing short of phoenominal with them. But I’ve also met guys who clearly lost their medical long before making what they perceived as enough to retire on and are doing this as their income, and I wouldn’t wish them losing their job so I have some potential future spot, that’s just not me but again, I get the sentiment.

I agree with everything you said. But by allowing it, we allow the company to get rid of pilot jobs, and for much cheaper.

And I have heard the job cutting is more fleet specific, and also an overall cut for training requirements not that we aren’t hiring 2500/yr. Line looking at the AEs and the lack of NB CA awards and normalized hiring numbers. Last time I was at CQ, one of the SLIs said they had done more line flying than instructing over the last year.

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Originally Posted by dmhpilot (Post 3839184)

Skip Emerald Coast. Outdated and formulaic. Unless you like being talked down to by an old fighter pilot.

To provide a counterpoint, I used Emerald Coast and was very impressed and felt well prepared. I did a little ready set takeoff and was not impressed. YMMV

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Originally Posted by dmhpilot (Post 3839184)

Skip Emerald Coast. Outdated and formulaic. Unless you like being talked down to by an old fighter pilot.

Good prep for when you hit the line!

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Originally Posted by NoDeskJob (Post 3838390)

I am an SLI. Current plan we’ve been told is to hire 1000ish pilots per year.

Also an SLI, getting same info. Including from people who would know and have no reason to lie to me.

At this point nothing would surprise me. I just checked the seniority list to see if people are getting added to the bottom and try to be optimistic about the future

Instructor meeting late Oct, will get updates then.