Hear, hear! +1


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Can anybody shed some light on the preferred time frame for updating your application flight times before the interview? The day before? Two days before? A week before? Is it even necessary?

I updated mine the week before when I finished my last pairing. I wanted the logbook to match. However, there was no "official" guidance I received. There was also not any questions regarding my logbooks or mil records.


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I have flown with some great folks in my 13 years here and he is certainly one of those!

Absolutely one of the nicest guys you could talk to. Even when you bring up getting his son in.


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Once I had him on my jump seat during an extended ice storm delay.

We passed the time by letting him try to explain the rules of cricket to us.

I still don't understand cricket, but our man from India is a great guy, and I am sure his son will be as well.

What's a typical timeframe from interview CJO to indoc that guys have been given lately?

22 Feb CJO - 2 Apr Indoc

Congratulations!

Would anyone care to guess the % of applicants that are at majors currently, DAL/UAL/AA/SWA? And would the FedEx recruiters view an individual at one of these carriers differently than say a regional jet captain?

I've met two recent new hires that are now on the B777 that came from SWA.

I don't think anyone can really answer your questions.

Now that is funny. I laughed out loud in hotel room! 👍🏻

We've had several, it seems, from SWA in recent months. The others seem to be one-see two-see based on company and alpa updates. I would think they would look at anyone from any of the other majors favorably, although with the current computer points system, who really knows.

Flew with one that spent a year at Delta flying the 757/767 for them.

Feb 7 CJO. Options were March 5 and 20.

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I think anyone FedEx calls for the interview they want to hire. Very diverse group I interviewed with and my indoc class had a wide range of backgrounds as well.

Do you remember what the backgrounds were?

Here's what he posted in the other FedEx Hiring thread:

7 Feb CJO. When were you told 5 Mar or 20 Mar? Did you have time for a 2 week notice?

If I remember correctly I had at a least a two week notice prior to Mar 5th. Once I requested Mar 19th they switched me almost immediately without any questions.

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Anyone relatively new (first year) that lives in Memphis area, that would mind pm'ing me? I got an invite to interview plan on living in Collierville/Arlington area. While I've talked to a lot of FedEx pilots, none currently live in Memphis.

Hmmm... I wonder why that would be... <hint, hint>

You forget, I grew up there. Home... Sweet Home.

Thanks for the PMs. I talked to a guy in the area, and found some more posts that answered my questions.

Now I just need to get through the interview.

Monday interview breakdown last week was 4 mil, 4 corp and 2 regional. Good mix of backgrounds.

4/11 CJO, told to expect 5/8 or 5/22 for class.

One question. When does health insurance start? Would be for a family of 5. Thanks for all the info in this thread, super excited!

Insurance is effective day one of indoc. Though it will take you a couple days to get your family registered.


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Yikes. Seems low. Is that normal? Does FedEx have a set period of time you can come back and try again?

I was hoping that he was referring to the April 11th CJOs.

I think those are dates

Haha ugh. Carry on

When I interviewed, many, many years ago, only 4 out of 10 were successful.

2 busted the sim, and were escorted out the back door and never seen again.

At least you don't have to worry about that anymore.

I wish we still had the simulator ride. It is nice knowing that the person sitting besides you could manually fly an airplane in IMC conditions and talk on the radios while under stress.

It is still applicable today as there have been a few recent airline crashes where the pilot flying wasn't able to fly manually and crashed the plane.

I think it just demonstrated who was willing to pay the $8k-$10k for simulator prep. I don't disagree with your premise, but when the guys that pay the most are the guys who do the best in the interview, you aren't necessarily getting what you wanted out of the simulator anyway. I'm glad they did away with the simulator personally.

The SBI is a common failure item, and does the same sort of testing for how people act under stress.

Blame that on the newer training philosophies of automation to max extent possible, and the complacency that follows. It's worse in other countries though, 200 hour copilots who have probably never hand flown in their life. At least in America pilots hired by the majors have well more than 1500 hours and a lot of that was probably raw stick and rudder.

You realize after being hired the pilot must still complete the training program on the aircraft he or she was awarded/assigned. This includes many potentially stressful simulator events leading up to an MV and LOE. It seems like the completion of this program and subsequent IOE should indicate that the person is capable more readily than a 30 minute sim evaluation during the interview process.

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:eek: $8-$10K???? Are you sure about those numbers? They don't match what was available when I got on here. If there were guys paying that much to prep for a 15 minute check of their scan, I'd show them the door just based on bad head work.

I heard that when new hires were going to being sitting sideways in the back, the sim was a good way to help weed out people with no stick and rudder skills. Now, since everyone becomes an FO they got rid of the sim because between training, OE, and the first year on probabtion they will be able to figure out if you can fly or not.

Simulator thoughts from an old fart ...
 

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Many years ago PanAm furloughed a bunch of folks. Some of them didn't fly for the entire time they were "on the street."

I assume many of them were junior when they were furloughed back in the days when everyone got to be an engineer (707, DC8, 727, DC-10, 747) and maybe had not flown for several years when they were working.

When PanAm finally recalled all of them, some of them had been out for 18 years. Interestingly, almost all of them came back. PanAm actually developed a course for upgrading f/o's that assumed they hadn't flown in a long time to be completed PRIOR to the start of f/o training.

I was recently out of the Navy and didn't feel like I needed the extra stick time but I liked the idea ...


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BTW ... that was the same generation that UAL was giving sim check rides to everybody. This was not a full motion sim that might actually demonstrate your flying skills, rather a predecessor to "FLIGHT SIMULATOR" desktop computer game. I thought it was insulting to put experienced (airline and military) aviators in such a mickey-mouse contraption?

In that generation America Airlines was famous for their "astronaut" physical. Over the years I was amused at what seemed like more than their share of pilot medical emergencies inflight! :confused:

Delta didn't require sim rides for military pilots in those days ...

Hey all, just curious what experience are guys and gals getting hired with now? Thanks!

Outta 30 the last class, approx. 3-4 from Compass, approx 4-5 corporate, Aprx 4-5 Atlas. Majority of the rest Mil. Of those, one did time at SWA and one did time in AS.