https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publ..._GEN17000.html

 

Thanks so much Mink, that's a huge help.

 

I interviewed with PS in November and received an offer. Admittedly I didn't make the same mistakes you did but for your reference, my interview went very well and I heard back 8 days later with an offer for class, so you shouldn't have to wait forever to hear. PS also turned around and screwed me a couple months later and I'm not 100% over that yet.

 

Inquiring minds want to know.

 

I was put in the May class after my interview in November due to my last semester of college, then come February I heard through a friend that a Facebook rumor was circulating that PS had cancelled everything after March. I had been inquiring regularly about the status of class over the winter months and so I sent another message casually asking if a date had been solidified for the May class. After 8 days, I recieved a phone call from PS in which they told me that classes had been cancelled, although they would happily put me into a pilot pool and I could expect another call from them ‘come fall’. That’s when resumes went out and I got another offer at (IMO) a better fit for me.

I was mostly upset that I got a rug pulled out from under me without a disclaimer that classes could have been cancelled, that it would be literally several extra months of waiting without knowing, and that I had to learn about it from a rumor mill and not the company, especially so that I had to wait over a week to get a reply to a serious inquiry.

 

Hey man, if I may ask, how long did it take for them to contact you after applying to get an interview?

 

Hey,

I, also, get nervous on check rides and interview sims, so it's not just you.

Question: You say that you let the sim get away from you, but did you call the missed approach when you exceeded your limitations? It sounds like you did, when you realized it, and called and conducted the missed approach. That's exactly what you are supposed to do, interview sim, check ride, or real life. If you corrected and kept going, even to a successful approach outcome, I feel that would be worse than having did what you did by conducting the miss.

Best case, they like you, consider you trainable, and you go on to a good group of pilots, decent schedule, and you maybe someday will touch a PC-24. The other best case is that you get rejected at PlaneSense, now with that interview and sim learning experience under your belt, and you get on with an equal or even better job. It's crazy out here these days, and it is finally a good time to be a pilot.

You never know when a setback will lead you to something better. When the economy began it's collapse, and so many pilots lost their jobs in 2007-2009, my Wife was a very experienced Registered Nurse. My furlough from a great 121 job that I would have never left was the catalyst that set her career on fire. In 10 years, my Wife went from a no-warning furlough of her Husband (with no aviation jobs to go to) while she was a RN to being a COO of a medical software company. She was supposed to be a rich, airline pilot's Wife, and instead I'm going to be a rich, nurse's Husband. I will never equal her pay trajectory with any domestic flying gig, so my job is to not screw up her job.


Bottom Line: Either way you win... PlaneSense hires you, great! PlaneSense doesn't hire you, great! You are now a valued commodity in a career where only a few years ago pilots were routinely told that "pilots are a dime a dozen", and people joke when somebody saw a panhandler and said "what recall seniority list were they on?" What ever happens, roll with it. Depending on your career aspirations, You might end up with an equal or better gig, starting out with multi-engine, turbofan time when it might take you a few years to start logging it in the PC-24 at PlaneSense.

Use this experience to build upon your self-confidence and experience, and you can't go wrong in today's market. If you show up on time, act interested, don't fail your check ride, don't get a DWI, and don't get sick, you can't go wrong.

 

Ha! Welcome to aviation dude.

 

Well, where I am currently has treated me significantly better than other operations. Gotta search for the exceptions!

 

Exactly. I had an interview sim. Got to minimums, looked up, didn't see the runway, executed a missed approach. The sim tech said, "I saw it." But I didn't...

So when the interview portion came around, the interviewer said, "I see you missed the approach."

I said, "I got to minimums and didn't see the runway."

"That's exactly what you're supposed to do," he said.

So, no worries there.