Hi there,
For anyone to benefit from this..

Interviewed on 5/10

7:30 am, the HR ladies comes down to pick you up, collect paperwork, licences, cert. and logbooks. They will fingerprint and collect PRIA forms.. No drug testing.

8:30: back downstairs for initial interview..

Interview went fine, smooth, friendly people.... They did about five TAAT type of questions on the initial interview...

Initial interview:

TAAT you flew with someone you did not like..
TATA you went above and beyond for a customer..
TAAT you did something to enhance safety..
TAAT you had an emergency..

Why you are a good fit to JBlue..

What are the core of values?
Safety, Integrity, Caring, Fun and Passion..

Ok, pick one of the values.. (I picked Fun)
you chose Fun,?
What do you do at work to keep it Fun?

It was an HR lady with a pilot..

That was about 40 min between questions and answers..

Then, back to and open questions room where JBlue pilots answers any question you might have about the Co. and you wait there for the exit interview.

Exit interview:

CP from FLL, & J.W.

They'll talk about their own things.. Make it smooth and simple.

Why jBlue?
Why you? Why would you be a good fit?
Your background..
What if Delta call you..
Anything else you need to tell us..?
How soon can you start? - I guess as as you finish my background! Hehe (I did not say that. . )

That's like 20 min..

> jBlue is implementing this personality asessment. It is multiple choice.. 200 questions or more, it is like the Virgin personality asessment test. It takes like two hours to complete the whole thing. At the end there's a sim test your flying skills on the laptop, where you have a joystick with a throtle and you are on a plane with a HUD, speed on the left, altitude on the right and heading at the bottom.. Basically fly to pillons with heading that they assing you as you fly over.. That was the easiest.. You do it twice to see how you improve the second time.. You can't study for it.. So relax..
They guy from emerald that was coaching me said that the assessment test does not count towards whether they hire you or not.. And I hope so! He said is a method they are implementing to discriminate pilots as they have to hire more and more.. But it seem to me more of a method of loosing all aplicants...

You finish that assessment and you are done..

7:30-1:30 ... They did not provide any food, nor they say go out and lunch. That made me GGGggrrrr! Only blue chips, cookies and water.. So, HAVE A GOOD BREAKFAST -!

> be carefull with your log books, my columns were not adding up by some hours on the SIC they ask from the time you flew 152's and 172's.. Who logs SIC time on a sing. engine? But, he signed the paper and let me go.. The guy seemed to be like he would not make my life miserable for a few hrs on the log when my TT is over 8500.. The rest of the sums where neat.

They said they will write an email with passing to phase two or not, withing two weeks..
We'll see.. ;-)

 

Excellent post! Thanks!!

 

Well, there goes my career at JetBlue!

 

Great write up.

Thanks for taking the time!

 

You welcome guys,
I've taken some good info here as well..

 

Good luck to you....

 

Lots of people log SIC in a single during safety pilot time. Especially if you're 19 years old seeking hours. Of course I've also seen two MEI's double logging multi time by "giving each other dual." Side note on that one: there was an FAA enforcement action on a similar situation a few years back. The Feds deemed it a time building sham and violated them both.

I've never seen anyone with significant civilian time be able to perfectly add up the columns. In 28 years of flying there's stuff I never logged, stuff I never tabulated an individual column for (couple hours in a helicopter and glider- not going to keep scribing a rotor column across 4 logbooks for 5 hrs of time-So my SEL and MEL don't add up to my total), etc. Even given a margin of error of 1% on 9,000 plus hours there's bound to be a slight disparity.

I always loved the "gotta be in black" mentality. If a blue pen disqualifies me, so be it.

Just as an FYI, I'm flying with a guy that does interviews and he told me we just hired a guy that just hit 1500 hours.

 

You can only log SIC time on a plane that requires 2 pilots. Can't have SIC in a 172.

 

Maybe it's me but I have friends at JB and they say don't bother with JB. The pilot's did recently unionize. I think that if they don't provide food it shows what they think of you and it may show after you join. Tons of people leaving JB so there must be a reason.

 

Partially correct. An aircraft requires two pilots by type certification or by the rules it's being operated under. With one pilot under the hood, a 172 now requires two pilots. The safety pilot could log PIC. if ACTING as PIC and this is agreed upon before the flight; otherwise it's SIC. Another caveat would occur in say a C172RG if the safety pilot did not have an HP/complex endorsement. In that case he MUST log SIC. So you can in fact have SIC in a 172. And in all my years of flight school ownership - looking at countless logbooks - that's the way I've seen it the most: SIC.