100% incorrect. This is a direct hire pilot job. You don't have to be dual rated, and only need to be fluent in Spanish if you get assigned to a southern border location AND they will send you to language school after your hired. It's not needed to get the job. I am: 1. Not dual rated, 2. Not fluent in Spanish unless cervesa and bano count and was offered a pilot position. You can become an Border Patrol agent and try to apply from the inside. But please keep your misinformation coming. :rolleyes:

Avanti,

Slice is correct. I had five friends just get hired with Homeland Defense. 100% pilot job. If you a Helo guy, then you will fly helos for a while and then fixed-wing. If you are both, then you can fly both. Every location is different and some are a little more customs and some are a little more border patrol. www.usajobs.gov has a posting for you to apply until April 14th. All of the new hires took about 4 months to get the call to get the "your hired." Hope this helps.

Just got a call from the Customs and Border Patrol for a pilot interview. Is there any gouge available regarding the interview process.

Thanks.

Customs and Border Protection - Surveillance Branch - West

Flying five P-3 Orion Command and Control aircraft and five Surveillance and Intercept aircraft out of NAS Corpus Christi, CBP Surveillance Branch - West is responsible for detecting, identifying and tracking aircraft used to smuggle drugs into the United States. It also provides the Department of Homeland Security aerial protection for critical national infrastructures, and helps protect the President and Vice President when they are airborne.

Its area of responsibility includes the entire Western Hemisphere with P-3 aircraft routinely operating from regions of Alaska and Canada, south through the continental United States to the equatorial and Andean ridge latitudes. The aircraft have been re-positioned as far south as Paraguay, as far west as Hawaii, and as far east as Europe.

With a staff of only 129 people, this organization has been responsible for making a considerable dent in the drug trafficking trade. Since June 1987, Surveillance Branch-West has been responsible for the seizure of cocaine with an estimated wholesale value of well more than $4.8 billion at current market value.

Customs and Border Protection counter-drug air and marine detection, surveillance and intelligence operations have resulted in the arrest of 888 individuals suspected of involvement in smuggling activities; and the seizure of 200 aircraft, 213 vehicles, 126 vessels, and one million pounds of marijuana and 555,000 pounds of cocaine.

Read up on Ch 10 of the AIM, Parts 91 and 61 of the FAR's and know the FLIP's and IFR sectionals. Don't worry about the aircraft and just concentrate on the safe competent operation of the aircraft.

Good Luck

Customs and Border Patrol Pilot
 

I appreciate it. If I get it or if I decide to do it, I would be based either in Jacksonville, FL or Miami.

I assume NOS charts..?

If you want the job you might have to be a little more lexible than that. Slice can probably answer better, but I have a friend who made the cut for an interview and wanted Jacksonville but they are interviewing/hiring into that base right now and offered him another base (Homestead/Miami) that he didn't want so for now he has turned then down. Maybe he will read this thread and give some more information, but what I am trying to get across is that it doesn't seem to be just your choice of base - but what I know as "needs of the service" when it comes to base selection.

USMCFLYR

Thanks USMCFLYR and I agree. When I received the call a few weeks ago, my choice was either Jacksonville or Miami. I currently work for the DoD, so I understand very well the "needs of the service". If your buddy could drop me a line and give me some insight would be a big help. Take care.

Dutch,
You don't have enough posts for me to PM you. I was only offered Homestead when they called me. If you were offered Jax, you must have a higher score than me (101, IIRC). Go to APTAP.org and search the forums for CBP and you will get more info than you can read in one day.

What was your score, if you don't mind saying, and when did you get an offer to interview?

Except that APATP looks like it is closed to new users and you need a log in to view the forum.