KC135guy

My flight school www.jetstreamaviation.com just hired another instructor. Not sure if they're looking for another tho. I just switched instructors, my former instructor had some other financial opportunities so he's not flying much at the moment. It's worth a shot to ask about getting hired tho. Everyone at the school is great. They do charter flights as well. I know a couple people out here at Mountain Home AFB that fly with Ponderosa Aviation, which is next to Jetstream. Might be worth checking them out too. Ponderosa Aero Club I used to fly the 172 N916MA. The owner moved it over to Ponderosa. He said he wanted it to be flown more. It's an awesome plane and I was sad to see it leave Jetstream.

It's too bad Gowen's C-130's got BRAC'd. They still have several sitting on the ramp, they're just sitting there until the units that picked them up actually come get them.

Boise is an awesome place to live. You're not far from anything that you might want to do for fun. The mountains are right there so if you're into skiing you've got Bogus just up the mountain. You can see it at night since they light up the runs for night skiing. There's great hunting/fishing and camping in the local area too. McCall is about 200 miles north of Boise that is a yearround resort town. McCall is located on the Payette Lake where there is boating, water skiing and camping in the summer and in the winter there is snow skiing at Brundage Mountain and snowmobiling. Not to mention the ice festival every year up there is something that is a must to check out. There is an airport that is used during the summer as a slurry bomber base to fight fires. Not sure if they still have to old WWII bombers fly in for that or not. Normally it's uncontrolled. There is alot of back woods bush flying here. Jetstreams planes, particularly the 172, N101GV, that I fly is used for that. It's not uncommon to find mud on the stabs when I go out to pri-flight the plane. Not much of a clubbing kind of person, wife, kids and work take up most of my time, but there is alot of night life too...or so I've been told by my troops. Haha

Anyway, good luck with the interview. Let me know when you're going to be in town next. Maybe we can meet up and have a beer.

WalkOfShame

<Update>

Got the call for a formal board interview in early February! Time to start preparing... any advice would be appreciated!

Deuce130

Emerald Coast Interview Consulting

Aaron Hagan (AlbieF15 on this board) has a wealth of experience at interview preparation. He was a F-15 pilot and current FDX pilot. I think he's still in the Florida ANG, but not sure. At any rate, he could probably provide a ton of insight into preparing for any interview, but especially an ANG fighter interview. His rates are very reasonable, from what I remember. It couldn't hurt to give him a buzz, could be the best money you've ever spent.

We also had a guy at our unit do the resume laminated to a Jack Daniels bottle. He got hired and the bottle still sits in our pilot shop. I thought it was a brilliant move.

kalyx522

I did not go through Emerald Coast, but was just about to praise the interview consulting service as well...

Congrats for landing the interview! That in itself is so exciting.
I'm not officially in the military yet so I don't know that I am qualified to give advice to anyone, but someone else relayed to me this tip because it helped them get a slot, and I think it helped me as well... Is your interview held during a drill weekend? because they will usually hang out the night before or after. try to find a way to join them at the bar during this time because it gives them more time to get to know you outside of the relatively shorter formal interview.
For me I wanted this so bad (like most guys going for it I would assume), so I did everything I could do prepare myself, things I would've never bothered to do when I got hired by a regional. I went through that book Checklist for Success (which is kind of geared toward airline interviews, but is also very insightful for the pilot interviews in general). I had a few things I thought might be an issue and was totally stumped on a few popular interview questions that might be asked, so I actually contacted the author about how to present these issues. I had never used a consulting service before, but I was VERY impressed - they are EXPERTS and personally I will never go to an interview again without going through a consulting service first. Even for a poor regional pilot, it was worth every penny and I would've gladly paid much more than the $60 they charged because it might mean the difference between landing a dream career... and not landing a dream career because I simply didn't present myself properly.
Good luck and I hope you post on here next month that you got it!

WalkOfShame

Thanks for the link for Emerald Coast. I'll try emailing Aaron tomorrow and see what they offer. The laminated JD bottle is awesome... what a way to stand out! Now I just need to think of something like that...


Thanks for the congrats. The phone call definitely made my day. Unfortunately, the interview is not on a drill weekend, its on a tuesday, which I thought was odd. I have been there during drill weekend though and got to meet several pilots and support staff (part of the reason I think I got the interview). I'm wondering if the weekend before is a drill weekend. I'll have to call up there and find out cause it might be a good idea to go there one more time before the interview.

I've heard of that book and I'll try to find one up where I live. I've been studying everything I can about the unit and started putting together questions I can ask during the interview.

Paok

For a second I thought you meant IFS... I was like uh oh

cmac88

WalkOfShame you have a PM.... Thanks!