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Thanks a lot for the info! I hope you're enjoying the flying out there.

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Originally Posted by ndawg1234 (Post 2436514)

Sorry for the late reply! It's been pretty busy here. After you get settled in and do all of your new hire paperwork, you're off to training sit through a short presentation about how the discovery flights work and the routes. Then I sat in the backseat of a discovery flight to observe one or two flights. Then you hop in a Cessna or Piper and go do a checkout w/ one of the senior pilots. It's really basic stuff like stalls, steep turns, stalls. A few touch and goes and it comes to about .8 for the checkout. It's not so much a checkride, really basic if you've flown recently.

Next is your IOE. You will be flying paying passengers as PIC, but one of the senior pilots will be in the backseat observing you for just a few flights. After that you're cleared on that aircraft. Eventually you do a checkout in the other plane and then you're cut lose and cleared to fly either one. You can fly in either seat (but personally I fly in the right seat, much easier for me!)

Hope that helped!

Definitely interesting! I have a Skype interview tomorrow with them. What was the interview like? Bit nervous considering this is my first interview in the field.

Cool, thanks a lot for the info!

Aloha from Hawaii

Hello all, newbie poster here. Have been keeping an eye on this place and following this thread for the last year or so and am now highly considering applying. Commercial pilot ASEL and AMEL w/ instrument rating and about 435 total time. Website says their hiring, anyone working there know for sure? Seems like a great option for someone like me who does not want to go the CFI route.

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Originally Posted by Dburg30 (Post 2478973)

they're definitely hiring. I have 260 TT but will have 300 soonish and have an interview with them this week. still not sure if I should go with them or not though. any insight is always appreciated.

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Originally Posted by Luewk (Post 2485775)

they're definitely hiring. I have 260 TT but will have 300 soonish and have an interview with them this week. still not sure if I should go with them or not though. any insight is always appreciated.

Good luck with the interview, let me know how it goes. I'm studying for the FOI exam and will submit my application immediately after. From what I've read the organization seems to be pretty legit, maybe some of the pilots that currently work there who have posted on this forum previously can share better.

No point to do your FOI before interview, they will hire you without it, just tell them you'll do it before you start.

Unless you intend on becoming a CFI of course, but then you wouldn't be going to Star Marianas...

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Originally Posted by dera (Post 2486267)

Oh ok, well I wish I knew that before I took the exam lol. I passed it and app is submitted so just playing the waiting game now. Anyone got any advice on the interview process?

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Originally Posted by Dburg30 (Post 2488258)

Oh ok, well I wish I knew that before I took the exam lol. I passed it and app is submitted so just playing the waiting game now. Anyone got any advice on the interview process?

Skype interview with their HR lady. 10 minutes, nothing technical.
If you're not a complete psycho, they'll hire you.

Interview went fine. It seems they just want to know how fast you can make it down there. I don't meet their 100 hr xc and 25 hr night xc and am a bit torn between building the time over the next month and then heading down there, or just eating it and becoming a CFI. any advice is appreciated.