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CloudPilot57 03-20-2012 05:58 PM


Originally Posted by Cruz5350 (Post 1155278)
Couple to BFD I think 1 to DUJ 4 or so to BIL and the rest to TPA/FLL some of the BIL guys are back in FL.

How many guys in each of the NE bases. I noticed the bid packs are 3 lines and 1 reserve. How many pilots is that?

Cruz5350 03-20-2012 06:27 PM

4 FO 4 Captain

ilsbird 03-20-2012 06:32 PM

wat are the chances of any new FOs going to Tampa or anywhere in Florida, and if you get somewhere in the NE as a base, and if you chose a hotel to stay during your trip time, do the airline cover your hotel costs or its on your own, cause i did remember the chief pilot telling me at the interview that will you relocate to your base cause thats our prefrerence.

PerpetualFlyer 03-20-2012 06:54 PM


Originally Posted by ilsbird (Post 1155325)
wat are the chances of any new FOs going to Tampa or anywhere in Florida, and if you get somewhere in the NE as a base, and if you chose a hotel to stay during your trip time, do the airline cover your hotel costs or its on your own, cause i did remember the chief pilot telling me at the interview that will you relocate to your base cause thats our prefrerence.

I'm too lazy to find the link for a face palm picture but you're in for a real treat...

Cruz5350 03-20-2012 07:10 PM

You're assigned a base you are responsible for your own housing while there. Don't count on FL there is many senior people up here itching to go back down south.

kuba3839 03-20-2012 07:49 PM

Cruz5350 Is the Willflyforfood the best gouge to use? or at least is it pretty accurate?

kuba3839 03-20-2012 07:55 PM

Does anyone know if they have started hiring FOs again or is it still street captains?

Cruz5350 03-20-2012 08:00 PM

I think it is accurate.

Cruz5350 03-20-2012 08:03 PM

Just go in there and be yourself. If you do the written test it's a mixture of some 121 regs and instrument/ATP written questions, all info that you should know at this point in your career. The sim is basic instrument flying that you should have down pat at this point also. The rest will be taught to you in training. They're looking for honest folks who have good knowledge and flying skills to build upon.

sandrich 03-20-2012 08:09 PM


Originally Posted by coryk (Post 1155222)
During sim training, what was the thing they hit on the most? Obviously single-engine stuff, but....?

Id say out of the 14 hours flying the sim, 8 of it was single engine. It really varies from instructor to instructor, and you'll have probably 3 or 4 different ones. To get signed off for the checkride, theres 137 areas you have to have satisfactorily completely at some point in the training. You'll experience every single type of annunciator/failure/error from GPWS, dual engine flameout, to a simple Cabin Door. Sometimes they will give you a failure, you identify, then they take it away, just to show you what it looks like. Others they make you troubleshoot and fly/shoot an approach with. There is 1 or 2 NDB approaches, some raw data, and LPV approaches. If theres one or two areas that I'd say were stressed the most, it is the V1 cuts and nonprecision approaches (specifically single engine). Trying to climb out of a V1 cut with a stuck gear, stuck flaps, and a non-feathering propellor is a b**ch.


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