Don't eat at the burger place. A few people reported food poisoning from there.

Van will take you to an outdoor mall that has Panera and a few other restaurants.

Also, hotel has a reasonable lunch buffet on weekdays for an affordable price

 

Two exits or so down is "Florence Y'all". There is a huge LA Fitness, a Meijer, and quite a few resaurants. If driving to CVG is feasible, I recommend it, esp if you have late night sims..

 

Having a car in CVG is great. I would recommend driving if you are able to. It is only a couple of weeks, but there really is nothing around the hotel. It isn't like Dayton, where there were restaurants everywhere and the van driver would take you where you want to go. I wish I had my car there. It sucked waiting for the van for 30 minutes on each side of the sim session.

The hotel restaurant is moderately expensive but they do give you a discount with your ID.

Hints for CVG:
- There is a "crew lounge" in the hotel. It is a great place to meet up and study.
- If you like bagels, free breakfast at flight safety each day.
- If you ask, the hotel will give you a refrigerator and a microwave. If they run out, ask for free breakfast passes instead. They will give them to you if they don't have a refrigerator (not sure if it is in the contract, but it seems to be)

 

There is a frige and microwave in the crew lounge as well if you want to store some stuff there. Of course flight safety has a frige and microwave too if you want to store stuff overnight etc..

The hotel has a washer/dryer. There is a quickie mart style gas station across the street where subway and raleighs is. It's no walmart but you can get some toiletries there if needed.

Also, bring a bathing suit, the pool and hot tub are very nice. There is a workout room too that is bigger than Dayton's but mostly bikes.

As already mentioned, having a car would be a nice luxury but not absolutely required. One thing about sims, there is not much down time. Two hour pre-brief, one hour post-brief, then getting there early for FMS and paper tiger extra study.

 

I'm interviewing next week. Any further info on this would be greatly appreciated!

 

PM sent with the newest gouge.

 

Have a friend that just interviewed yesterday. He told me seven were supposed to show three showed up two failed the written. It is true that PSA has now changed the written exam and are going to continue changing it to keep everyone off balance. He said there were questions about Raim, what prevents a turbojet from having compressor stalls sensitivity of the glideslope receiver when must circling minimums be published and a few other questions almost half the written was changed he also said they no longer tell you if you got the job or not you get some sort of notification in two weeks. Hopefully he will get on here and tell you guys and gals what his experience was.

 

I'm also interviewing next week any update would be appreciated

 

I'm also curious to know if everyone hired has actually shown up to class or have there been some no-shows?

 

There have been VERY few no-shows. There is typically ~1 in every class, and the instructors almost always know who those are before the first day of class.

The majority of the no-shows for the interviews have been cancelled flights and bad weather.