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Originally Posted by HercDriver130 (Post 239914)

I am 44 and have a NOV class at RAH... but this is my second time around. Numbers seem about the same at RAH. We had 6 interview...only 1 so far ( me ) was offered a position.

Congrats!!! As far as it being your second time around, knock'um off their feet. Best wishes & blue skies.

atp

Is a commute to ATL for ASA from MCO realistic?

Seems like there are quite a number of flights going that direction - or are all the airtran flights filled with their own people?

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Originally Posted by ehaeckercfi (Post 240242)

To prevent FO's from being "leap-froged" in upgrade. Does this mean that when I get the requirements, I cant upgrade because somebody more senior than me has yet to upgrade because he/she doesnt have the requirements yet?

No, they are just trying to be fair to FO's who have been sitting on reserve for a few years and not flying more than 500-600 a year.

Ah, ok that makes sense

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Originally Posted by OnMyWay (Post 239898)

Hey, just to add to the pile: A buddy of mine just got hired by ASA. They need pilots bad, but not enough to hire "anyone". They need something like 40 pilots in the upcoming October class but only have 16(ish), so far. Out of five applicants, he was the only one that they hired. This kind of stuff makes me want to work there even more!

I agree, if a company doesn't lower hiring standards even though they really need pilots is a good sign about a company. One thing I am quickly realizing is that you want low reserve times as well. I really do not mind about the upgrade time sooo much, to me I want to be able to take time to learn everything I need to before shouldering the captain responsibility.

Mregan thanks alot for the comments. I am confident about the tech part of the interview, but the sim part is where I think Ill hurt a little. I just dont have any glass cockpit experience and the full motion sim (although cool and exciting that I get to be able to do a sim ride in) is kind of intimidating right now(never been in a motion sim before). Any suggestions (besides aviationinterviews.com) to prep for it?

Microsoft flight sim X has a CRJ 700. I prepared a little with that, I think it helps.

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Originally Posted by ehaeckercfi (Post 239676)

because I was also the most junior. I though it was rediculous that I had 4 times the flight time as most of these others guys and I was junior to them (they assign seniority by age). To top it all off, they all thought they were better pilots than me because they fly the CRJ and I fly the ATR. It didn't upset me or anything, it was just an unpleasent surprise. I would not expect that kind of treatment from a group of "pilots" on the professional level.

I hear you. I liked the way that SKW did it. It was a little more random by doing it with the last 4 of the social number. I think out of "our" class there was no more than 10 with over a 1000 hours.

I have heard that people complain about the seniority by age, and the company (not sure which) had to change it because it is technically age discrimination. I heard this from somebody who heard it from somebody who heard it...... I'm sure there is little, if any truth to it since it seems to be the standard