SKW Interview
 

Got mine this week - wish me luck!

Anyone happen to know what the upcoming classes (CRJ vs EMB) are looking like?

Thanks

We just got a letter stating that they are going to be pulling 20 something EMB120's off line so your chances of getting the RJ just got considerably better. If you get 120 in a year you'll be on the jet.

According to the rumor mill is they're not running any Brasilia classes for a while. Like maybe months or something.

Of course, another good rumor is the opening of an Orlando base. So take everything with a grain of salt.

Good luck!

Next RJ class is Nov 12th and it's not full. My friend interviewed last Thursday with 5 others, all 6 were hired. Usually they wait and send out letters or call but all 6 were told that day and all at the same time. Another friend of mine was one of the hiring CA's, he said they told all 6 because it was the first time that all who interview were hired.

Good Luck!

Thanks for the info guys - keep your fingers crossed!

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Wish I could take credit for it!

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It sounds like we need Brasilia pilots. PDX doesn't even have any of their own reserve pilots in November. Plus, every time I call Crew Sched they're always telling me how short they are for Bro FO's. AND, we've been getting emails requesting us to 'help' by sitting reserve on certain dates for extra pay. Sure sounds to me like we need more pilots on the props.

Yeah, they had to reduce the number of lines because we didn't have enough. I'm flying a trip next month with someone from Monterey for crying out loud.

I've never really understood volunteering for reserve...they're probably just going to assign you open time flying anyway. Why not pick it up yourself for x1.5?

I talked with Virgnia recently and she told me they canceled the Oct and Nov classes for the Bro and don't have anything on paper for 2008. That is not saying it is not going to happen but for now, that is the story. I had my upgrade in for those slots.

I'm still uber-new to how things work at an airline, but I've been sitting reserve for the last month in SBP, and flew a grand total of 5 times. Seems kind of odd that they're so short on FO's, and yet I rarely have more than one flight a week.

Timmay, the reason you don't get flown much is you are in SBP. It isn't easy to get you out into the system from there and then if they do use you there wouldn't be anyone on reserve in SBP?


Rickair7777- actually volunteering for reserve makes a lot of sense. You get paid x1.5 if they fly you and if they don't you still get paid the day of reserve. You may not get the chance to work at all if you wait to pick it up out of open time. It is a great opportunity if you live in your domicile and can be at home.

Good luck in the interview. Hope you like Milwaukee.

Yeah, I understand the reasoning. It's just a pain when you don't get the base you were bidding for and then you don't fly much either. It's not a huge deal, I got awarded FAT for December and most of the guys I've talked to out there are flying 100+ hours/month. Plus, I commute, so I figure if I'm going to be away from the wife and kids I might as well be working. I'm just putting in the time, things are going to be much better in a couple months. Sorry, I didn't mean to sound like I was whining. It's just tough to hear the company asking for people to put in extra time when I'm sitting on my thumbs in San Luis. I'm done complaining. There are definitely worst places to be sitting on reserve. :)

Ever hear about a lovely place called MKE?! :D

Milwaukee is so four months ago. It's all about Chicago now.

I think Timmay's a Bro driver, MKE's RJ's.

Yep - just making a point - myself, I'd probably rather be on reserve in the Bro in SBP than in the Jet in MKE is all ;)

Yep, 110 hours for me this month and that is like my avg with only 10 days off. Were so short in the Bro its not even funny, FO's and Capt's! Real happy to see there will be no relief for us in site with no new classes! Bring on even more red arrows for us in Skd Plus (The Quality of Life Killer!)

It's SkedMinus-

SkedPlus+ (pronounced "Sked-plus-plus")...what a joke. :D

Works for us here out East!

Because if you volunteer there is always the chance you don't get called and get 3:45 for doing nothing. Then if they call you, you get x1.5 anyways so it's the same as picking it up.

Well, they mean well. I did finagle 17 days off next month, and it's actually my first month of having a regular line. I'm optimistic that when I'm less junior (I would have said more senior, but that's just silly at my level) and there's more reserve coverage it will actually be a somewhat capable system.

Oh by the way, the people who think they just pulled this off the shelf on a whim to thwart a union drive are fooling themselves. I used to, and occasionally still do, manage databases and write web applications and this sort of thing would take months to prepare and test. And I think it did, in this case. So the timing is probably just coincidental. Either that or SkyWest is more diabolical and has much better foresight than I gave them credit for.

You guys do recognize that many of the issues you think are SkedPlus+ problems are really staffing problems.

We need more bodies just to run the system we have. I have yet to see a SINGLE day in SLC for RJ FO's that isn't a red arrow.

Anyway...

Got the conditional offer into the 19th RJ class!

Does anyone have any RJ materials / gouge / general tips they wouldn't mind sharing?

I was thinking about getting this book as well: www.crjstudyguide.com

Again, thanks for the help, and probably see some of you in the not too distant future :)

On the final day of systems class they will do a VERY in depth review. The instructor will likely be reading from the test during this review. He will coincedentally probably make 50 points about the CRJ. The test has 50 questions, write down everything he says.

The test has 100 questions, and the review is very accurate...not precise, of course, but lets you know exactly what you should be studying that night!

Have a blast and welcome-aboard!

Do they also have a test you do the day you show up for training?

Test is real straight forward. You would have to be a total idiot, and should be immediately fired, if you can't pass it.

The may have you practice the limitations and memory items test the first day of systems (second week), but it isn't the real thing. Get to know them before you get there if you get a chance though just so you can focus on other crap.

Rog - got the packet today with all that stuff so I guess it's study time :D

Another quick question:

In the packet, there is a section covering "Other Limitations, Notes, and Cautions." These are your more narrative limitations as opposed to just numbers.

Certain passages/numbers are highlighted, and correspond to blanks in the "test" section. Is this test and associated blanks the exact same as on the start-of-ground-school test?

Thanks!

That's the test, filling in the blanks.
Obviously there's a systems test as well, which is why I recommend knowing the limitations/memory items one real well before you go so you can focus on systems.

Real well means from memory, fill in ALL the blanks correctly.

Get if memorized now, so it'll be review at test time.

Yeah - I just wanted to make sure I wasn't memorizing things like Runway Contaminant depth limits just yet :P

Is the runway contaminant depth section blank? If it is, you have to know it.

Not blank.

There a lot of things on the test that are not blanks, but would otherwise seem to be things I will need to know at some point anyway (ie max continuous ITT??? and many others). So I guess I'll study the blanks and all other #'s I deem important - which is most of them, but not contaminant depth limits :D