Any insight on the interview process???? I heard they might start doing sims during the interview????

 

The phone interview is where they ask if you have 40-50 hours in the last six months.

 

keep an eye on aviationinterviews.com, great gouges there. Really dont have any idea about sims, but it's good to be ready for one. Checkout the approaches at CYS, Wyo. You might expect the arc to a VOR approach or the NDB.

 

Any reason why they all failed? Any recommendations of stuff to study before going to interview/training?

 

I'd be curious to know too.......that is a pretty high fail rate.

 

Just a guess. I'd imagine they need low-time people that can hack low pay and a brutal environment. They have to be able to fly a single-engine NDB and land on top of Pike's Peak with a dead captain, without reverse, the other engine on fire, and with the mask on.

My sidebar, I think a lot of flight instruction has gotten watered down in the last decade. I think the failure rate at Lakes is good. They know that can't just pass people and be on their merry way. Never wanted to go through any of that, but Lakers are always at the top of my list. What and how those people do what they do is almost beyond what I can comprehend.

 

The main reason of the failures is that guys are showing up without an intrument scan, or knowledge of instrument procedures. Flying a new plane with no autopilot, no glass and faster than they are used to is also a challenge.

If you're thinking about Lakes, don't kid yourself into thinking you have a good scan. Nobody's scan is good enough. When you get to ground school you should be able to shoot a single-engine NDB approach, with a 25 knot crosswind, with turbulance. Then you should be practicing it 50 more times AFTER you're sick of it.

I've sent my fair share of new hires home because they can't fly an ILS to minimums, have no situational awareness, or can't keep up with the plane. Keep in mind, although GLA isn't a shiny new jet job, you will be a professional airline pilot, prepare for it like a professional.

 

I have been contemplating whether or not to tell my GLA interview story.....I've been so ticked off about it!!!!
Last week, I flew from the east coast out to Denver, changed at the airport, took the shuttle over to the Red Lion and told the very nice lady who collected my log book etc that I was two hours early, because that was the best flight I could get. She said they could probably fit me in early which was a blessing because I did not have to stay the night in Denver and actually got home the same night!!! Anyway, now for the "not so nice" lady who introduced herself to me and who I believe is just an HR person, not a pilot, but I'm not really sure of her title. She and I went into another room where she introduced me to the other guy(nice pilot) who would also be interviewing me. Ok, first of all this lady is so not a people person. Of all of the ludicrous questions she asked me.....She asked me about my driving record of which in the last five years I had one ticket for disobeying a traffic signal. I explained to her that I was on my way home from work, got off on an unfamiliar exit to get gas at 2am and made a left turn where there was a "no left turn" sign but it was so dark I could not see it. So she asks me "Did you learn anything from this?" Come on, what is this lady some kind of nut case. I have no DUis, no criminal record, already work for an airline, blah blah blah. Besides the fact that she is a total b*****, her last question was "why should we NOT hire you?" Who asks that kind of a question. I felt like saying........"it sure has been hard to quite that cocaine habit, at least AA sure has worked well so far, I've been sober for 5 days now and the attempted murder charges against me were finally dropped for lack of sufficient evidence"!!! She is on a total power trip, GLA should be ashamed to have her represent them. If I could go back I would have told her to "kiss my a**, thanks for being such a b****, good luck getting anyone want to work here with YOU!!!!!!!

 

Do they still make you pay your own airfare to the interview??

 

Yes, unless its on GLA.....