What's the strangest/hardest question you've been asked on an oral?
 

Anyone? Anyone?

An interview oral?

"Tell me about the last FAR you broke..."

I hadn't really though this one out in advance, so I was dancing :eek:

How many hours in your logbook did you fake?

-LAFF

Did you know she was my daughter!?!?

"What's the thickness of the windshield?" after watching me writhe in pain for a second, he decided to tell me he was just kidding. :D

On my private pilot glider exam. I was 18.

"Ok Ryan, we are gonna build an oxygen system together. What are you going to bring?"


My response: "The oxygen."
The examiner: "Ok, I'm gonna bring a regulator."
Me: "Alright, I am gonna bring a hammer."


Needless to say I had no idea what you needed to make an oxygen system.

What is the weight of the earth? PPL checkride.

Slide off the runway into a snow bank on my multi checkride. Still passed. Examiner knew he pulled the engine too fast on the ground roll and I could not control it. Runway was a sheet of ice.

What's the Lat / Long for the North Pole?

-LAFF

CFI oral: How many people are you going to teach after you get your CFI

What is the PE psi?

My CAL interview I was asked to name the 7 dwarfs!!!!

(I think its a personality test!!)
It took me a little while to get it too

Happy
Dopey
Grumpy
Sleepy
Bashful
Doc
Sneezy

And the Dwarfs that hit the cutting room floor...
Horny, Sleezy, Drunky, and Touchy-feeley

I've heard of people being asked in an oral, "where is there dope and fabric on the CRJ?" And "what is the stick shaker limitation on the CRJ?"

My hardest was to draw the Piper Arrow hydraulic system with all relief valves and pressures for my CFI oral.

Both you and the Captain are drunk, what do you do?

and have you ever stole anything from someone's flight bag?

The one I had to think the most about was my CFI:

Why do students learn?

-Motivation, or because they LOVE ramen noodle salaries

Was perplexed by on of the posts about the weight of the earth and I just had to find out -

5.972 sextillion metric tons, or

5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. :eek:

Toss a few more steaks on the grill and grab another beer, cuz it must be one of the weekly backyard BBQs that I throw every summer!

I wonder what kind of runway length ya need for that weight. :p

:D sounds good to me!!!!, every Sunday would be nice, I remember when I was able to do that .... what happened :D

My favorite question back in the day was "Your captain shows up in the lobby in a dress when meeting for dinner - what do you do?"

Ask her if she'll pay for your dinner! :D :p

my teacher asked us the last one, only 1 girl in a class full of guys, all the guys fell for it
good thing i got it out of the way early so i dont look like a total old fashioned bigot in an interview

LoL! Now THAT'S a good answer;)

Initial CFI: What would you do about a student who has persistent bad B.O.?

It's only funny until it actually happens. :(

Strange ...
 

Happened to me during a North American interview some time ago ...

CAPT: So, do you like beer ? Would you drink a beer on an overnight ?

ME: ( Thinking what do I say to this one ) ... Of course I like a beer or two. As long as there's plenty of time on the overnight.

CAPT #2: Don't worry about him, he just wants to know if someone will go out drinking with him.

:rolleyes:


Later, CC

Ha, during an interview? That's pretty funny! Yea I meant to extend this tread to all interviews as well.

I remember getting asked once, "If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?"

I got asked a few years ago: "Do you believe in dinosaurs?"

Examiner ran through a loss of all hydraulics on a EMB-145. You go through all the checklists, talk him through the approach, long final, speeds, etc. Then he asks what would you do on short final, then on touchdown; no brakes, no reversers; aerodynamic braking. He was driving at shutting the engines down at touchdown, which is of course not in the checklist.

You are going 250Kts. How long does it take to go 50 miles? Quick now. Don't get it wrong. :D

Oh Mike, do you want my E6B? I'm giving it away! hee hee.

Strangest one I got was during an interview on the HR phase:

"After you've died, what would you hope your children would say about you at the funeral?"

:confused:

Appx 10 minutes.

250 an hour, 125 in 30 minutes, 62 in 15 minutes, 31 in 7.5 minutes...

-LAFF

250 knots is 288 MILES per hour, you need to convert first

I can't believe I pulled that one out but here is how I did it.

I figured 60kts is one mile a min so it would take 50 min. 120 would be 25 min and 240 would be 12.5 min. I knew I was going 250 not 240 so I just said 12 min. After the interview I figured 50 is one fifth of 250 therefore it would take one fifth of an hour. 60 divided by 5 is 12 miles.

I still did not get the job. (United) :mad:

E6-B Ok?
 

mike, you mean "60 [minutes] divided by 5 is 12 [minutes]." Right?
ie. 50nm/250kts=0.2hr (12 mins).

How many milli-seconds did they give you to answer that?

If I got asked something like that during an interview I think I'd be itching to check it with the E6-B my wristwatch bezel; though I'm do wonder how well that would go over. :confused:

Would that be a major faux pas? :o

It would be ideal to be able to instantly crunch the numbers during an interview; but we all know how grueling those can be. If, for example you are nearing the end of the interview and you get asked that type of question (which is one that you could normally answer unaided) and you realize that you are starting to get brain fade, would it not be better to utilize the E6-B on your wristwatch and be sure of your answer, rather than not and so give only an approximate, or worse and give an incorrect answer?

If anyone has advice about handling this sort of scenario during an interview (ie. if it's ok/not ok to reference an E6-B) I'm all ears for it.

Not so much a question but direction from the Doc
 

I'm undressed on the exam table and the Doctor says "Roll over on your left side facing the wall and put your right knee as high on the wall as you can." Delta 1991.:eek:

I don't think the interviewer is really looking for the correct answer rather he is looking for any answer and the way you handle it. (Correct is better) If you immediately looked to your wrist watch and gave him the correct answer, it would say about you that you are precise, accurate, correct and thorough. However it would also say you may be inexperienced unable to see the forest through the trees, and unable to think on your feet without a crutch. Perhaps the best answer would be to quickly know that you are going about 4 miles a min so it would take about 10 to 12 minutes.

If I were interviewing I would rather hire the guy who just knows it takes about 10 minutes rather than the guy who gets flustered, refers to his E6-b watch and "calculates" the answer.

A similar question often asked (in the old days) was: Say you need to dump 12000 pounds of fuel. Your aircraft can dump 100 gals a min. How long would it take? Now you could go to your E6-b and figure the density of the fuel for the tank temperature and figure the weight of a gallon. Then you could divide the 12000 pounds by your weight calculation and come up with an answer. I would rather just figure about 6 pounds per gal times 100 gals per hour divided in to 12000 = about 20 mins. Who would you rather hire?

BTW a really experienced 727 Capt. would just say, "I'd get the flight engr. to figure that out!"

mike, Thanks for the info.

Why are you even here?

And what do you mean by that? :rolleyes: