Colgan Interview
12-13-2010 | 05:00 AM
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If you can get yourself into a a cheap flight school sim you can practice. Find the fastest plane (at your flight school it may be a baron) and fly the approach at 150 knots or so.
In the sim during the interview take control of the situation and configure early and be at ref by the marker. It is much easier to fly an approach at around 110 than it is to fly it at 180.
In the sim during the interview take control of the situation and configure early and be at ref by the marker. It is much easier to fly an approach at around 110 than it is to fly it at 180.
250kts to the marker Saaaaab Style!!! Somedays you can tell who the commuters are lol.
12-13-2010 | 06:41 AM
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I second that idea of going to a sim before your interview. I did it and it worked out very well for me. Just make sure it isn't some new sim where you have an all glass panel. When you get to the real deal for the interview just don't let the sim fly you. As soon as you do you're done. MAKE the sim do what you want it to do.
12-13-2010 | 06:56 AM
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12-13-2010 | 11:41 AM
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I was at the last interview session in LGA and only 3/35, yeah that's not an exaggeration, passed the sim evaluation. I wasn't one of them. Procedures and instrument skills are not the problem, but being expected to fly a beech 1900 full motion sim having no experience in anything like that is a hell of a challenge. Went 3/4 scale deflection on the approach and that was that. If you're going there for an interview, I would highly recommend trying to get some sim practice in ahead of time. Luckily I already have another job and I was just trying to keep my options open, but good luck to the rest of you who go!
12-13-2010 | 04:22 PM
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I don't necessarily think that's true. Why would they bring you out there for an interview and waste their time, money, and resources on you if they had every intention of just sending you home? I think they are just expecting too much out of the sim evaluation. If you don't mess up the procedures and don't do anything stupid, that should indicate that you are trainable. I don't think they should be holding the applicants to practically ATP standards at that stage of the game, especially with so many people coming in from backgrounds of mostly CFIing in seminoles and the like. But that's just my opinion.
12-13-2010 | 04:37 PM
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I don't necessarily think that's true. Why would they bring you out there for an interview and waste their time, money, and resources on you if they had every intention of just sending you home? I think they are just expecting too much out of the sim evaluation. If you don't mess up the procedures and don't do anything stupid, that should indicate that you are trainable. I don't think they should be holding the applicants to practically ATP standards at that stage of the game, especially with so many people coming in from backgrounds of mostly CFIing in seminoles and the like. But that's just my opinion.
Many arguments have been made about that point of the new legislation and that one should have an ATP in order to be an airline transport pilot, thus being able to perfrom to those set standards.
You said that you didn't pass the simulator evaluation. Do you know what you did wrong? Did you make a glaring error or two or do you feel like you just didn't fly up to your potential? I always hated that a job could be based on an evaluation of your skills flying a simulator that you have never flown before or an inflight eval in an airplane that you have practically never sat in before.
I'm glad you have a back-up Crawl and best of luck in the future.
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12-13-2010 | 04:59 PM
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12-13-2010 | 05:04 PM
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I have a gut feeling, since they only have about 300 pilots at Colgan, that its the other way around, they can find the perfect people that will fit into their small crew, I do not think the sim ride is actually all that passable, I think its just the filter.
I don't necessarily think that's true. Why would they bring you out there for an interview and waste their time, money, and resources on you if they had every intention of just sending you home? I think they are just expecting too much out of the sim evaluation. If you don't mess up the procedures and don't do anything stupid, that should indicate that you are trainable. I don't think they should be holding the applicants to practically ATP standards at that stage of the game, especially with so many people coming in from backgrounds of mostly CFIing in seminoles and the like. But that's just my opinion.
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