Getting a regional job w/ checkride failures
06-05-2011, 08:23 PM
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Getting a regional job w/ checkride failures
Just looking to get feedback from anyone recently hired... I'm wondering how hard it's going to be for me to get on with a regional airline, given I have a few (3) checkride failures?
For those of you in my situation, just wondering who you got hired on with, what kind of times you have, did you have internal recs, etc... curious what it's going to take to get past those failures. Thanks for your time!
For those of you in my situation, just wondering who you got hired on with, what kind of times you have, did you have internal recs, etc... curious what it's going to take to get past those failures. Thanks for your time!
06-05-2011, 08:46 PM
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Ive been turned down by PDT , told I didn't meet eagle, mesaba requirements.
Haven't heard anything from
Asa with internal Rec
Cape air
Psa
Tsa / gojet
Times are 900 with 120 multi 100 me turbine
Supposedly commutair will not hire with 3 failures. A friend was told at the iterview he passed but couldn't get hired due to 3 failures.
Keep your head up and be open to anything.
Haven't heard anything from
Asa with internal Rec
Cape air
Psa
Tsa / gojet
Times are 900 with 120 multi 100 me turbine
Supposedly commutair will not hire with 3 failures. A friend was told at the iterview he passed but couldn't get hired due to 3 failures.
Keep your head up and be open to anything.
06-05-2011, 08:47 PM
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Slight addition to that - what is your background like? Are you flight instructing, doing 135, what? Times?
Three is quite a few. If you're flight instructing and have three failures, I wish you the best of luck. Your problem might not be the interview (you can probably provide examples of what you learned through each failure, etc.), it's going to be getting the interview.
Three is quite a few. If you're flight instructing and have three failures, I wish you the best of luck. Your problem might not be the interview (you can probably provide examples of what you learned through each failure, etc.), it's going to be getting the interview.
06-05-2011, 08:51 PM
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Yeah what kind of failures were they? Also were they FAA failures with DEs or just "stage checks"? Stage checks @ part 141 schools aren't kept as "failures" at most school so they aren't the kind of failures you need to report. When airlines ask for failures they mean the ones performed by faa designated examiners where you get an actual pink slip.
06-05-2011, 08:58 PM
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FAA failures unfortunately. 2 I probably deserved, 1 that was more of a misunderstanding (though I know better than to blame it on the DE in an interview). I'm instructing right now (CFI/II/MEI), 2400 tt/ 150 multi.
06-05-2011, 09:11 PM
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It doesn't hurt to apply. Apply everywhere. It's my thought that the places that use sites like Airline Apps use those sites to filter the results, and as such would probably never get your app with three failed rides. Find contacts in the company, email resumes directly. You gotta make yourself stand out. You got the TT and the multi for most places, and I'm guessing with that much time it's been a while since you failed anything anyways.
Could be (probably is) a total coincidence, but nobody in my new hire class had failed a checkride except one guy, and he had only failed his private.
Originally Posted by purduepilot88
Supposedly commutair will not hire with 3 failures. A friend was told at the iterview he passed but couldn't get hired due to 3 failures.
06-05-2011, 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted by DirectTo
Could be (probably is) a total coincidence, but nobody in my new hire class had failed a checkride except one guy, and he had only failed his private.
Originally Posted by flygirl579
FAA failures unfortunately. 2 I probably deserved, 1 that was more of a misunderstanding (though I know better than to blame it on the DE in an interview). I'm instructing right now (CFI/II/MEI), 2400 tt/ 150 multi.
06-05-2011, 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted by DirectTo
It doesn't hurt to apply. Apply everywhere. It's my thought that the places that use sites like Airline Apps use those sites to filter the results, and as such would probably never get your app with three failed rides. Find contacts in the company, email resumes directly. You gotta make yourself stand out. You got the TT and the multi for most places, and I'm guessing with that much time it's been a while since you failed anything anyways.
Could be (probably is) a total coincidence, but nobody in my new hire class had failed a checkride except one guy, and he had only failed his private.
Could be (probably is) a total coincidence, but nobody in my new hire class had failed a checkride except one guy, and he had only failed his private.
06-05-2011, 11:04 PM
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Originally Posted by hockeypilot44
How do you know that? Most people don't go around bragging about failed check rides.
Last edited by DirectTo; 06-05-2011 at 11:20 PM.
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