Anyone interviewing Sept 8th? If interested in meeting up day before to study, let me know. I'll be at the Candlwood.

 

Sincere good luck to all interviewing with AE. I've heard Eagle has zero backlog of applications and, therefor, needing new-hires. Can anyone confirm/refute Eagles lack of 'inventory'? Just curious if anyone has a feel for the hire ratio compared to those interviewing.

Having served a tour at AE, I find all the applicant concern over previous checkride busts a bit ironic.

AE has been known for it's 'baseball' mentality for at least the last 15 years I've trained and trained with AE pilots and ex-AE pilots. Baseball? Yeh, 3 strikes and you're out. Actually, most guys opt to resign prior to the 3rd strike to 'protect' their training record.

This 3 strike rule is so onerous, I once told the AE director of training he needed to hire more teachers and fewer umpires. The best thing any new-hire can hope is to be paired with a CA upgrade. He/she can be your best tutor/mentor and a substantial asset to you get you through the sim and on to line training.

 

Is it me or is AE seem more stringent on logbooks?

 

As long as the logbooks are in order it seems to be ok, my concern is being written off because I have to many check ride failures in their eyes.

 

Are these pink-slip failures or prior airline indoc failures? I believe that failing Part 121 training is detrimental to someone's flying career.

 

A large majority of those interviewing do NOT have any 121 experience. My class of 34 had 2 people with prior experience. These failures they are looking at are failures prior to flying for hire (mostly), but failures in 121/135 definitely play into their decision making process im sure.

 

Will airlines even look at you if you failed to complete (unsat) 121/135 training before? Is it as bad as failing an airline checkride?

 

You think they're stringent now.... ???

gotta love newbies

Yes, compared to other regionals, they're stringent... but nothing like they used to be. They'd interview 40 and hire 1... and that was when you had to have min of 2,000 TT with an ATP to apply, and 5,000 with an ATP and some turbine PIC was just to be competative for the interview.

 

Pink Slips, but if I don't get the call for it I'm ok with it. I'm comfortable with my flying skills and if they think my failures are indicative to the pilot I am, well it's their loss.

 

What types of things are being scrutinized when they look over your logbook? Logbooks always seemed to be pretty cut and dry to me, maybe I am missing something?