SkyWest Interview
 

Hello all:

I have been following most of the threads now for a few months, I have enjoyed most of all the information that is out there.

Thank you all

My name is Ryan and I am from 3i3 and just now entering the world of the airlines.

I just found out today that I have an interview on Dec 1 with skywest

I have low time, and well below their mins.

Just wanted to know what some of the other low time guys had for time, and their expeinces, and if anyone is going to be down there on the first with me

Thanks all

Reeves

have you checked out www.aviationinterviews.com?

Oh yes, I have been reading that and willflyforfood for as long as I been reading this


I was real surprised with my time 636tt 30 mult, and 40 king air as pilot rated passenger First officer time

Just looking for others thoughts

Reeves

WOW!!! I am thinking that I feel a flamer coming on and not Elton John.

what would the flame be
another low time pilot will fly for anything at anyprice.

That would not surprise me much

but beings it is my first post, I guess I will take my lashings as they come

good luck at the interview. if you know your stuff, it will show. if you dont know your stuff, it will also show. hope that helps

Yeah that does help a bit,
it is more of reasurance that i can study and do alright

Thanks

reeves

You a CFI there at Brown?

yeah I have been for about a year and half or so

Do you know if us

You know, I thought most Regionals would not look at you unless you had that magic 100 Multi? ? I wonder if they would interview him and then tell him to get more multi.

Yeah, I did a short tour of duty at your craphole competitor across town. Worst year and a half of my flying life.

Are you serious about the time you have and got an interview? If so I find it very hard to believe because there are people from my work who had 980 hours with probably 500 hours 121 turbine who were told to come back when they had another 20 hours. Never heard of anyone getting an interview with anything less than 1000tt.

Dead serious

I have emailed them several different times with with my times and I was completely honest with them and they never had any problems with my time

Reeves

Did you have someone high up walk in your resume or did you just apply online and get called? If so, how long did it take to get called when you applied online?

I was bored here at the airport last week and I just emailed it in the body of the email. She replied real quick and said she could not interview me with out having a passport. So I said that I would go out the next morning and order it and I could bring the receipt and she said that would be fine.

Then Camille emailed back and said that a lady named Cassady would email me my date for the interview.

This all took less than 24 hours last week.

so I wated till yesterday and I emailed Camille so I could get Cassady's email address so I could update her. Got not reply, in about 15 minutes later I got an email from Cassady telling me to pick a date from the list for an interview. I did, and then 4 minutes later I got a email telling me how and what to bring.
numbers to call for postive space, and hotel.

so that is where it stands now, and I am here talk to you all

Reeves

That's pretty amazing .... .I heard of guys getting hired with low TT but not with less than the 100 multi. Good luck to you and keep us posted.... I for one am jealous because multi time is a B&$ch to get.

He's a troll, period. A friend of mine had a letter from the president and he still had to wait to minimums. I reaaally doubt this guy got an interview with those times.

Reeves, if I'm wrong and you really do have an interview and get hired, I'll see you on the seniority list and apologize here.

From reading the gouges ... People have shown up to the interview and be told to come back when you have more multi. I don't know for a fact but usually the gouges are pretty dead on. Either they are getting desperate or you are pretty darn lucky. Like I said good luck.

Oh I understand

It has to be hard to trust someone that just joined the forum.

I will let you know when I get there and see what the outcome is.

No hard feelings

Reeves

I doubt SKYW is getting that desperate. There are plenty of guys who jump ship from Mesa to SKYW who more than meet the minimums. I have a feeling that either Reeves is telling the truth and someone in HR made a mistake and he will be told to come back when he meets mins OR Reeves is a troll/flamebait or whatever you want to call it.

to be honest I think the same thing

I cannot see any evidence that they would hire me

but I keep letting them know about my time and they continue not to have a problem with it.

I can see how everone thinks that this does not make sense.
me included

that is why i was asking if there was any low time guys that they let in the door.

I will keep you updated.

I got to call tonight and get my flight and hotel, it could fall through at anytime I would guess.

But I have talked to two different people about this at SkyWest and niether one of them have caught it if it is a mistake.

Reeves

It is possible that the entry-level pilot market is drying up to the point where they want to grab you before someone else does.

Maybe they will offer you a job, but tell you that you need 1000/100 to start? I would have taken that deal when I had 700 hours, knowing I had a job would have made the last 300 hours a breeze :D

So if you were offered a job at 700 tt and they told you that you have to get 1000tt before starting would you go and buy that time? Last time I checked 300 hrs weren't cheap, even in a Cessna 152. I just don't see what you can learn in 300 hrs that you didn't know in 700 hrs but that's just me and my .2 cents.

Of course I wouldn't buy it...I'd just keep working the same job I had before. There is a big jump in experience between 250 and about 1500 hours...after that the learning curve tapers off in GA.

just be a CFI you already get 4+hrs a day anyway.

I have a hard time believing your situation. I know Camielle personally and I have spoken with her several times about SKW hiring. Not once did she EVER talk about SKW reducing the Multi prerequisite. SKW is not that desperate and if they were they would still stand strong on the Multi prereq. I can see them reducing the 1000tt to 900 or even 800 but not 600 & 50. Those are Great Lake mins! I'm sure that there is a misunderstanding somewhere.

Understand that the hiring CA's who make the decision on you will notice and will probably send you home.

I do hope that after the interview you post the results, honestly!

Best of luck!

Todays PDX group interview: 30-40 applicants, only did HR. The Bro hiring is slowing way down and they are looking for over 1700 total with some turbine to go to the RJ. What I was told was that they are filling only RJ classes right now. That came straight from an interview captain. There is a class of 8 starting Jan 8,2007 for the bro and there are 20ish people in the pool. Some people with higher times did get an interview date in SLC but other with lower time got the, " we will call you."
The people at SkyWest are great and I really enjoyed talking with everyone. They went over the mins today and agian stated 100/1000 and competative 1000/2500. They have a lot of applicants but they are still being picky.

Allow me to poke a hole: how can you only have 30 multi yet have 40 hours in a king air? Them numbers don't seem to add up. 'splain.

Maybe he has 10 hrs of single engine ops?

Well in certain cases is who you know. I would think an ERAU alumn like yourself would know something about that, since every ERAU grad I've ever met claims connections to just about everyone out there.

Excellent point, that makes absolutely no since. I think that he is blowing hot air.

100% troll. Close the thread. I met a kid who was interviewing here a week ago and I asked him how the interview was going, and he told me he was going home because he only had 800tt and that they had screwed up and gave him an interview. There are people here who were born into Skywest (dad is check airman 20+ years) and still had to get the minimums. Why would Skywest interview this punk when they can get people with a 1000+ hours of CRJ time willing to switch over?

Maybe im reading it wrong..but whats ''40 king air as pilot rated passenger First officer time " mean?
sorry not being a d!ck just dont know if you just mean FO ?
Does that mean FO time and u have a type rating?
Im assuming its 30 multi and 40 multi turbine which makes a total of 70 multi?

a lil confused here

my first resume that made it to the SkyWest recruiter had 995tt 350 multi, 220 turbine, 100 instrument, and it got kicked back. Granted it came with a call to immediately update the resume, but all the same, it was 5 hours short of a 1000 and it wasn't good enough. I'm with the others on here that say it's a giant mistake that WILL be corrected on the day of the interview, or it's a bogus post. Incidentially there are a few that slip through the cracks and get interview without the mins, but they are sent home the minute a interview capt looks at the resume.

It sounds to me like they may have givin you an interview by mistake. Either way I would prepare tou answer questions about your lack of time. Maybe you can impress them and get another interview when you have the mins.

Maybe he's not counting the 40 hours toward anything. Like he rode along in the right seat of a King Air 90, 100, or 200 without flying it, and he wanted to reflect that experience somehow.

you guys are right
I was just logging it outside my total time in the back of an old log book I dont use anymore. It was just to show experince.

I am paid as an FO, but it is a single pilot 135 op per their opspecs, but the insurnce for the company requires two pilots that are rated in the airplane.

There for I cannot log any of the king air towards total.
So that is how and why I was doing it.

It very well my not help anything, but sure does not hurt much either.
Just as long as you dont try to lie about that the time means.
and my resume that I sent in reflects the same thing.

reeves

Still not buyin it.

If insurance requires two pilots, doesn't that make you a "required" pilot, therefore allowing you to legally log SIC???

That is what I thought too.

There is a couple reasons why you cannot,

1. anytime you log time under part 135 requres a 135 checkride of some sort, whether it be day vfr pic, sic on what not.

I have not done that

Just cause insurnce requires two pilots for their policy on the airplane, that is outside the scope of the FAA of required pilot definition. The King Air 90 does not requre a type, which is no shock or secret, and it is cert for single pilot IFR.

Very little leeway to log SIC, and I do not meet any of the requirements to log SIC.

More Questions, be happy to answer

Reeves