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Don't work there....can't really tell ya. But with any interview preparation is paramount. PAY ATTENTION TO DETAIL. The more you look, act, and speak the part...the more likely you are to get the part. I would get on aviationinterviews.com and use their gouges. Also, if you know anyone currently doing Part 121, ask them rules of thumb they use in every day ops (descent planning, crossing restrictions, etc.) Having a 121 guy quiz me before my interview is probably what got me the job I have today.

As far as XJT's future...I would think it's pretty secure as of right now. They have already found flying for some of those aircraft and I would assume they should be able to find more. Plus, hiring has not slowed down there since that announcement which tells me they are still looking for pilots. I know I've recommended XJT to several of my friends. If you had a choice between Colgan or XJT...I'd take XJT any day and twice on sundays. The XJT guys can help you more though...

Why twice on Sunday's?

I dunno...it's just how the saying goes I guess

Still a great place here at XJT. Interview gouge is on aviationinterviews.

Future, no one knows for sure. The charter side seems to be growing rapidly. 15 planes committed as of Jan. We arent holding our breath on the RFPs and I would expect to see ExpressJet flying branded by Q2 '07. Nothing concrete, just my guess. Nothing like FlyI..... It will be under our control and we still have a constant revenue stream from the remaining 200+ aircraft we fly for CAL.

Great company, great management, CA attrition is high (35/mo) leaving for CAL and other majors. Hiring is high and planning to increase 64+/mo for the next few months at least....Training is ramping up with ground and flight instructor hires.... You will like it here.

Good luck.

Livinthedrea, study your ass off!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it would be great for you considering you arent even old enough to upgrade by a couple of years!!!!!!!!!!

Been at XJT 2 years now, have loved every bit of it.

- Interview is not bad, if they have'nt changed much.... KNOW your Jepps, make sure the logbook is presentable, and the one I hate to hear but it's true, just be yourself.

-Take all the stuff you read on these forums with a grain of salt. Things haver been fine here. They COULD change for the worse. Considering I have been here 2 years, get all weekends off, got Thanksgiving and X-mas off. And will upgrade in '07. If things did get worse, I for one could not complain TOO much.

Once again, things should be fine. See you when you get here.

How long did it take you to get an interview date? I've been "Added to Requisition" since 10/14.

I added mine 10/20......whats your time?

1250/300. Have an interview with Comair in less than two weeks but no call from XJT yet.

hey drumm, whens your Comair interview. Im headed down there the 14th

7th. Good luck to you.

Nope, no future. The sky is falling. Get out while you can. Stay far far away from XJT.:rolleyes:

Seriously though, if any of us could answer that question with any certainty then there would be a lot of money to be made. No one knows for sure but put this in your pipe and smoke it: would the company, knowing they are heading for tough times, pi$$ away lots of cash on training and extra staff just to turn around and furlough?

Mesaba did it

I submitted my resume a week ago. My hours are not very good. They stand:
1600TT
130 Multi (30 Turbine)
110 Instrument
1000 instruction given
120ish night.

Think I'll get a call? Any idea when I should be expecting to get it if I do? So far XJT is the only company I've submitted to. This week I plan on putting the rest out there.
Duck

Way more than enough, u will def get a call

Any idea on timeframe?

When they get to it...

Seriously though, some guys wait days, some wait months. Not really sure of the method to the madness, just the way it is.

I currently have about 3-4 more months at my current job which is why I'm looking now. I don't want to hit a lag in my flying. There is a 135 job here however I don't want to sign a contract then be called up.

Airlines will hire this month to cover flights next month even while they are printing furlough letters for the month after that. Manpower managers at airlines don't get fired for training a pilot and then furloughing him a few weeks down the road. They do get fired for cancelling flights due to predictable staff shortages.

An airline making a silly financial decision? Wow, imagine that!

Touche'...:D

hey guys I responded to the Interview Invitation email, how long does it usually take XJT to respond back? I was just wondering thanks :)

Unfortunately that is very true. I applied to TSA back in March, called the next week for an interview, hired the next day and called the following week to be told the company would be furloughing 120 pilots. Needless to say I didnt go there.

I responded on a Monday night and had a response Tuesday afternoon but that was way back at the beginning of the year and I'm sure things have changed.

a coworker sent in his resume in october. got an interview 2 weeks ago, was hired on the spot.

he starts class tomorrow

It seems that ExpressJet's hiring process is totally random, as far as who they call from the applications they get.

I submitted my application with 700/100 in June, was called 6 weeks later for an interview. A friend of a friend submitted his stuff about 6 months ago, still hasn't heard anything. His times?? 2300/700 with 500 in a King Air 200!!! We're both the same age, and he's way more qualified than I was and he can't even get a word back from them.

I'm running out of ways to tell him to be patient. It seriously has me baffled though, I think they must just pull out applications at random from the pile to fill their interview quotas.

I've been on the line for about a month now, lovin life at XJT. Everyone who's applying - stay patient, it's worth waiting for.

thats good to know, care to comment on the interview? i have one next week and I've heard it can be tough...I'm wondering if they are watching more for personality rather than whether or not you get all the answers right.....some stuff from the gouges seems weird like the mexican approach plates and such....just doing the best i can to prepare

I applied to XJT multiple times last year, even called to get my profile released so I could update my resume a time or two. Had an APD put a good word in for me, and had an internal rec, 1000/100+ with jet experience...and never got a call.

Another full-timer at Hangar 6? Who might that be?

The hiring process at XJT can be frustrating to say the least. I have former 121 time, ATP, 2500 hours, and applied back in April. I didn't hear anything until July, and it was a generic "thanks, but we have nothing matching your profile" email. I was very frustrated as I had friends with barely 600 hours getting called and hired. After that no thanks email, I gave up on them.

Then, 2 weeks after that, by sheer chance I looked at my email and there was an XJT interview invitation. I interviewed in August, and was hired. My class had a good mix of backgrounds/time, 500 hours to 4000+ hours.

As far as response time on the interview invitation email, it took about 4 days to hear back if I remember correctly. As far as the interview, I can only say what worked for me: First off, look at the gouges on aviationinterviews.com. They know they are out there and almost seemed to expect that I had looked at them. Have your paperwork in order and very neat and presentable, including your logbook. Make sure your numbers add up exactly. Study the most complex plane you've flown and know it well, as well as all Jepp related stuff, and see if you can get a hold of the plates for Mazatlan or Tampico Mexico. Know all the multi-engine aerodynamics stuff, ie Vmc etc. After that, just be yourself and Relax! Talk to the folks around you, show a positive attitude, BE ASSERTIVE (dont change your answers), smile, make eye contact, be friendly. Good luck!

OMG Mexican plates? I could be given anything. I must say this thread isn't making me very hopeful that I'll be called :(

No need to sh!t a brick toilet. Mexican plates are almost identical to US approach carts. The only real differences is that they like to use tear drop procedure turns, transition level and transition altitude are usually different (found in the notes section part of the briefing strip, usually 18,500/FL195) and there are different speed limits in Mexican airpspace. The charts themselves are not exotic or hard to read. Just know some of the ICAO symbology which is in the chart legend of any set of Jepps.

From my experience, personality was a big part of it. Know your stuff, yes, but (warning, big cliche coming) relax, be yourself, have a good time, etc etc. Its not a hard interview if you can read a METAR, read and breif an approach chart, know the most complex airplane you've been flying fairly well, and I think they asked about some multi-engine aerodynamics stuff (pretty easy if you're an MEI and have been teaching the stuff). The one thing that threw me off was being handed a departure procedure with a DME arc and being asked to determine the ground distance from the point at the end of the runway, around the arc to the one of the outbound fixes. I think they did that just to see my reaction under pressure. Then of course you get the standard BS HR questions.

wow that is an interesting question......out of curiosity, how exactly do you do that? Is there a formula?

1/60 rule to figure out the arc, which is the hard part. Basically 1 degree of arc is equivalent to one mile of distance at 60 miles (or 1/2 mile at 30 miles or 1/4 mile at 15 miles, etc). You just have to scale it fit your situation. It wasn't easy with the example they gave me. I think it was a 13DME arc and you arced along like 70 degrees. In the end, I think they just wanted to see you use what you know in a tough spot and not get flustered.

Or we could use 2*pi*r= the circumfrence of a circle. pi=22/7 r=whatever the arc is (13dme in the case above). Since an arc is a part of a circle, multiply above formula by the degrees in the arc over 360. This could be done on paper in maybe 20-30 secs and they may be impressed.

I hope my math is right as I haven't done a math course in years.

I understood your math up until the whole multiply above formula by degrees in the arc over 360.

From the time they call to the time they interview how much notice do you normally get? They sent my ATP books to my billing address for some reason and I wont be home for 3 weeks to get them :(


********PS are you guys buying these gouges or what?

If the DME arc is from 011R to the 101R then it is a 90 degree arc. A circle is 360 degrees. 90/360 is that portion of the circle that is defined by the arc.

Hope that helps.

Wow, good luck with that! Whats so hard about estimating to make the mental math easy? Look folks 13DME is pretty close to 12DME, right? At 12 DME each degree of arc is roughly 1/5 of a mile (60/12). Divide the number of degrees to arc by 5 (70/5=14) and boom, i just flew 14 miles along the arc. No paper or calculator required. Sheesh, yall like to make things complicated, dontcha!:D

And no, they wouldn't be impressed. If a kid whipped that out when I used to give checkrides (Not that I would, its a stupid question. Who cares how many miles you flew along an arc?) I'd tell him thats how a mathematician would figure it out, now how would a pilot do it?

Not really, I actually had to use the rule of 60 in the interview for my current job. I use fractions in my head for fun so working with pi is easy enough.

Anyhoo, I think as posted earlier that may have been a question just to check an interviewees reaction.