gear up landing/prop strike as CFI
07-23-2017, 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Airhoss
FAA incidents only stay on your record for 5 years, then they disappear. I had a gear failure in 1987. It was classified as an incident. Ten years later I was sitting in an interview with United airlines. The question came up. I told my story, explained the incident, told the interviewer that the incident was no longer on my record but here is what happened. I gave them any and all "takeaways" I learned from it and that was that. I was sitting in a new hire indoc class two months later.
You can and must make these things into positives. I explained how we followed all of our emergency procedure, evacuated the aircraft, filed the required reports, worked with the FAA and CFR crews as needed ETC ETC.. just about every one has a bump in their past, either reported or not reported. It's okay as long as you're honest about it and turn it into a positive.
You can and must make these things into positives. I explained how we followed all of our emergency procedure, evacuated the aircraft, filed the required reports, worked with the FAA and CFR crews as needed ETC ETC.. just about every one has a bump in their past, either reported or not reported. It's okay as long as you're honest about it and turn it into a positive.
07-27-2017, 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
Gear failure, or you forget to lower them? Of course a gear failure is not your fault, and shouldn't be a problem... once you get to the interview.
07-30-2017, 12:56 PM
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Face facts, return what was a signed-off, airworthy trainer, a prop-less no wheeler on a closed runway due to pilot error; that's a problem. Commit to taking away a lesson learned positive, put it behind with resolve and go on to make a living in this unforgiving business, it's been done. Just don't wait for it to be forgotten entirely. Worked with a guy, nice guy as so often seems to be the case, who departed a non-published DP foreign field IMC & sheared off enough DC8 wingtip on a TV tower to start losing gas. Came out of a sim with him later as we, by chance, passed a crewmember from that life. My friend's name wasn't Amos but the dork blurted out, something like, "Famous Amos, how's the reception?"
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