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Originally Posted by Dguiliano
Interviewed with planesense today. Think I royally screwed it up. Let the sim get away from me for a few seconds and went low on the glideslope at the turn into the localizer and went about 300ft low before realizing it.
Then I blanked on 3 stupid easy questions on the technical part. My nerves got to me bad today and I'm so upset at myself about it.
Went for an FO position. The HR position went fantastic. They seem to be very happy with my customer service experience and skills.
How bad did I do? Any chance I get it?
Hey,
I, also, get nervous on check rides and interview sims, so it's not just you.
Question: You say that you let the sim get away from you, but did you
call the missed approach when you exceeded your limitations? It sounds like you did, when you realized it, and called and conducted the missed approach. That's exactly what you are supposed to do, interview sim, check ride, or real life. If you corrected and kept going, even to a successful approach outcome, I feel that would be worse than having did what you did by conducting the miss.
Best case, they like you, consider you trainable, and you go on to a good group of pilots, decent schedule, and you maybe someday will touch a PC-24. The other best case is that you get rejected at PlaneSense, now with that interview and sim learning experience under your belt, and you get on with an equal or even better job. It's crazy out here these days, and it is finally a good time to be a pilot.
You never know when a setback will lead you to something better. When the economy began it's collapse, and so many pilots lost their jobs in 2007-2009, my Wife was a very experienced Registered Nurse. My furlough from a great 121 job that I would have never left was the catalyst that set her career on fire. In 10 years, my Wife went from a no-warning furlough of her Husband (with no aviation jobs to go to) while she was a RN to being a COO of a medical software company. She was supposed to be a rich, airline pilot's Wife, and instead I'm going to be a rich, nurse's Husband. I will never equal her pay trajectory with any domestic flying gig, so my job is to not screw up her job.
Bottom Line: Either way you win... PlaneSense hires you, great! PlaneSense doesn't hire you, great! You are now a valued commodity in a career where only a few years ago pilots were routinely told that "pilots are a dime a dozen", and people joke when somebody saw a panhandler and said "what recall seniority list were they on?" What ever happens, roll with it. Depending on your career aspirations, You might end up with an equal or better gig, starting out with multi-engine, turbofan time when it might take you a few years to start logging it in the PC-24 at PlaneSense.
Use this experience to build upon your self-confidence and experience, and you can't go wrong in today's market. If you show up on time, act interested, don't fail your check ride, don't get a DWI, and don't get sick, you can't go wrong.