Hello:

Any and all help in preperation for AA-Eagle interview.

Current time: 1210tt, 120MEL
comm amel, 24 age, with BA!

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thanks

1) There's detailed gouge on the internet, willflyforfood, etc.
2) Study the ATP question bank.
3) Know your Jepp's, especially big-airport stuff like taxi charts, SIDS, DP's, and the terminal area diagrams that big cities have.
4) Practice some IFR on a SIM or PC, holds, intercept, ILS. If you're used to small airplanes, you will need to be more proactive with the power. I did the 707 sim, but they use a different one know.
5) There will likely be a employee plant in your interview group, and the clerk at the hotel may be a spy...from the time you leave home until you return home, assume that anything you say or do is recorded for the benefit of the captain's board.
6) Assume that you will not get hired if you have any kind of medical history at all...day 1 is interview & sim, day 2 is an astronaut physical. Some poor kid in my group got canxed because his BP was a little high, and I mean just a little high...it was low enough that it didn't raise a flag with his AME.
7) If you get hired, complete initial training and IOE, then immediately start applying to other regionals. I don't think anybody from my interview group stayed longer than 6 or 8 months. I got hired elsewhere before my eagle class date, so it wasn't an issue for me.

Got an invite, too... and aviationinterviews.com was a good source of info, as well.
I have 2500TT, 1300ME. But I will be busy for another month, so you'll be interviewed before me! Let me know how it goes!

Wow, Rick, why the quick jump? I heard (you know anytime a sentence starts with that....) that that was a career airline. Guess not! Why did YOU jump?

Where are there bases? Is there a training contract? Seat lock?
Thanks!

2500 & 1300 ??? You should be looking at Skywest or Horizon, or ASA on the east coast.

Eagle has fairly low pay, and a VERY long upgrade time because so many captains stay in hopes of flowing up to AA mainline. Actually right now eagle seniority has been impacted by furloghed AA guys flowing BACK into eagle and pushing everybody down.

The one good thing, for me at least, was west coast bases

I found their corporate atmosphere to be very wierd and bitter. And the mainline guys ABSOLUTELY DESPISE eagle. If you have no other option, do it but plan on moving along soon. You phone will ring off the hook once you complete 121 training and get a few turbine hours.

I didn't jump, I got a job offer elsewhere before I started at eagle.

Hello,

It is official I have a date with Eagle July 24, 2006. I'll be flying into DFW the day before! Now I must finish my studies for the MEI (Multi-Instructor Add on). Then it is off to interview preparations for Eagle. Not to mention getting all documents and logbooks in order. This is my first real 121 carrier interview, and yea I am excited and scared/nervous.

Thanks

I'm still trying to get a hold of them.. Why in July? was that the first available?

They asked if I could come in next week or mid July. I stated was going to be in Israel on a tour study program until July 10. So she said we can switch places always wanted to go. How does July 24 sound. That means you get month to have fun in Israel and prep for the interview while getting your documents all in order. They are running interviews through Oct. 06.

Stay in touch.

For NOW. I can think of many scenarios where Eagle will be half or less the size that it is now. How about when the piece -o-sh!te contract expires? Granted that's a while off, but Eagle (IMHO) will be pieced apart and whipsawed like never seen before after that thing expires. How much more flying do you think will go to the connections or if AA takes back some of there flying? What will happen then? What if AMR gets the 170/190 and puts flowbacks into them. Those planes will take over "real" Eagle flying, but be staffed by APA folks leaving few jobs for “real” Eagle pilots. The crappy possibilities are endless. I ALWAYS heard that phrase, ".....at least a very stable company", but its funny how little I heard it when AA and Eagle furloughed and when the flowbacks came pouring in. You must be an Eagle captain (in which case you have been there at least 10+ years) or a flowback. Regardless, you don't have any perspective on how it will be for a new hire there.


So what's the most junior captain? What's the DOH of said captain?

That is THE lamest canned answer that always spewed out of the mouths of Eagle lifers. I know it’s possible to work for a place that goes under and leaves someone hanging out to dry for a paycheck, but TODAY that is HIGHLY unlikely at the regional carriers that most of the folks on this board are looking to go to get a job. That phrase must be in the Crusty Captain/Eagle Lifer handbook or something. I get sick just hearing that one.

True, but anything is greener compared to the dead grass in AMR/Eagles yard. That place is a career ender or at least a career obstacle to anyone starting out in the industry and WANTS TO MOVE ON TO BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS.


You can listen to me. Granted I'm a bit bitter (as if you couldn't tell) about the place and have a slightly subjective view, but it is one perspective that many ex-eagle folks share. I wasted my time at Eagle for 6 1/2 years before I decided to throw in the towel. Being passed up for upgrades three times and baby-sitting flowbacks just got old so I gave “The Beagle” the finger. The place disgusted me so much and affected my personal life so much that I got out of the industry all together.

Do the new folks on this board a favor and save the Eagle propaganda for the Job Fairs.

Yeah, don't even bother going.

However, if you decide to throw your career away here is some info:
[Disclaimer: It's been over 7 years since I interviewed there, but this is what I can remember]

Kiss the interview captain's butt. Most Eagle Captains are ego maniacs (especially the guys in the training/hiring dept). So the more you stroke his/her ego, the better off you are.

Make them think you want to make Eagle a career airline. They want people like that. I think they believe if you want to be there for a while, they can abuse you more without fear of you leaving or something

They check out the log book and military records (if ex-military). They scrutinize it pretty thoroughly.

Study Jepp charts, App plates, and arrival/dept procedures. They might ask you some pretty obscure questions from those.

Know your IFR rules such as alt requirements, fuel requirements, lost comm. Procedures, when to continue an approach below mins, etc...

The sim was actually the easiest part. When I did the sim, it was a no motion 707. Just fly the profile that they brief before the sim session and ask the non flying pilot for EVERYTHING. He/she is there to help you. I think all I did was do some turns to familiarize then fly an ILS to a miss and hold for one turn. Straight forward and easy.

The physical (like many have stated) is like a frig'n astronaut physical. KY and everything. I have 20/20, but they still questioned my eyesight. They had me read from the view finder thing and were not quite sure so they took me to the ole poster with the letters thing on the wall. Passed it and the rest was wasted history. Oh yeah, they used to do this psych test on the computer. I don't know if they still do that though.

Good luck and remember that I warned you.

Actually, it wouldn't be a bad practice interview. I'd probably do it just for that reason if you've never done a 121 interview before.