Just looking to get feedback from anyone recently hired... I'm wondering how hard it's going to be for me to get on with a regional airline, given I have a few (3) checkride failures?

For those of you in my situation, just wondering who you got hired on with, what kind of times you have, did you have internal recs, etc... curious what it's going to take to get past those failures. Thanks for your time!

I had two busts...never even came up in the interviews back in 2006. Just be honest. We will need pilots.

Ive been turned down by PDT , told I didn't meet eagle, mesaba requirements.

Haven't heard anything from

Asa with internal Rec

Cape air

Psa

Tsa / gojet

Times are 900 with 120 multi 100 me turbine

Supposedly commutair will not hire with 3 failures. A friend was told at the iterview he passed but couldn't get hired due to 3 failures.

Keep your head up and be open to anything.

Slight addition to that - what is your background like? Are you flight instructing, doing 135, what? Times?

Three is quite a few. If you're flight instructing and have three failures, I wish you the best of luck. Your problem might not be the interview (you can probably provide examples of what you learned through each failure, etc.), it's going to be getting the interview.

Yeah what kind of failures were they? Also were they FAA failures with DEs or just "stage checks"? Stage checks @ part 141 schools aren't kept as "failures" at most school so they aren't the kind of failures you need to report. When airlines ask for failures they mean the ones performed by faa designated examiners where you get an actual pink slip.

FAA failures unfortunately. 2 I probably deserved, 1 that was more of a misunderstanding (though I know better than to blame it on the DE in an interview). I'm instructing right now (CFI/II/MEI), 2400 tt/ 150 multi.

It doesn't hurt to apply. Apply everywhere. It's my thought that the places that use sites like Airline Apps use those sites to filter the results, and as such would probably never get your app with three failed rides. Find contacts in the company, email resumes directly. You gotta make yourself stand out. You got the TT and the multi for most places, and I'm guessing with that much time it's been a while since you failed anything anyways.


Could be (probably is) a total coincidence, but nobody in my new hire class had failed a checkride except one guy, and he had only failed his private.

Yeah, I hear the one you want to fail is the private. If you pass the rest up to atp that pretty much makes it forgivable. Private and CFI have the highest failure rates of any certificates. I thought I read somewhere the cfi is like 50/50 pass/fail.


Sorry to hear that. Are they something you could explain in an interview? Are they major or kinda "gee wiz" fails?

How do you know that? Most people don't go around bragging about failed check rides.

You spend weeks together, you talk. In fact we spent time going over our PRIA and background stuff and talking about our history. Anyone could just have easily made up some elaborate background story instead of saying "I was a flight instructor", but nobody did from what I could tell. Believe what you want, I have no reason to believe anybody deliberately went to some ridiculous extent to hide something that obviously didn't matter since they were in the class anyways.