A check ride bust or two, within itself, is not a showstopper…particularly in this hiring environment. You just need to figure out if you actually busted or not. If you didn’t officially bust, no need to bring this up ever again.

Obviously, for this interview you’ll have to explain what you sent in (get some counsel with that). I think you can still make it through this interview..it’s not too late. In short, get the facts then figure out a game plan for the interview. Best of luck bud…

Did you get a notice of disapproval/failure? If so, then they definitely count.

Busts in themselves are not disqualifying. Every good interviewer knows that even those with completely “clean” records probably had a gimme or two. On paper I have zero failures or non sats in 29 years of flying. Truth be told, in 1991 I should have failed my commercial SEL oral exam in the 172RG.

“Tell me how the CS prop works....”

“Well, you turn the knob to the right and the speed increases.”

“Great. How does it WORK?”

“You turn the knob to the left and the prop speed decreases. To the right it increases.”

“Great. So what mechanism makes the prop increase and decrease speed?”

“THE KNOB.”

I then got a lesson in governors, speeder springs and oil pressure. Lesson learned without a pinkie. Grounds for failure? Absolutely. Gimme.

PM me your FTN and I'll look it up.

Borne to fly the bus

Well I did get in a G1000 182 last week and by habit pulled the altitude knob off the panel when assigned a climb whatdaya mean this plane can’t do OPEN CLIMB? Oops. Remarkably the plane can’t do groundspeed mini either. If you come in 30kts above ref you come in 30kts above ref. It’s been a rough week...

In preparation for the interview what do you recommend. A prep course or? I was recommended emerald coast.

Read the willflyforfood interview profiles (free), and the last earnings report and maybe a couple other investor updates. Also, the JetBlue Wikipedia page is decent for a history of the airline. I don’t see any need to shell out hundreds of dollars for an interview, but some people swear by it.

I wouldn't recommend emerald coast for this interview . It's really jusy a personality interview , unless you need to brush up on basic interview skills . I suggest coming up with a solid 8 - 10 diverse stories, that you can answer any of their TMAAT questions. You can find those questions on aviationinterviews and will fly for food and of course have a good answer for the "why JetBlue " question . Practice telling your stories and have others listen . Know some history about JetBlue and current events. Wikipedia is a good place to start . Be yourself . Good luck !

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I would disagree just a little with your suggestion that JetBlue’s interview is just about personality. Jetblue wants the “Tell me about a time” questions told and answered in a very specific format. Here lies the issue most pilots suffer from the durignthe actual interview.