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Hello Folks in the know, have my interview coming up in 30 or so days. Can anyone shed some light on their current experience/tips regarding above. I using Emerald Coast prep.

Thank you

Get your TMAAT down. Don’t worry about the specific question but understand that the questions are designed to ask you about leadership, conflict resolution and customer service at a minimum. Be able to knock “Why United” out of the park.

Follow their directions to the letter on what they want you to study. No more/ no less. It is not a trick. United is very straight forward. Also, tab your logbook and don’t bring in a hot mess of papers and logbooks for them to figure out. Make everything about you professional.

Good luck.


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Thank you for the valued information

All of this! Definitely tab that logbook. Electronic is great, but always bring your original paper logbooks if you've kept those and transferred over. Endorsements will be looked at, so make sure those are available to the interview team.

Got a question I’m pretty sure I already know the answer to. I lost a small paper logbook I had for my current airline so I added it in as one flight with 1,300 hours in my digital book. This is a bad idea and I should probably find a way to get each leg entered individually right?

I know a guy who's wife burned his logbooks during the divorce. He went down to the FSDO, swore on a stock of AIMs and FARs and started a new logbook with the FSDOs endorsement, no attempt to rebuild the flight time. Got the job. YMMV.

I have an interview coming up too. Question: I have a nice Prosoft Logbook (paid way too much for it) and plan to get a consult in setting it up, but my physical student pilot logbook contains all my original endorsements. The endorsements are complete, but they're kind of a mess and not organized. Should I do what I did last interview and photocopy the endorsements to put in the Prosoft logbook? I don't want to make a bad impression with old logbooks.

Just bring your originals with your printed out logbook.

That’s interesting. I’m surprised the FAA did not hit her with a federal violation of tampering with federal flight records. Not a lawyer but I would think since those are required to verify for federal licensure and certificates that was an Avenue that could have been looked at. And BTW…I would have just said to her. “C U Next Time!”

TMAAT you were given a free TUMI suitcase and how did it make you feel?

I'm sure he didn't do anything that possibly ****ed her off....

8710s/IACRA flight times are also valid for rebuilding a logbook. It's a bit of a pain, but I always fill out the flight time section in IACRA when I get a new type just in case I lose my logbooks. It won't be perfect, but it's probably a better place to start than not having anything at all.

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I used this and ECIC and got the CJO. Went pretty much verbatim to some of the examples given.

Good luck

How far out from the interview does United arrange travel?
I'm two weeks away and haven't heard anything about booking a ticket out there yet.

Roughly a week out

1 to 3 weeks out…

Yeah about lost logbooks—had a logbook in my flight case when I was working on my commercial or something, had about 300 hours in it but to me it was my life! Car was broken into and my bag was ripped off.

Long story short, I sent off a records request to the FAA (nothing online then) particularly for the 8710’s. I reconstructed what I could and put in the dates of checkrides and such. The one thing I didn’t have was my tail wheel endorsement which is a sore point but anyway got it back later.

I filed a police report, and started the new logbook off with a notarized page and a police report number along with the reconstructed times.

Was the notary necessary? Maybe not, but it was a cheap way to make it as official as possible. I had some questions about it at interviews but it was never a deal breaker and the interviewer usually took interest in my process.

So note to self—fill in the 8710 flight times! It’s automated now so it’s worth the extra two minutes.

Also, it was interesting to see the FAA records.

For those leaving a regional or any carrier for that matter, you can also request your training records. Good way to keep track of sim time if that’s your thing.

I was nervous about my logbooks not passing muster during the interview, so I sent away to the FAA for all my 8710's, etc. I printed them and included them in addition to my printed electronic logbook, and my original paper logbook. I got the jorb with no questions asked about my logs, so I guess I did OK. There was a guy in my interview group that did not get hired due to poor logbooks.

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On this topic, I have my paper logbooks converted to digital but obviously none of the dual received time has the CFI's endorsement in the remarks since that's in the paper logbook. Is this an issue as long as I bring my paper logbooks too? Tab both electronic of just one or the other?

No. As long as you have all of your originals that contain endorsements and sign offs then you are good. I converted all of mine to digital. I showed up with all my old logs books and just tabbed everything plus tabbing where my electronic official took over as the primary.


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Not interviewing just curious, why would United want to see original endorsements and sign off’s? I’m assuming you have a decent 121/135 or military history prior to applying so everything relevant has been documented and verified.
With every checkride pre ATP your logbook gets scrutinized.

Due diligence. They probably don’t even look at them because of the reason you just stated. They just want to show that you can produce them so they can say they did their due diligence.


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Again, due diligence?
That’s been done by DPE’s, FAA inspectors, training centers etc etc.
What else they want to see? Expired medicals and temporary certificates?

Who knows? You want to get hired or not? Doesn’t really matter the reason. Because they want you to jump through hoops. Again, want to get hired or not?


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Such a thought terminating cliche.

You are wanting an answer to something that neither you nor I control. I gave you a best guess on it and you chose to continue questioning it. If you are truly interested in finding the answer then this board is not the best place for that. If you want to get hired, do as they say. It’s that simple. There are countless questions as to why airline hiring departments do what they do. In the end most of it doesn’t make sense. But two things we can for sure count on…1) you will never get them to divulge why they do what they do and 2) If you don’t play the game they want you to play, you will not be hired, regardless of how silly it may seem.


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It is very easy to pencil whip a logbook. Example You claim to have never failed a checkride but then some don't believe an end of course in 141 training is a "checkride." It isn't a pink slip so there is no faa record. There it is in your logbook multiple "EOC" with retraining in-between. You can read between the lines like that for all your checkrides and they are looking for patterns.

Got the invite to interview. What's this 'Applicable FAA 8710-1 documentation validating previous certifications' all about? For people who were interviewed does just using my most recent type ride 8710 work or do I have to track down every single one (private, instrument, instructor, etc)?

That’s most likely not for you. Just have your logbooks and your ATP on hand, you don’t need any 8710s. If you have a temporary paper certificate use that.

Rodge yeah I have the hard card ATP, was just a bit confused by that. Thank you for the reply.

Anyone had success changing the travel voucher date?

8710s are only for folks who have lost or had their logbooks stolen.

I actually requested all my 8710s and gather everything they asked for on the email saying what to bring and they ONLYasked for my certficates and logbook. I spent a lot of effort gathering all training records and 8710s -_-

is it absolutely necessary to have a bachelors degree in order to get an interview with United? I'm at 100/120 credits, so it'll be about another year before I finish my bachelors. Maybe I'm being a bit too optimistic, but I was planning to apply to United once i have 500 turbine sic which should be sometime this coming spring or summer. I also have some military experience (non-pilot) if that helps at all.

I got hired with no degree. 1200 turbine

thats good to hear. Did you have a letter of recommendation from a United pilot?

i was looking at the requirements and I saw that they changed the 1000 turbine requirement to “preferred”. So I want to try at 500, and I think a letter of recommendation is still required?

Hi everyone, sorry for the message in the possible “wrong” thread.

But for those of you who attended any hiring event, Meet the Chiefs, how long after that were you invited for the in-person interview in Denver?

I attended the Meet the Chiefs event in Orlando/FL on Saturday, 11/05, but haven’t heard anything yet and the captain who interviewed me said my CV was pretty strong (6.000+ hours on the B737NG/MAX as FO).

Thank you so much guys!

I was there also. I just checked and my app is now locked "in review". That's new since yesterday or Tuesday, whenever I last looked. I'm military, but you're 737 time is double my total time, FWIW. Fingers crossed, good luck.