I used Cage Marshall, but a ton of the work was done on my own. Every interview I go through the list of 150-200 TMAATs on AviationInterviews.com. I copy and paste into Word Doc and legit answer them out. When done print off and take with me on trips.

I then go a step further and I create another Word Doc. This one has the name of a story in big bold lettering on the left side. Then on the right hand side I list every TMAAT this story can be used for. I came up with this on my own for United and it was invaluable.

I was smiling inside because I knew EXACTLY what I was going to be talking about before these guys were even halfway done asking the question. It was incredible and the most prepared and less stressed I’d had been at any other interview prior. But this didn’t happen by accident.

I put in a ton of work and spent every single day for 6 weeks going over my stories and knowing exactly which ones paired up with which questions.

Cage was great, no doubt, but I feel like they are more geared in helping you navigate any potential land mines like how you can answer failed a check rides, speeding tickets or any other blemishes.

If anyone needs more clarification or help feel free to DM me.

 

I am with you. I’m working with a great prep company, but I honestly feel that the work I do on my own by pouring into all of the TMAAT and technical questions on Aviation Interviews is making me more confident than the prep company. They are great to get a good idea of general corrections I can make in the presentation of my answers but I want to know as many potential scenarios as possible before I go in.

 

I used ECIC and this is essentially what they recommended (and what I did) for the TMAAT portion. Concur that it works extremely well. I hear some poo poo prep - “oooh airline xyz can sniff out canned answers”, etc. The whole point being that nothing is canned/regurgitated if you’re doing it right (unless you’re just lying and describing a TMAAT that just didn’t happen). The prep just ensures that you can concisely recall your numerous stories and deliver them in a brief amount of time while including pertinent parts and leaving out the rambling ones😄

 

I used Spitfire and the group TMAAT sessions were very valuable, they also had Technical United sessions. You really only need 6-8 stories that cover the big topics, then be able to adjust your story to portray the topic they are asking about. Not lying, but you can emphasize parts of a conflict story (for example) to clearly
answer them and always finish with “what you learned and how you would apply it in the future”.

Beware, people are failing interviews! you need to follow the advice above and really go in with a solid
plan. My technical portion was a laid back conversation but others get charts, checklists, plates and get
grilled during the tech portion.

Best of luck.

 

thank you. I’m working with Spitfire as well. I’ve heard a lot of people are failing recently on the technical side. I feel pretty good about it because I’ve been flying the 737/121 for a while but have been listening to the technical session recordings and memorizing the study guide etc. I think I am mostly worried about the new AI software they are using to generate the TMAAT questions. I’ve heard they can be long and confusing. Spitfires questions are pretty straightforward.

 

Purely out of curiosity, do you have an example of one of these generated TMAATs?

 

That’s what I’ve been trying to find! On aviation interviews, the most recent interview reports keep saying that the questions are long and complicated and generated on computer, but i don’t think the prep companies have those questions yet. Just the standard ones.

 

For everyone using Spitfire, use the Trip Reports! I’ve met so many people who have spitfire who have not touched the trip reports and it blows my mind. I just reviewed this last weeks round of questions and none are beyond the pale. Yeah, there’s always a curveball, but the questions are relatively consistent.

 

Interesting. Seems to me, regardless of how they’re asked, the themes are fairly consistent - conflict, disregarded a reg, etc. Just curious to see what one looked like.

 

Glad I interviewed before AI. It was much easier to just be able to think while the interview CA was just taking a drag on his cigarette and formulating his question off the cuff.