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08-11-2025 | 11:32 AM
#761
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08-11-2025 | 03:10 PM
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I can’t stand the TMAAT questions. It makes the interview feel like a silly game. I much prefer just going in and nailing technical questions.
08-11-2025 | 03:15 PM
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I’d recommend Emerald Coast. Don’t quote me on the specifics but I believe Emerald Coast says that are 14 basic subject areas where TMAATS can come from. If you take the course, they cover this in great detail. They also recommend you have 2 stories for each type of question. After taking the course and their zoom sessions you get really good at categorizing each TMAAT so that you can access the best story from your database to fit the question.
08-11-2025 | 03:19 PM
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Yea, and honestly….you can just make up a story. Obviously make it plausible and try to at least base it on something that really happened (like a historical fiction) but otherwise how will they know that xyz situation actually happened or not?
I can’t stand the TMAAT questions. It makes the interview feel like a silly game. I much prefer just going in and nailing technical questions.
I can’t stand the TMAAT questions. It makes the interview feel like a silly game. I much prefer just going in and nailing technical questions.
Especially if you’re going to go the route of making up a story - keep it simple, use the STAR format to keep it organized and easy to follow, and demonstrate your decision making process.
Tech questions are importantly, but even the smartest pilot in the room is useless if they can’t apply that knowledge in a rational and logical way. That’s where TMAAT comes into play.
08-11-2025 | 03:34 PM
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Making stuff up probably gets you on a path you don’t want to go down and could result in
08-11-2025 | 04:10 PM
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I’ve heard that you get one question you can pass on, but that info is from a few years old when they were casting a wide hiring net. I don’t know anyone that has interviewed under the new pilot hiring regime.
Ideally the interview prep company that you’ve hired to help you get hired should make it so you’re well prepared for an interview and there aren’t many surprises.
08-11-2025 | 04:29 PM
#768
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”TMAAT you didn’t get along with a CA/Crew member”
- Conflict resolution
”TMAAT you went above and beyond for a passenger”
- Customer Service
They don’t care about having some crazy story. They want to know which core competencies you have.
If you genuinely don’t have one, don’t make it up. They’re trained to sniff the BS. Just be honest and say you don’t have a specific story for that particular TMAAT question.
This is where prep companies are worth their weight in gold. Spend the money and prep.
08-11-2025 | 05:09 PM
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While you are the protagonist in every story, there can be no Bad Guys.
So Emerald Coast suggest having a database of stories that you can easily recollect and have told them out loud before.
Yes,use the Situation Task Action Result (STAR) chronological order.
What you don’t want to do is get trapped and to have to think really hard of a story that fits the question exactly but doesn’t have a very good ending and wont accentuate your good qualities.
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