e6bpilot

Who knows...high performance is technically any aircraft above 250 hp. I would say you could email them and ask.

MikeF16

Pretty sure it is their intent to lower the hours requirement for fighter pilots but as long as you feel like you can justify your answer in an interview have a nut. If I flew heavies I wouldn't consider my aircraft high performance just to make it under the wire of a reduced hours requirement. Makes me wonder if they'd consider the pathetically underpowered T-37 and T-38 "high performance" .

seattlepilot

threw my name in the hat. not expecting a phone call though

e6bpilot

I am over 3,000 either way, so it doesn't matter to me. I would agree, that sounds like the intent of the 1,200 question. Single seat guys tend to get less hours due to shorter legs. I don't know that a 1,200 fighter guy equals a 3,000 heavy guy in experience level (2.5 to 3 flying tours) though, but I am not the one doing the hiring.
I agree, though, where do you draw the line? T-37? T-38? T-34 (550HP, but waaaaaay underpowered), T-6?

There are a lot of UPT and Navy VT guys that have over 1,200 in model and less than 3,000 total.

Somerset78

What's up with the nicotine question? No smoking at Alaska? Even the gum, haha. And going back 2 years no less, wow. Not that I'm a smoker, just found it curious.

e6bpilot

I found that curious too. Maybe someone from Alaska can weigh in...
Insurance premiums?
Company culture?

It sure eliminates a lot of qualified candidates.

Packrat

Its been that way for at least 25 years. The curious thing is once you get hired, they don't care if you smoke. Go figure.

P.S. They test for nicotine on your pre-hire drug test.

Mudhen200

On my interview day - all of us in suits and ties, sitting together in a large room, filling out the paperwork. A HR lady is walking around us like an old school nun looking over our shoulders as we all write our "tell us about yourself" stories. A military guy raises his hand and asks about the smoking / nicotine question. He obviously had not studied the company and had no idea. He tells the HR lady that he does not smoke, but that he did have a cigar at a friends wedding about 6 weeks ago - and was that OK? She says to him, it's a yes or no question - have you smoked in the last two years. He says, well... I guess I have and marks his paper as such.
We all turn our paperwork in and are giving our instructions on where to go and what to do for the next phase - except Mr. Knucklehead, who was thanked for his time and sent out the door. True story...

WARich

I don't think I know one mil type that hasn't smoked a cigar in the last 2 yrs. Geesh....... Of course except for myself.....

Packrat

Unlike pot which can be detected in urine for a month, nicotine is gone in 4-5 days. If you haven't smoked in a couple weeks, you're probably ok.

Don't be a Knucklehead.