American interviews and class dates
01-11-2014, 09:06 PM
#591
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Joined APC: Jul 2006
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My favorite story. On the -80, years ago. CA is starting the right engine while taxiing. Left hand on tiller, right hand staying up on start switch. Then he goes off and makes a PA to boot. That's right, he's got THREE things going on while at the same time taxiing at a busy airport. Me, I was just shaking my head in disbelief.
Oh, and the CA making the PA while taxiing was not a sterile violation: AA is the only airline that I know of that got an FAA exemption to allow the CA to make the "prepare for takeoff" PA. Don't ask, I have no clue.
USAir bubbas, you need to push for your procedures!
01-12-2014, 05:46 AM
#592
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Joined APC: Jan 2007
Posts: 736
The presented did not say it was the "minimum". He said it was the official number but he believed, in his personal opinion, that it would be more(I agree with him).
He stated that AA is training capacity constrained.
Personal observation - Drilling in the small parking lot, between the sim building and the ground school building, last month and the drillers said it would be for a sim building extension. SimP said he thought it was enough room for 4 sims. Size seems correct.
He stated that AA is training capacity constrained.
Personal observation - Drilling in the small parking lot, between the sim building and the ground school building, last month and the drillers said it would be for a sim building extension. SimP said he thought it was enough room for 4 sims. Size seems correct.
01-12-2014, 07:38 AM
#593
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Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: B-717 FO / C-17 AC
Posts: 2,467
Spot on. I really, really, REALLY hope the USAirways cockpit culture prevails. AA's ancestral worship has our captains doing strange things the F/Os should really be doing while on the ground. Starting engines. Making PAs while taxiing. Answering to EVERY dad gummed item on the already-long checklist. Etc, etc. It needs to change. A CA should have just one duty while on the ground - staying heads up while taxiing. That's it.
My favorite story. On the -80, years ago. CA is starting the right engine while taxiing. Left hand on tiller, right hand staying up on start switch. Then he goes off and makes a PA to boot. That's right, he's got THREE things going on while at the same time taxiing at a busy airport. Me, I was just shaking my head in disbelief.
Oh, and the CA making the PA while taxiing was not a sterile violation: AA is the only airline that I know of that got an FAA exemption to allow the CA to make the "prepare for takeoff" PA. Don't ask, I have no clue.
USAir bubbas, you need to push for your procedures!
My favorite story. On the -80, years ago. CA is starting the right engine while taxiing. Left hand on tiller, right hand staying up on start switch. Then he goes off and makes a PA to boot. That's right, he's got THREE things going on while at the same time taxiing at a busy airport. Me, I was just shaking my head in disbelief.
Oh, and the CA making the PA while taxiing was not a sterile violation: AA is the only airline that I know of that got an FAA exemption to allow the CA to make the "prepare for takeoff" PA. Don't ask, I have no clue.
USAir bubbas, you need to push for your procedures!
That is interesting, especially with the industry wide push to move most checklist items to be accomplished before the aircraft ever starts rolling (obviously starting the other engine or engines on the taxi is an exemption).
What drives the AA philosophy of the captain doing everything, there surely must be a reason behind it. We had the same thing at Skywest and I always thought that it was too high a workload for the captain. And if the pilot group agrees that this should be changed, where is the resistance coming from?
01-12-2014, 11:55 AM
#595
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Joined APC: Dec 2013
Position: 73N FO
Posts: 179
I just published my App, including the assessment. I guess from this point forward, no news is good news until you get an email for the video interview? If you get the TBNT email, does that occur within a few weeks or days of publishing the app, or when they do a mass review of some sort? Just curious what to expect...
Has anyone with availability > 6 months gotten a call to interview? Or are they fulfilling short term demand interviewing/reviewing apps for immediate availability? Wondering if there is a pool building or not...or if there is a correlation between availability and getting an email/call for advancement in the process....thanks.
Has anyone with availability > 6 months gotten a call to interview? Or are they fulfilling short term demand interviewing/reviewing apps for immediate availability? Wondering if there is a pool building or not...or if there is a correlation between availability and getting an email/call for advancement in the process....thanks.
01-12-2014, 12:20 PM
#596
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Joined APC: Apr 2013
Posts: 3,650
I just published my App, including the assessment. I guess from this point forward, no news is good news until you get an email for the video interview? If you get the TBNT email, does that occur within a few weeks or days of publishing the app, or when they do a mass review of some sort? Just curious what to expect...
Has anyone with availability > 6 months gotten a call to interview? Or are they fulfilling short term demand interviewing/reviewing apps for immediate availability? Wondering if there is a pool building or not...or if there is a correlation between availability and getting an email/call for advancement in the process....thanks.
Has anyone with availability > 6 months gotten a call to interview? Or are they fulfilling short term demand interviewing/reviewing apps for immediate availability? Wondering if there is a pool building or not...or if there is a correlation between availability and getting an email/call for advancement in the process....thanks.
01-13-2014, 04:07 AM
#598
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Joined APC: Jul 2006
Posts: 2,918
That is interesting, especially with the industry wide push to move most checklist items to be accomplished before the aircraft ever starts rolling (obviously starting the other engine or engines on the taxi is an exemption).
What drives the AA philosophy of the captain doing everything, there surely must be a reason behind it. We had the same thing at Skywest and I always thought that it was too high a workload for the captain. And if the pilot group agrees that this should be changed, where is the resistance coming from?
What drives the AA philosophy of the captain doing everything, there surely must be a reason behind it. We had the same thing at Skywest and I always thought that it was too high a workload for the captain. And if the pilot group agrees that this should be changed, where is the resistance coming from?
Resistance? Oh man do I have stories for ya. Getting stuff procedurally changed here is akin to the Titanic's iceberg-avoidance turn rate.
01-13-2014, 04:18 AM
#599
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Joined APC: Jun 2008
Position: CA
Posts: 483
Skinner is in from the Airways side and AQP has been his baby. I'd offer that things will change on the AA side (at least as each new Airbus is delivered) more towards flows and fewer/smaller checklists with the Captain only worrying about taxiing. Nothing to get too riled up about, you'll enjoy the 'new' way of doing things.
01-13-2014, 06:54 AM
#600
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Joined APC: Jul 2012
Posts: 737
I would have ZERO problems with trimming checklists and altering procedures at AA. I've been on the 777 for a while, and the closed-loop electronic checklist is a glorious thing, so there's very little to be done taxiing out. Weights/thrust, flaps, trim. So I've lost touch a bit with some of the older jets' procedures.
What I don't want to lose is the training culture itself; the school instructors and current CKA group are outstanding. It sounds like US also has this, so hopefully we'll mesh very well.
Slightly OT: We have a couple of guys right here from this forum in school as we speak, in the 8 Jan class. I think it'd be really cool if they started a thread describing the experience, the good and the bad.
How about it, new guys?
What I don't want to lose is the training culture itself; the school instructors and current CKA group are outstanding. It sounds like US also has this, so hopefully we'll mesh very well.
Slightly OT: We have a couple of guys right here from this forum in school as we speak, in the 8 Jan class. I think it'd be really cool if they started a thread describing the experience, the good and the bad.
How about it, new guys?
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