Atlas Air Hiring
10-02-2011, 07:11 PM
#2414
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Whew....just wen't through the whole thread...looks like a goldmine of info and has confirmed my interest in the company. I'm a USAF KC-135 guy with 3,300 ish TT, 2,200 PIC with a good amount of overwater/international time. A few questions:
1. My ADSC isn't up until next summer but there are opportunities for leaving earlier (RIF, Palace Chase). Talking with a friend at the company, I'm planning on putting an app in this week ut I'm wondering what to expect. Will an availability date that far out immediately put my app at the bottom of the stack or is it possible to interview and be hired with an understanding that a class date will follow shortly after becoming available? Any of the mil guys been down this road?
1. Don't know this answer
2. I've heard a lot about this online test. Now 100 questions with 60 minutes to finish correct? Looks like lots of questions from 'Ace the Technical Pilot Interview' which looks like a pretty hit and miss source for info. Lots of MNPS/NAT stuff too. Am I good looking at AP and 11-202, or are there better sources out there? Assume having the 'Aircrew Quick Reference Guide to TAF/METAR Codes' handy helps too? How are folks doing on the new test?....not a lot of time to reference your answers it seems.
yes all good stuff...earlier in the thread someone posted 33 of the 50 earlier interviewee test... not sure about the new one but same type...plus it is a crew airplane if you have some knowledgeable folks sitting around on an RON
3. ACMI vs Charter? I'm assuming it comes down to who pays for the fuel correct?
still fairly new and this sounds correct
4. Are most new-hires going into the 76 now or is it pretty evenly split with the 74? Anything on your record or in the hiring process that will push you towards one airframe or another or is it simply based on the company's needs at the time? Not that I'd make a decision to join the company based on airframe but I am curious.
Not sure
5. For the Guard/Reserve guys - how do you guys handle your civ/mil balance. I'm just learning about such things and need some educating. 17 day trip at Atlas followed by a couple days logging beans at the unit during your days off or do you just do the mil leave thing when your unit needs you? How do drill weekends work? Do you try to work your bids to be available to your unit or do things just work themselves out?
Thanks for the info and to all who have posted here.
Tanker
1. My ADSC isn't up until next summer but there are opportunities for leaving earlier (RIF, Palace Chase). Talking with a friend at the company, I'm planning on putting an app in this week ut I'm wondering what to expect. Will an availability date that far out immediately put my app at the bottom of the stack or is it possible to interview and be hired with an understanding that a class date will follow shortly after becoming available? Any of the mil guys been down this road?
1. Don't know this answer
2. I've heard a lot about this online test. Now 100 questions with 60 minutes to finish correct? Looks like lots of questions from 'Ace the Technical Pilot Interview' which looks like a pretty hit and miss source for info. Lots of MNPS/NAT stuff too. Am I good looking at AP and 11-202, or are there better sources out there? Assume having the 'Aircrew Quick Reference Guide to TAF/METAR Codes' handy helps too? How are folks doing on the new test?....not a lot of time to reference your answers it seems.
yes all good stuff...earlier in the thread someone posted 33 of the 50 earlier interviewee test... not sure about the new one but same type...plus it is a crew airplane if you have some knowledgeable folks sitting around on an RON
3. ACMI vs Charter? I'm assuming it comes down to who pays for the fuel correct?
still fairly new and this sounds correct
4. Are most new-hires going into the 76 now or is it pretty evenly split with the 74? Anything on your record or in the hiring process that will push you towards one airframe or another or is it simply based on the company's needs at the time? Not that I'd make a decision to join the company based on airframe but I am curious.
Not sure
5. For the Guard/Reserve guys - how do you guys handle your civ/mil balance. I'm just learning about such things and need some educating. 17 day trip at Atlas followed by a couple days logging beans at the unit during your days off or do you just do the mil leave thing when your unit needs you? How do drill weekends work? Do you try to work your bids to be available to your unit or do things just work themselves out?
Thanks for the info and to all who have posted here.
Tanker
. have several computers and google going...5.u don't have to do all 17 in a row if you don't wish to...depending on the drill and requirements remaining i may or may not get a drill excusal otherwise i'll have my schedulers get those days as mil days which come from your off days for the month. pretty much i bid the days off i want then back fill my off days with additional guard days/drills.
Good luck!!
10-03-2011, 04:35 PM
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10-03-2011, 04:44 PM
#2419
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4. Are most new-hires going into the 76 now or is it pretty evenly split with the 74? Anything on your record or in the hiring process that will push you towards one airframe or another or is it simply based on the company's needs at the time? Not that I'd make a decision to join the company based on airframe but I am curious.
Tanker
Other than some 742 fo's who have been awarded a transition/upgrade bid (and a couple of junior 74 captains), most all of the 76 captain upgrades are coming from the 744 right seat. In addition, there will be an increase in the number of 744 airframes to man. Consequently, there will be hiring into the right seat of the 744 (and the 76) for the forseeable future. The hiring process is basically impossible to decipher, but there is a better than even chance that if you are qualified in either the 74 or the 76, you will find yourself in class for that equipment.
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10-03-2011, 06:24 PM
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OK - I have what might be too obvious of a question. I'm looking at the Atlas Pre-Application Questionaire.
In the experience block, it asks for: "Turbine (turboprop+jet) time" and "Turbine (turboprop+jet) PIC time"
Then, further down in the 'Simulator Requirements' section it asks: "Do you have at least 2500 hours actual flight time as either PIC or SIC in a turbojet aircraft with a takeoff gross weight of 12,500 pounds or greater?" and "Have you served as either PIC or SIC on at least two turboject airplanes with a takeoff gross weight of 12,500 pounds or greater?"
And again in 'Operating Experience'
"Do you have more than 1500 hours flight time as either PIC or SIC in turbojet powered airplanes?"
So, being a career C-130 guy, my dumb question is are they looking for pure jet time in the 'simulator' and 'operating' questions, or can I count my C-130 turboprop experience? It just seems odd the various ways they ask the same questions...
In the experience block, it asks for: "Turbine (turboprop+jet) time" and "Turbine (turboprop+jet) PIC time"
Then, further down in the 'Simulator Requirements' section it asks: "Do you have at least 2500 hours actual flight time as either PIC or SIC in a turbojet aircraft with a takeoff gross weight of 12,500 pounds or greater?" and "Have you served as either PIC or SIC on at least two turboject airplanes with a takeoff gross weight of 12,500 pounds or greater?"
And again in 'Operating Experience'
"Do you have more than 1500 hours flight time as either PIC or SIC in turbojet powered airplanes?"
So, being a career C-130 guy, my dumb question is are they looking for pure jet time in the 'simulator' and 'operating' questions, or can I count my C-130 turboprop experience? It just seems odd the various ways they ask the same questions...
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