Silver Airways
10-07-2013, 12:15 PM
#4491
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2010
Position: Rich People Pirate
Posts: 136
10-07-2013, 12:47 PM
#4493
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2009
Posts: 332
Hey bird dog,
It's been about a year and a half since I did it and I know they have changed a few specifics but I will tell you what my experience was.
Face to face interview with a check airman and a rep from the chief pilots office. Normal logbook and resume review. A few simple questions about my experience and why I wanted to work for Silver. This part was very straight forward.
Then it was off to a written test on a computer. Please take your time with this test. It was not difficult subjects (normal ATP and instrument questions) but it was very trickily written, to the point of being stupid. Read the ....ing question. They may have changed this test some, but silver has a knack for writing stupid tests. Pick the least wrong answer.
Sim was a fairly easy profile in a Frasca type beech 1900 non moving sim. Take off, how would you enter this hold, and then an ils. The examiner was your "pilot monitoring" and could be used to do pretty much anything you asked. Not a hard sim ride in my opinion. Just show that you know how to control an aircraft and fly an ils.
Good luck! When is it and what's your back ground? Where you from?
It's been about a year and a half since I did it and I know they have changed a few specifics but I will tell you what my experience was.
Face to face interview with a check airman and a rep from the chief pilots office. Normal logbook and resume review. A few simple questions about my experience and why I wanted to work for Silver. This part was very straight forward.
Then it was off to a written test on a computer. Please take your time with this test. It was not difficult subjects (normal ATP and instrument questions) but it was very trickily written, to the point of being stupid. Read the ....ing question. They may have changed this test some, but silver has a knack for writing stupid tests. Pick the least wrong answer.
Sim was a fairly easy profile in a Frasca type beech 1900 non moving sim. Take off, how would you enter this hold, and then an ils. The examiner was your "pilot monitoring" and could be used to do pretty much anything you asked. Not a hard sim ride in my opinion. Just show that you know how to control an aircraft and fly an ils.
Good luck! When is it and what's your back ground? Where you from?
10-08-2013, 08:28 PM
#4496
I'm a man of my word.
Joined APC: Jul 2008
Position: Devil's Advocate
Posts: 2,883
10-09-2013, 12:06 AM
#4498
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: May 2009
Position: underemployed
Posts: 190
Don't work for free! I don't care what email you get from union(and I am one of the few union supporters). Do NOT take that online course. We work as it is for less than the guy that made me my chalupa today. He wouldn't serve up a volcano taco on his off time. I don't do company crap for free either. Silver university? Good luck. Dequal away. I could use some time off.
10-09-2013, 05:22 AM
#4499
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2010
Position: Rich People Pirate
Posts: 136
Don't work for free! I don't care what email you get from union(and I am one of the few union supporters). Do NOT take that online course. We work as it is for less than the guy that made me my chalupa today. He wouldn't serve up a volcano taco on his off time. I don't do company crap for free either. Silver university? Good luck. Dequal away. I could use some time off.
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