Cruz5350

4 FO 4 Captain

ilsbird

wat are the chances of any new FOs going to Tampa or anywhere in Florida, and if you get somewhere in the NE as a base, and if you chose a hotel to stay during your trip time, do the airline cover your hotel costs or its on your own, cause i did remember the chief pilot telling me at the interview that will you relocate to your base cause thats our prefrerence.

PerpetualFlyer

I'm too lazy to find the link for a face palm picture but you're in for a real treat...

Cruz5350

You're assigned a base you are responsible for your own housing while there. Don't count on FL there is many senior people up here itching to go back down south.

kuba3839

Cruz5350 Is the Willflyforfood the best gouge to use? or at least is it pretty accurate?

kuba3839

Does anyone know if they have started hiring FOs again or is it still street captains?

Cruz5350

I think it is accurate.

Cruz5350

Just go in there and be yourself. If you do the written test it's a mixture of some 121 regs and instrument/ATP written questions, all info that you should know at this point in your career. The sim is basic instrument flying that you should have down pat at this point also. The rest will be taught to you in training. They're looking for honest folks who have good knowledge and flying skills to build upon.

sandrich

Id say out of the 14 hours flying the sim, 8 of it was single engine. It really varies from instructor to instructor, and you'll have probably 3 or 4 different ones. To get signed off for the checkride, theres 137 areas you have to have satisfactorily completely at some point in the training. You'll experience every single type of annunciator/failure/error from GPWS, dual engine flameout, to a simple Cabin Door. Sometimes they will give you a failure, you identify, then they take it away, just to show you what it looks like. Others they make you troubleshoot and fly/shoot an approach with. There is 1 or 2 NDB approaches, some raw data, and LPV approaches. If theres one or two areas that I'd say were stressed the most, it is the V1 cuts and nonprecision approaches (specifically single engine). Trying to climb out of a V1 cut with a stuck gear, stuck flaps, and a non-feathering propellor is a b**ch.

sandrich

Couldnt have said it better. One thing about the written. Look over the legend for the Jepp approach plates. Theres atleast 7 questions that ask about a specific approach, and some ask what/where things are on the actual plate. On my written, I'm pretty sure it was ILS or LOC/DME RW 32 at Buffalo, NY.