Anyone interviewing SKW on the 16th?
03-14-2007, 08:33 PM
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Thanks. I've already contacted American Aviation and they said I couldn't do the sim it won't be available but I might swing by and see if I can watch. However I don't land there till after 4pm so no telling how long they will be doing it for. I'm not expecting to make it Friday and systems will be the reason why. I know some but not all of them. there are pages and pages of electrical and I just don't have them down.
Just don’t give some bogus info like your mom is in the hospital; they will see right through that and tag you as a no/go.
03-14-2007, 08:49 PM
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Thanks. I've already contacted American Aviation and they said I couldn't do the sim it won't be available but I might swing by and see if I can watch. However I don't land there till after 4pm so no telling how long they will be doing it for. I'm not expecting to make it Friday and systems will be the reason why. I know some but not all of them. there are pages and pages of electrical and I just don't have them down.
Yeah, ask SKW for a later interview date...tell them you need more time to prepare they won't have a problem with that.
03-15-2007, 11:04 AM
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03-15-2007, 12:15 PM
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I agree about personality. Skywest is looking for people that they could see spending 8 hours in a cockpit with and not want to kill them by the end of the day. Do the sim prep at American Aviation, it's pricey but well worth it. They will brief you pretty much exactly how Skywest will want you to fly it, using the same approaches. Technical part: answer the questions as best you can, and don't pull answers out of your a$$ if you don't know. Just be honest and tell them, it's no big deal. Good luck, we need pilots badly! For the month of April, they have 205 targeted lines in SLC for 195 pilots (CRJ FO). No reserve lines. That is a bad thing as everyone is going to have to fly extra to pick up the slack.
We do need pilots, but here’s the math:
10 crew per a/c x 269 a/c = 2690 pilots plus an extra 10% to make up for FMLA, Instructors, Check Airmen and other; equals another 269 pilots.
2690 + 269 = 2959 pilots needed. We currently have 2585 (as of Mar 15) – 2959 needed = 374 short. If you also look at an attrition rate of about 20 per month for the remainder of the year, if SKW goal of being at proper staffing levels by the end of the year, means:
20 pilots (Attrition) x 9 more months in 07 = 180 in attrition + 374 short = 554 more pilots targeted to be hired by the end of 07.
03-15-2007, 12:47 PM
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Sorry but your numbers don't add up. Currently there're 310 pilots in SLC with 279 lines created last month. Even if you take away the suspended pilots, there’s no way only 195 are bidding. Also to go from 279 lines, not counting composite lines, to 205 is impossible without a reduction in flying. And we all know that hasn’t happened.
We do need pilots, but here’s the math:
10 crew per a/c x 269 a/c = 2690 pilots plus an extra 10% to make up for FMLA, Instructors, Check Airmen and other; equals another 269 pilots.
2690 + 269 = 2959 pilots needed. We currently have 2585 (as of Mar 15) – 2959 needed = 374 short. If you also look at an attrition rate of about 20 per month for the remainder of the year, if SKW goal of being at proper staffing levels by the end of the year, means:
20 pilots (Attrition) x 9 more months in 07 = 180 in attrition + 374 short = 554 more pilots targeted to be hired by the end of 07.
We do need pilots, but here’s the math:
10 crew per a/c x 269 a/c = 2690 pilots plus an extra 10% to make up for FMLA, Instructors, Check Airmen and other; equals another 269 pilots.
2690 + 269 = 2959 pilots needed. We currently have 2585 (as of Mar 15) – 2959 needed = 374 short. If you also look at an attrition rate of about 20 per month for the remainder of the year, if SKW goal of being at proper staffing levels by the end of the year, means:
20 pilots (Attrition) x 9 more months in 07 = 180 in attrition + 374 short = 554 more pilots targeted to be hired by the end of 07.
Also, on the crew info page, it indicates that the SLC CRJ FO side will be a category D as far as PBS is concerned, meaning it will assign the highest average credit to bidding line-holders (90-94 hours credit for an average line composition). The only other base this bid period so high is MKW. With such a high average credit value, I have a bad feeling that alot of junior lineholders are going to get screwd in their lines. You will probably see 6 day work blocks, forced flying everywhere, and lines that are in the 100-110 hour range, with no junior man pay. Alot of people are going to be timing out by the end of the year......
03-15-2007, 12:56 PM
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You are correct, I mis-typed, it was 295 pilots for 305 anticipated lines. This was right off of the PBS homepage, so this part is true. There will be, of course, a bunch of new hires thrown into the mix sometime after the bid-award as IOE is completed. I just wonder how PBS will take the current shortage into account, hopefully it will recognize that more new-hires will become available during the month and not force flying onto everyone.
Also, on the crew info page, it indicates that the SLC CRJ FO side will be a category D as far as PBS is concerned, meaning it will assign the highest average credit to bidding line-holders (90-94 hours credit for an average line composition). The only other base this bid period so high is MKW. With such a high average credit value, I have a bad feeling that alot of junior lineholders are going to get screwd in their lines. You will probably see 6 day work blocks, forced flying everywhere, and lines that are in the 100-110 hour range, with no junior man pay. Alot of people are going to be timing out by the end of the year......
Also, on the crew info page, it indicates that the SLC CRJ FO side will be a category D as far as PBS is concerned, meaning it will assign the highest average credit to bidding line-holders (90-94 hours credit for an average line composition). The only other base this bid period so high is MKW. With such a high average credit value, I have a bad feeling that alot of junior lineholders are going to get screwd in their lines. You will probably see 6 day work blocks, forced flying everywhere, and lines that are in the 100-110 hour range, with no junior man pay. Alot of people are going to be timing out by the end of the year......
03-15-2007, 02:55 PM
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Also, on the crew info page, it indicates that the SLC CRJ FO side will be a category D as far as PBS is concerned, meaning it will assign the highest average credit to bidding line-holders (90-94 hours credit for an average line composition). The only other base this bid period so high is MKW. With such a high average credit value, I have a bad feeling that alot of junior lineholders are going to get screwd in their lines. You will probably see 6 day work blocks, forced flying everywhere, and lines that are in the 100-110 hour range, with no junior man pay. Alot of people are going to be timing out by the end of the year......
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