Eagle Interview

as previously posted, the interview is EXACTLY like the gouges. any questions, feel free to PM.
got a conditional letter of hire, not getting my hopes up until I have a class date!
 
...the interview is as previously posted. They even crack jokes about it! Nobody in my class got sent home in the first 10mins....SWEET!
Got the conditional letter of hire as well. Later on I'm gonna post a "study guide" with all the tech questions I found on-line. That's right on. Hope this helps, it helped me.
 
1. Tell me about yourself
2. Twin airplane you are familiar with (max t/o, ramp, landing weight, total and usable fuel, battery voltage)
3. Definition of V1, blue line (Vyse), Vmc, Critical Engine, V2
4. Is V1 always the same? What are some factors that are taken into account when calculating V1?
5. METAR/TAF (old vs. new format, Fog, BR, P0006, rwy17r/2200v2400, A02
6. Airport diagram (jepp) – KDFW ( Hotspots) front, back, RWY17L, East/West freqs
7. RVR requirements
8. T/O Alternates (when, how close?)
9. Alternate minimus (RWY18L for landing)
10. Jeppesen low altitude enroute
11. Speed limits in Class B, C, D
12. Cloud/Vis requirements for VFR flight
13. Grid MORA, MEA, MOCA, Fix using DME, restricted areas
14. Approach chart, ILS 17L KDFW
15. Walk through (finger fly?) RNAV Departure/Arrival for KDFW
15.1.Walk through limitations on speed/altitude
16. Alcohol
17. Landing distance after displaced threshold
18. Rwy length, available T/O distance
19. Displaced threshold, how it looks on the chart and in reality
20. Airport T/O mins
21. Alternate T/O mins
22. When do you need a second alternate? / Alternate requirements
23. RVR
24. MSA (type of altitude, dimensions of ring)
25. Departure Procedure, limitations, finger fly it
26. Arrival, limitations, jet coming inbound from the North
27. Part 91 Oxygen (Supplemental Oxygen requirements?)
28. Part 121 duty times
29. Part 121 rest periods
30. RVSM (FLs, what changes, equipment required)
31. Stating minimum fuel vs. declaring emergency
32. IFR Fuel requirements
33. What if you haven’t done your before T/O checklist and TWR clears you for T/O?
34. Maintenance write up not signed off. What do you do?
35. Distance of Victor airways
36. Class B, C, D, identify, speed limits, dimensions
37. SVFR
38. Shaded box around VOR (or other NAVAID)
39. Airport – Green vs. Blue
40. Isogonic lines
41. Elevation and longest rwy from the airport icon on the enroute chart
42. D-ATIS
43. MOA vs. Restricted
44. Define FAF and identify it
45. Approach Categories (ABCD. Speed based off of what, what does the altitude on the circling guarantee)
46. Brief approach + Turnout + Hotspots
47. VDP
48. What do you have to have insight in order to land from an instrument approach?
49. (looking at the App. Plate) what kind of hold entry would you expect to do if on the missed approach?
50. MDA vs. DA(H)
51. Departure procedure AKUNA 3
51.1.Rwy 18R altitude/speed restrictions
51.2.Lost comm.
51.3.8 minutes (note 11,000 MEA on the transition to MLC)
51.4.Final altitude in the FMS
52. Arrival WILBUR 3
52.1.Jet landing south
52.2.Point out any notes
53. What the mins need to be if we wanted the ILS rwy 18R/L approach?
54. RVR controllable
55. Intersection T/O box
56. Alternate mins
57. Beacon
58. Can we shoot this approach with the given METAR? (RVR Governs)
59. What if WX goes below mins inside the FAF?
60. Open maintenance write up. Can we go?
61. Accelerate-Stop distance
62. Identify all airspace on Enroute Chart
63. Icing, T-Storm formation, Virga
64. MEA Gap, Segment obstruction clearance
65. What is meant by the term “ADEQUATE VISUAL REFERENCE”?
66. If you are taking off and RVR is reported to be XXXX can you go? Determine what RVR is, then flip the page to T/O mins
67. Descend from 29,000 feet down to 11.000. Forgot to set QNH. How much off altitude?

DISCLAIMER: I found all these Qs mainly on www.willflyforfood.com, just by reading from the very 1st post, to the very last one, being a little OCD, I put them all together in one place so that I wouldn't have to go back and forth, in and out different web pages. Notice that I didn't post answers. Look them up!
LIVE BY THE GOUGE, DIE BY THE GOUGE.

Good luck
 
I posted this the other day in the "Jobs Available > American Eagle Hiring" thread, but it's more at home here. (Moderators, feel free to delete the duplicate posting)

Received the "pre-offer of employment" letter. Looks like I may need to change my signature soon. =)

4 of 7 interviewees were offered the job. The gouges here are up-to-date and right on: http://www.willflyforfood.com/pilot-...can-Eagle.html I printed out a stack and read through them, looking up anything I wasn't sure of.

I bought 1.5 hours in a Baron sim with a furloughed American pilot in the right seat (who used to be on their pilot hiring board) and this helped me out tremendously. Here is the company's website: http://www.simcheckinternational.com/ for those who live close enough to Sacramento.

Something which helped me gain a lot of confidence for the tech portion of the interview was reading through (more like scanning through) Jeppesen's Chart Clinic, a series of 30 in-depth articles which were published in AOPA magazine a few years back: http://www.jeppesen.com/personal-sol...art-clinic.jsp Click on the "Chart Clinic Reprints" tab.

As all the gouges say, make sure your airlineapps.com information is ACCURATE and there are no surprises when they do the background/employment verification or look through your log books. I'm at 2370TT, 155 multi, 1200ish turbine, 75 in the past 6 mo, current 135 job, CFII&MEI, 2 years of college. As far as the other guys hired- 1 was a Guard KC-135 pilot, another was a Comair CRJ FO about to be furloughed, and the other was a CFI. Like I said in a previous post, I don't think I would have received the invitation to interview without the face time I had with AE recruiters at ACE '10.

Hope this helps somebody!
 
I have ZERO glass time and I ended buying some time as well in a sim. It doesn't matter what kind it is...I used a redbird fxm (something like that) full motion, G1000 w/ FD. I think the key here is "G1000 w/ FD". My sim was a C172RG. I flew about 3hrs w/ my old Chief CFI and that was plenty. Practice a random profile (I used the T/O KMEM rwy 9, climb out, random hold, rv to ILS rwy 18R) so that you can get familiar w/ everything. 3hrs for me were enough, and the day of there were no surprises. The only surprise was a different profile...but that's out of your control! lol

I also ended up using an aviation consulting firm to prepare me for the TECH portion. Worth or not it's not the point. I really wanted this job and I didn't mind spending the money. They person I dealt with was very knowledgeable and just an AWESOME person that wants you to get the job. I spent ALL day in front of the computer the skeduled day of the review.
Highly recommended.
Clark Aviation Consulting
www.flytheline.com

hope this helps make an educated decision.

Happy Thanksgiving to ya'll and good luck
 
Sea King said:
...the interview is as previously posted. They even crack jokes about it! Nobody in my class got sent home in the first 10mins....SWEET!
Got the conditional letter of hire as well. Later on I'm gonna post a "study guide" with all the tech questions I found on-line. That's right on. Hope this helps, it helped me.
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Congrats! .... and welcome to the suck. :D The way we're about to start turning over people, we're going to need new FOs pronto. Glad to have you aboard.
 
Please make sure everything is in order everyone, and that everything is disclosed.

I now know of three people that have recently had their pre-offer of employment RESENDED prior to their medical.

Of course they were not given a reason, but it happened between the interview and the end of their background checks, so if you have skeletons in the closet be sure to be up front. Jut because you get the pre offer doesn't always mean you have it made.

Good luck to everyone, it is a great company.
 
X-Forces said:
Please make sure everything is in order everyone, and that everything is disclosed.

I now know of three people that have recently had their pre-offer of employment RESENDED prior to their medical.

Of course they were not given a reason, but it happened between the interview and the end of their background checks, so if you have skeletons in the closet be sure to be up front. Jut because you get the pre offer doesn't always mean you have it made.

Good luck to everyone, it is a great company.
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Just for me being curious... I'm going up to the review board Friday or at least I think I am... If you didn't hide anything during your interview or have any skeletons in the closet, is the review board anything to be worried about?
 
fly6785 said:
Just for me being curious... I'm going up to the review board Friday or at least I think I am... If you didn't hide anything during your interview or have any skeletons in the closet, is the review board anything to be worried about?
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When I interviewed, granted this was back in Aug, I asked about the "Captain's Review" after getting selected at the end of the process.

I was told, in so many words, that there really was no Captain's Review board per se, just a final review of all documentation. I think the Captain's Review Board has gone the way of the dodo bird, as it is all captains that conduct each part of the interview (this was not always the case)

As for your question, I never felt a bit concerned during the period between receiving the pre-offer and getting the call for a medical. I had nothing to hide, and I was up front about everything. I was up front about everything from the time I filled out the application, so there was total consistency. I had two busts, no big deal. I took an early honorable discharge (if you can call 8 years early) because of a family hardship, no problem. No violations, no traffic infractions, had all my driving records, college transcripts, etc.

I felt that it went smooth as silk. Now saying that I'm sure my buddies that got their offer rescinded felt like everything was fine as well, so who knows. They tell me that they have no idea what could have caused them to be rejected. I also know that unless it is something that is actually happening to you, you can never count on getting the whole story, so I take it with a grain of salt.

I would be willing to bet that you have nothing to worry about.

Good luck!
 
Does anybody know how much time usually elapses between the "pre-offer of employment" letter at the end the interview and the call to sked the medical?
 
Got a call today saying that I made thru the final review board...will call monday to sked the medical!

cheers, this news definitely made my day!

good luck
 
Sea King said:
Got a call today saying that I made thru the final review board...will call monday to sked the medical!

cheers, this news definitely made my day!

good luck
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I interviewed on the 12th... Of October!!! I've been told twice that my paperwork was going to the review board the following Friday (today included) and still haven't received a call... I don't know what's going on...
 
As I am preparing for the Egale interview. I was wondering while studing is the interview different and how for former 121 drivers? Any advice/help very much appricated.
 
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