Greetings!! Horizon Interview 3/28/14

Flying Forester

Flying Forester

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Hi All!!

Long member of the good ranks at ProPilotWorld (I'm FLYMRY over there). I had asked about Horizon Air interview gouge and was sent here as evidently there are more QX folks here.

I've been flying a part 91 Citation XL/XLS+ in Florida for the past 6 years. My wife and I have some very complex goals (school, careers, home ownership, recreation, etc...) and plans that require us to be on the west cost (I grew up in Washington), and while it would be a pay cut, Horizon Air offers us the the perfect opportunity to take the first step in those goals.

Looking forward to getting to know the forum here and looking around.

If anyone has any interview gouge for Horizon (beyond what's found on WFFF) I would love to read it, just point me to that thread if there is one. I'll be browsing for it in the mean time.
 
If you want to, PM me your info and I'll forward it on to a couple of my buddies that have gone and/or are going to a Horizon interview. One is now doing IOE, another will interview on the 13th, and another who just transferred Horizon to Skywest. I'm thinking my buddy that interviews on the 13th will be your best bet for what to expect.
 
Look in the "interview experience" section. I think there was a recent horizon interview posted there.
 
atracnitrix said:
If you want to, PM me your info and I'll forward it on to a couple of my buddies that have gone and/or are going to a Horizon interview. One is now doing IOE, another will interview on the 13th, and another who just transferred Horizon to Skywest. I'm thinking my buddy that interviews on the 13th will be your best bet for what to expect.
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You know Tony?
 
I'm finishing up initial sims with QX right now. I can tell you that most of everything you'll find posted on WFFF, Aviationinterviews, and here, were all accurate for my interview in Jan. I've heard there has been changes with the sim portion recently - no sim with recent 121 time, and no arcing dive-and-drive non-precision approaches anymore if you do fly the sim. Other than that, pretty straight forward and relaxed. Look up every HR/TMAAT question you can find from QX on the sites I mentioned above and do some homework on the history of the company. I did that, and used those questions I found to prepare my inventory of stories, and I felt prepared. Actually, every question I was asked was straight from previous gouges.
 
I interviewed there Wednesday and studied the gouges from aviationinterviews.com. If you buy the one month membership then check out the study questions for QX on there. I was not asked one question that wasn't on there or the previous gouges.
I had a great experience and am pretty excited about the opportunity to fly on the west coast.
 
Gouges are spot on. I Just interviewed yesterday and the sim portion is basically:

-radios are all tuned and identified, you don't touch them.
-no prop, mixture or anything.
- you control throttle, yoke, gear and flaps. (and heading bug if you wish)
- you also talk to "ATC" but that's all you do

takeoff into IMC, follow vectors around as the sim person acts as ATC, eventually through the maneuvers you'll be told to intercept localizer and shoot the ILS with instructions for a missed (like when you do approaches VFR). No hold, no tracking, no DP, none of that.

The pitch is incredibly touchy like WOAH.

Speeds are given to you (with no power setting equivalent mind you) Vr = 90, climb 140, cruise 180, appch 120 (gear+50%flaps), gear/flap speed 150

Every single person involved in my interview process was nothing but extremely nice. It was an incredibly good vibe and very very very laid back. I didn't do so well on the technical (missed a few things like some notams and whanot I couldn't figure out what they meant) but if you just be confident, admit what you don't know and be personable, they will like it *assuming you're likable.
Everyone there was nice. people walking in to go do training, people actually conducting the training, front desk lady, fingerprint/peepeetest people, it is something I'm seriously having a hard time with personally because that operation is top notch. It's very very easy to see how people don't want to leave Horizon.

There's a class on april 21st, so if you're serious about going to horizon, I'd go ahead and plan for that already. Good luck!

PM me if you need any more info.
 
The Frasca sim they use at hillsboro aviation is very touchy. I would say that maybe a session prior to the interview may help out the chances. I am at TTD everyday so if you need someone to contact dispatch and schedule a time let me know and I will see what I can do. It is hard to get in the sim now and days due to the mass amount of Asian kids going through instrument training
 
tonyw said:
So, anyone wanna go flying off the coast of North Carolina on Thursday?

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Agreed. It is wild. You can go from 120kias to 180 just by a little pitch change. It takes a long time to materialize it seems
 
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