Hello fellow aviators!
I recently had a phone conversation with a former student pilot of mine, who told me about an exchange he had during a checkride with a DPE regarding a pilot hired at a major LLC airline in the US.
While this is not a first hand story, it does raise some questions about employment and interviews, I wonder what you all think.
A pilot is interviewing for a job at an airline is denied work and reported to the FAA due to a requirement not being fulfilled towards his/her commercial certificate. The requirement in question was the long XC (250nm straight line).The pilot lost all his CPL, CFI, CFII, MEI certificates (revoked). Here are my quesions:
1) Who’s responsibility was it to ensure the student pilot (before the commercial ride) was eligible to take the checkride? Student, CFI, DPE, 141 school?
2) I know airlines look for ATP minimums and checkride failures on the logbook review, but so they go into every rating and verify all the hours? Seems like a lot of work. (My personal somewhat uneducated guess is that something must have triggered that review, a past incident with the airline etc….)
3) With a revoked license stain on his record, what are the chances of the pilot being hired to fly professionally at an airline again? Are all revocations treated equally by the airlines, or would recruiters be open to hear specifics of a revocation such as the one above?
4) Have you ever heard this story, or similar ones?
Thanks for chiming in. As a CFI who’s working on my ATP minimums I am intrigued by this story, and wanted to dive a bit deeper into this question, and also be able to answer similar questions if those were ever presented to me.
Fly safely!
I recently had a phone conversation with a former student pilot of mine, who told me about an exchange he had during a checkride with a DPE regarding a pilot hired at a major LLC airline in the US.
While this is not a first hand story, it does raise some questions about employment and interviews, I wonder what you all think.
A pilot is interviewing for a job at an airline is denied work and reported to the FAA due to a requirement not being fulfilled towards his/her commercial certificate. The requirement in question was the long XC (250nm straight line).The pilot lost all his CPL, CFI, CFII, MEI certificates (revoked). Here are my quesions:
1) Who’s responsibility was it to ensure the student pilot (before the commercial ride) was eligible to take the checkride? Student, CFI, DPE, 141 school?
2) I know airlines look for ATP minimums and checkride failures on the logbook review, but so they go into every rating and verify all the hours? Seems like a lot of work. (My personal somewhat uneducated guess is that something must have triggered that review, a past incident with the airline etc….)
3) With a revoked license stain on his record, what are the chances of the pilot being hired to fly professionally at an airline again? Are all revocations treated equally by the airlines, or would recruiters be open to hear specifics of a revocation such as the one above?
4) Have you ever heard this story, or similar ones?
Thanks for chiming in. As a CFI who’s working on my ATP minimums I am intrigued by this story, and wanted to dive a bit deeper into this question, and also be able to answer similar questions if those were ever presented to me.
Fly safely!
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