I know I'm going to get jumped on for this...

dbrault17 said:
So exactly how would you fill out that little time period in your life? Address as your license plate number? Give a few square mile box as the street or zip code? What would an interviewer think with a Coleman tent as a front door? Vagabond? Hippy? Bum? Tier 1 candidate?

I think after considering all the colorful personalities I've come across over the years in aviation that these questions are actually pretty serious ones.
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Just put where you were.

You guys way, way over complicate some questions like "complete address history"

Like: "Have you ever had a ticket?"

A lot of people say "no" because it's not on their record, but the answer is "Yes" and in the explanation section, something like "Expunged by attending traffic school"

You're human.

Now if you say "No", the next question to the screener is "Really? You've REALLY never had a ticket, are you being honest or you're assuming that since it was expunged, the Mulder and Scully aren't going to ferret that out of some obscure record"? :)
 
SpiceWeasel said:
The only correct answer in the thread is the one that says "put a complete address history from age 0 through today." It's a commercial organization, therefore if you don't follow directions they have no obligation to go further in the process with you.
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We had to do some serious digging to do this, incidentally - things were pretty dynamic when I was a wee lad.
 
Derg said:
Now if you say "No", the next question to the screener is "Really? You've REALLY never had a ticket, are you being honest or you're assuming that since it was expunged, the Mulder and Scully aren't going to ferret that out of some obscure record"? :)
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Yes, really.
 
SpiceWeasel said:
The only correct answer in the thread is the one that says "put a complete address history from age 0 through today." It's a commercial organization, therefore if you don't follow directions they have no obligation to go further in the process with you.
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Maybe I'm missing it somewhere but the directions say last 10 years. That's back to 2006. So why should you do it to age 0? That's, by your definition, not following directions.
 
B767 said:
Maybe I'm missing it somewhere but the directions say last 10 years. That's back to 2006. So why should you do it to age 0? That's, by your definition, not following directions.
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Because airlineapps wants 10 years. Delta wants "a complete address history."
 
All due respect to Derg, there is no Mulder and Scully doing Top Secret clearance backgrounds for the airlines. Contrary to belief there isn't a huge database that holds everything you did to get in trouble in kindergarten to today. Unless it is criminal, legal or credit related or you were dumb enough to put out on social media it isn't out there for someone to find.

I worked in IT for a good part of my career. I spent over two years living out of hotels. Good hotels but still hotels. My employer paid me to travel around the world and do installs and software configurations. When I was getting my top secret clearance upgraded I wondered about how to put down that I lived in a hotel. The investigator who was doing my background check told me not to worry about it and just put down what I had on my drivers license which went to a post office box. Clearance passed with no problems.

While I have never applied to an airline I doubt the airlines can do that level of background checks.
 
How many drivers licenses have you had? I'm 37 and still list my parents as my permanent address. I do a lot of work overseas, short term contracts in the US. Never knew half the time what the address of the place I was living. I paid cash. Not to scam anyone or hide anything, its because what makes the world go round. I've had 3 permanent addresses since I was born. Have lived in about 5 different countries and about 15 states. And with the 121, 135 jobs and unknown FBI background checks no one has ever axed me a single question. And I've told HR reps to their faces and every single one has always said in one way or another-Put whatever you've had a drivers license address. Because no federal government knew that I rented Aunt Bee's beach cottage the summer I worked in AK. Some people are paranoid. And beyond. Maybe I don't deserve my ATP because I lack good moral character.
 
Cut and pasted from the Airlineapps "Residential History" section:

*** Please enter a complete residential history for the past 10 years. ***

I just posted the question to the Delta Pilot Recruitment fb page. They're awesome at getting back with answers. When they respond, I will pass on what they say.

They must have some good people working on that fb page!
 
Ps: I've gone back and forth on this over the years, usually as a result of advice from pretty good sources. Why I just thought of asking them directly, I have no idea...
 
15 minutes later. Boom.

DPR says:

"The questions on airlineapps are written very carefully, and the most literal interpretation of them is the correct one. So if it specifically says 10 years, that is what I would go with.

We do need your work history to go all the way back though, perhaps that is what is causing people confusion."
 
Yup!

That page is literally a direct connection to the pilot recruitment office.

Yes, I used the word 'literally' correctly.
 
Derg said:
Yup!

That page is literally a direct connection to the pilot recruitment office.

Yes, I used the word 'literally' correctly.
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Some millenial's wet dream future job right there.

"I get to work for Delta, not have to fly or be gone from home, AND I GET TO BE ON FACEBOOK ALL DAY?!?!!!!!!!1!!!!!!1!!"
 
B767 said:
Some millenial's wet dream future job right there.

"I get to work for Delta, not have to fly or be gone from home, AND I GET TO BE ON FACEBOOK ALL DAY?!?!!!!!!!1!!!!!!1!!"
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An Airbus captain, a Mad dog captain and the Manager of Pilot Development.

I hear it's more like in between flights, on layovers, hotel shuttles, sitting around the house making declarative statements like "…that would be factually incorrect, here's the straight truth: "
 
Derg said:
An Airbus captain, a Mad dog captain and the Manager of Pilot Development.

I hear it's more like in between flights, on layovers, hotel shuttles, sitting around the house making declarative statements like "…that would be factually incorrect, here's the straight truth: "
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Just an attempt at humor. Figured it wasn't some college intern earning a semester's worth of credits. ;)
 
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