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I got this in a mailing today, It's been around before. Earlier on PF I mentioned the quality of the pilot candidates that were in my son's interview session a year ago and I also spoke of some of the washouts in his class. This is a pretty good article and is worth reading. Many of these interviewees are coming from the GA ranks.
I've said it before, your personal lives and those of your passengers depend on maintaining good academic knowledge and strong flight proficiency. It's no different in an airliner or in the cockpit of your single pilot IFR Cherokee flight making decisions about weather avoidance, marginal visibility conditions or experiencing a gusty crosswind landing at the limit. If you see yourselves here, take it as a friendly jab in your rib to get busy. I see many fine examples on FR's and I also see more than a few of the ones mentioned in the article that dont receive my signature in their logbooks. They go somewhere else for one.
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"Of those who do come to the interview, we are appalled at how many show up and can't pass a written test. Our interview test isn't that hard. It's straight out of the FAA commercial pilot written."
I'm amazed at how many people who want to be airline pilots struggle to interpret a TAF!
I mean if you want an airline job, wouldn't you at least review the rules on holding pattern speeds and what an ILS Critical Area sign looks like?
"Then we send them on to a basic instrument proficiency checkout in an Elite PCATD. Again, it's shocking how many people can't scan a basic six-pack. I actually interviewed one candidate who got so slow on an ILS that he stalled and went out of control. He probably would have gotten lost in the holding pattern, except he never got there because he turned the wrong way when I told him to go directly to the VOR. He couldn't read the HSI well enough to know whether he was TO or FROM."
"One of my instructors came to me one day in the middle of a lesson and he was extremely frustrated. He said he couldn't introduce any emergencies to the crew he was working with in the procedures trainer because they were struggling so hard just to navigate. And this was with the FMS fully functional!"
"It seems that there are a lot of students who think "close enough" is close enough."
http://www.avweb.com/blogs/insider/AVWe ... 957-1.html
I've said it before, your personal lives and those of your passengers depend on maintaining good academic knowledge and strong flight proficiency. It's no different in an airliner or in the cockpit of your single pilot IFR Cherokee flight making decisions about weather avoidance, marginal visibility conditions or experiencing a gusty crosswind landing at the limit. If you see yourselves here, take it as a friendly jab in your rib to get busy. I see many fine examples on FR's and I also see more than a few of the ones mentioned in the article that dont receive my signature in their logbooks. They go somewhere else for one.
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"Of those who do come to the interview, we are appalled at how many show up and can't pass a written test. Our interview test isn't that hard. It's straight out of the FAA commercial pilot written."
I'm amazed at how many people who want to be airline pilots struggle to interpret a TAF!
I mean if you want an airline job, wouldn't you at least review the rules on holding pattern speeds and what an ILS Critical Area sign looks like?
"Then we send them on to a basic instrument proficiency checkout in an Elite PCATD. Again, it's shocking how many people can't scan a basic six-pack. I actually interviewed one candidate who got so slow on an ILS that he stalled and went out of control. He probably would have gotten lost in the holding pattern, except he never got there because he turned the wrong way when I told him to go directly to the VOR. He couldn't read the HSI well enough to know whether he was TO or FROM."
"One of my instructors came to me one day in the middle of a lesson and he was extremely frustrated. He said he couldn't introduce any emergencies to the crew he was working with in the procedures trainer because they were struggling so hard just to navigate. And this was with the FMS fully functional!"
"It seems that there are a lot of students who think "close enough" is close enough."
http://www.avweb.com/blogs/insider/AVWe ... 957-1.html
