50 question gleim. Pretty simple stuff. Microbursts, and regs predominantly. 2 pages of the typical interview questions already talked about. 2 pages of the situational questions also already talked about before. The only thing I found to be different than others experience is the attitude of the interviewer. He was just a first officer for new mexico airlines. He was very nice, and enthusiastic to be interviewing me. He talked about himself and his experience and was very receptive to questions. All in all a good experience and a fun interview. Hope it works out!
Date Interviewed: January 2011
Summary of Qualifications:
300TT, comm. single, inst. rating.
Were you offered the job?
Yes
Pilot Interview Profile:
no need to update the gouge nothing has changed. the kicker is the psyche evaluation you take after the interview...that carries more weight than anything. learn what the underlying meaning to those questions are. the plan a decent quest. is 11,5 down to 4,5 500fpm at 180kts. answer is 42 miles out. good luck!
Date Interviewed: December 2010
Summary of Qualifications:
Fixed wing
Were you offered the job?
No
Pilot Interview Profile:
Some what depressing circumstance. They have a email only policy regarding first contact. In my opinion they are a moderately high risk airline, as they wont provide any 'instrument training', and expect you to go there current on instruments. The quality of the personnel, especially those recruiting is low. A response one of the hiring managers gave me was "Yea good luck with that. You obviously can’t read very well.", in response to my question about their $8000 training contract. It's at that point I decided their bad attitude wasn't worth my time, money, or effort.
Apparently the contract is written specifically to keep them from being liable for your leaving early.
$1300.00/mth to start; after 90 days, $1500.00/mth; after 1 year $1700.00/mth and raises every year thereafter.
What is the work schedule? 5 days on, 2 days off. Workdays are 6-14 hours long (can change) depending on the daily schedule. You will fly from 6-12+ legs per day. We a 24 hour, 365 day a year operation and scheduling can be at anytime during day/night. We do currently have day and night shifts.
How many hours of flight time will I get? 50-100 hours of flight per month.
What is the pro-rated training contract? This is an $8,000.00 training contract with the airline. The contract is 12 months in length. Should you leave employment (voluntary or involuntary) prior to the end of the 12-month period, you will be required to pay the balance of the contract. The balance due on the contact will decrease by 1/12th every 30 days of employment following the date you pass your check ride with Pacific Wings LLC.
Date Interviewed: November 2010
Summary of Qualifications:
turbine time, furloughed 121
Were you offered the job?
No
Pilot Interview Profile:
Gouges are not very accurate on questions they ask you off the Gleim, there was very little weather and it was mostly IFR regs and approach/dept/arrival questions. There were also a couple of questions which did not apply to flying a Cessna Caravan but were in there anyways. Personal interview with easy no trick get to know you questions that you can answer with no prep. They had kind of a checklist of questions and they went down them one by one. That's it.
Interview is in ABQ, you go on your own dime and they don't really care much about the fact that you're paying to get there. Honestly this wasn't my best interview in general because I was rusty on everything, but I had all the qualifications and then some plus I had a good vibe walking out but was still turned down. There's a 8000 dollar training contract which you have to sign whether you quit or get fired, which is really unheard of in the industry. They neglected to mention this during the interview which I though was very odd. I didn't ask so they didn't mention, I guess....
Date Interviewed: May 2009
Summary of Qualifications:
1400 TT 140 ME 650 XC 235 Night 1000 DUAL CFI CFII MEI
Were you offered the job?
Don't Know
Pilot Interview Profile:
Interview was held in ABQ. very relaxed. started off with a 45 question test right off gleim IFR. no flight plaining or vor orientation. HR questions. why choose airline industry, 5 year goals, strengths, why PW or NWA, least fav and most fav class in college, then on to tech portion, IFR alternates, your 12500 need to decsend to 4500 when would you start the descent. capt wants to descend below minimums what do you do? answ-say something if not call twr report missed. then on to info about the company and any last questions. no sim ride. overall wasnt to impressed.
