Arrived at Headquarters just before 7:30 A.M. Make sure you have all your requested paperwork with you! This is a sure way to get sent home early if you dont have it with you. Bring the original and at least one copy! Throughout the day you will have three portions. HR, Tech and the Sim. The HR was very straight forward. Know some basic Eagle history and just show them you want the job. Be yourself and be positive. Remember that they are looking to hire someone that a Captain can share the cockpit with over the course of several days and be able to get along with. Some of the questions were- what is your most successful achivement in life, What has been you biggest dissapointment, describe yourself in one word, why should eagle hire you. next i had the tech. A captain by the name of Brad gave the tech. Study low enroutes in detail, SID's, STAR's, approach plates and 121 crew flight limitations. How many hours in a week,month and year. how much rest in 24 hr period. The tech probably took about 30 minutes. Brad is ver laid back. He will also go over with you, your log book. If you have any mistakes or discrepencies go ahead a make notes on a post it note and place them in your book. that way brad will know before you meet him for the tech. you will turn in your logbooks first thing. The last phase is the sim. The interview class before mine and the day of mine both flew the Foker 100. You will depart LAX 24R and intercept the 265 radial from the Seal Beach VOR and track it to the station, remember to fly the reciprocal 085 to the station. this seems to be the standard each day. I was instructed to hold on the 350 radial-non standard turns. After i approached the brief correctly he did not make me hold. he will set you up for the ils 24r lax using the flight director to DA. next he will set you up just inside the FAF for a raw data "fly the needles" approach to a full stop. You will have two gauges to be concerned with. The attitude,altimeter and airspeed will be on one. and the HSI will be the second. Full glass cockpit. Bill will spend about an hour before you actually fly the sim to instruct you on what the sim ride wil consist of! Remember to use Bill- the non flying pilot as much as possible. gear up, flaps up, climb check list, climb thrust, etc. It will certainly reduce your workload. I had never been in a full motion sim before. I recommend if you get a chance to at least find a pcatd and configure it in the baron 58 and fly the lax 24r approach and practice hold as fast as you can in the baron. it helped me! hope this helps and good luck!

Have I got some news for you guys who have been prepping for the American Eagle interview using these gouges...the ATP exam is NO LONGER part of the interview process!! How dissapointed was I when I showed up with my group to learn the two days prior the test had been discontinued for the interview process!! If you don't believe me though, I would still call AE recruitment to verify this. Also, the medical portion has been drastically cut down--only a hearing test, fingerprints, and urine drug screening are performed. Okay, as for the interview experience at Eagle. If you want to fail the thing before you even get in the door, only bring part of the documents they ask for! People, they just want to see that you can follow directions! They asked for a driving record so BRING IT. They ask you to flag your checkrides in your logbook so DO IT! Please don't show up unprepared as this really isn't too difficult of an interview. Make sure you bring BOTH originals, AND COPIES!! As you've read in the previous accounts, you will DEFINITELY spend a lot of time waiting and sitting around so make sure you get a good night's sleep and feel well rested.

When I arrived, at the headquarters, my group was briefed by Sean Gross (very nice guy) and we watched a video on the airline. Sean will let you know exactly what will happen that day and will tell you everything to expect. He mentioned that, overall, they want to see that you are not only a knowledgable pilot, but you are also a guy/gal that is easy to get along with and friendly.

I first had my tech interview with Tim. Tim is an incredibly cheerful fellow and you'll see that it would be a pleasure to fly with him. Know how to read a TAF and METAR. Make sure you've got the remarks section of METARS down (SLP, AO2, etc.). What does T02820205 mean? You will be asked! Without a doubt, know when we have to file an alternate and what the alternate minimums are. He will give you a scenario where you have the METAR and an approach plate and you will have to know, based on the conditions, if you can shoot the approach or not. Also, take a good look at the little boxes of the plates the may tell you "DME required" or "Radar required". He may use this in his scenario. Know the Jepp plates well. Don't waste your time with a mom and pop airport approach plate. Look at Boston or LAX. Know where to find the approach and takeoff mins. I was also asked to look at a low enroute chart. Know the different symbols you would find along an airway: MEA, distances along entire airway or to the nest fix, MOCA. Know how to distinguish between an airport with an IAP and one without.

The HR interview is so well gouged here that I won't waste my time retyping it. The previous half dozen gouges have been spot on.

All I can say regarding the sim is that it is a WHOLE lotta fun!! VERY cool! If you know how to track an ILS, you will be fine. But please, make sure you remember to call out the checklists and tell Bill to set the speed and flaps when they need to be set. If you're thinking to yourself, "I've never flown a Fokker F100. I don't know when the f*%k to even do that!", don't worry. Bill will brief you before the sim and tell you at which points along the flight you need to ask for these things. He prepares you very well. However, you will be asked to hold so make sure that part of your prep for this interview includes alot of sitting down and giving yourself madeup holds with various types of entries.

I wish a had time to type more but I mainly just wanted to let you guys know about the new situation with the ATP exam. I spent alot of time studying for that darn thing and I guess it did me very little good :(
But please understand, that past few gouges have been VERY accurate so there's no need for me to retype all that stuff.

Applied via AirlineApps.com, got e-mail 3 days later, called them for an interview in about a week. Got a confirmed seat on American from LGA to DFW the day before the interview. Stayed at Baymont for $45. Shuttle left at 6:55am for the training center. Signed in, waited until 8:30 for one of the captains to show up. We saw a AE video, and the captain talked for about an hour about what to expect at the interview. He seemed nice. There is no more ATP written, or a big medical exam. We all waited for a long time to get called first. Talked a lot amongst ourselves. The room is arranged like a classroom, and some of us (not me) turned some chairs around so we can sit and see each other. One captain upon walking in immediately said to turn the chairs back where they were. The people complied. About an hour later, one person turned the chair around again, and the same captain told him sternly to put it back. Got called (finally, at 11:00) for the tech interview.

Where do you go missed on the ILS? (DA,H)

When takeoff alternate required?

What's the lowest takeoff mins here? (shows the Jepp plate)

What's the ILS mis here (Jepp plate)

What's controlling, ceiling or vis? (vis)

Shows/quezzes SID, STAR, METAR, TAF, real basic questions.

After that i got $5 coupon for the cafeteria, told to be back by 12:30 (it was 12 at the time) At 12:45 i got called for the HR interview, held by another captain. I later realized that that was the chair captain, but since i never touched the chair i wasn't worried. He filled out some paperwork while asking the HR questions previously described in the other gouges. Then he read my driving record ( i have a 99mph in a 55 ticket) and another one and a previous suspension. He asked me about that. I said that i was your and stupid at the time, kinda as a joke. My guess is that that's what did it. He finished the HR questions and filled out the paperwork, and sent me back into the room. About 10 minutes later he called me to take my stuff and follow me. That was it. Just like the apprentice - 'you are fired' went to the airport and took the next flight home. I was very bummed & disappointed. Good luck all.

The whole deal begins with an presentation/video of AE. It's real cool, and after watching that, I really wanted to get the position. They tell you at the beginning that the job is yours to have if you really want it -- you just have to prove to them that you want it bad enough that you were willing to prepare and get stuff in order. The whole thing is pretty much like gouged, except for a couple of new changes. Like NO MORE ATP WRITTEN. That was kind of nice, however I spent many many hours preparing for it for nothing. The medical has changed as well. Hearing test, pee test, and finger prints and you're out. The whole process is professionally run. The guys that were doing the interview were very straightforward, and very helpful. Everyone is friendly.
It is a little stressful though because you never know how you did. You know nothing. People mysteriously dissappear! One moment everyone was there, and the next, there were a bunch missing. Everytime the door opens, you wonder if something you said or did wasn't right and it's your time to go home. I was a little worried because of my low time, but thankfully it didn't disqualify me. Be sure your logbook is in order and looks neat. They will look at them.
Finally, at sometime in the afternoon, they take the remaining applicants to the sims. Just like everyone has said, the sim were awesome. It's exactly like gouged. Know your holding entries, be able to fly an approach (ILS), and know some basics on CRM, and it shouldn't be a problem.
The medical was easy and fun. The nurses were very entertaining, and made time go by quickly.
Study everything that has been gouged and you'll do fine.

Good luck!!

Well I will start off saying that all the prvious gouge is pretty good for a study guide. The long gouge about 4 previous to mine is the one I looked at the most. I stayed at the Baymont and it was not too bad of a hotel...could have been better but could have been worse. Has a TV with cable the room is clean and there is an iron to fix up your wrinkled clothes. Of course there is NO written test. Have your paperwork straight and organized. Have a copy of your previous employment information for all the prelim. paperwork. (Address, phone, fax, ect.) Keep a copy of the one you turn in for this information. There is the technical interview which consists of questions about approach plates 1) Brief approach. On the airport page 1) where is XYZ taxiway 2) RVR requirements. On the arrival to DFW 1) Brief arrival...pay attention to the direction of the wind on the brief. On the low altitude enroute 1) what is this airspace? What is the mileage from this VOR to that one? What is the radial that my pen is on relative to the VOR? That's it for the tech. interview. On the HR interview background questions and some general questions about why you want to work for Eagle, what will be the hardest thing about working for Eagle, what is one part of your character you would like to change or improve upon. OKAY...easy enough? There is a sim evaluation that is very fun. Don't sweat it too bad. If you can fly in instrument conditions you are golden. There is a lot of sitting for the interview. Maybe bring a snack. There is water and coffee in the holding room. When you make it to day 2 for the medical its pretty short. Drug screen, hearing test and fingerprints. All the staff if is a pleasure to deal with. All-in-all it was a good experience and I look forward to starting to work. Also, as you probably know you are able to pick your base. ORD and the NE get jets. DFW, SE & SW get SAAB. This is not in stone but that appears to be the way it is. Out of nine of us 7 made it to the end of the interview successfully. Great job guys hope to see you soon.