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Cottonmouth · September 29th, 2007, 20:11

yep, that was me.

cfii2007 pretty much summed up what happened. There was no yelling or anything like that described in the Sept. 19th one. They will try and get you to second guess yourself and make things somewhat confrontational. I had three people giving me the interview. One behind an office desk, and the other two were seated like someone would normally sit if dealing with the person behind the desk. I was squeezed in on the side sitting at one end.

Mine started out with John asking me what a Gant Chart is? It has nothing to do with aviation, I had no idea but when he descirbed it I knew what he was talking about only under a different name. It's a chart that would be used to say, build a house. It lists in order what needs to be done, etc. and if something doesn't get done it will hold up the progress (electrical/plumbing done before drywall). Anyways....

I got the standard read a TAF, 3 ways to define Becca, etc. I don't think I got all three out before they changed the subject or divereted my attention to something else. When I said it could be indentified by the marker beacons, they asked me the color for the OM and one of them said you sure it's not amber colored ...they went on to ask then what's the white colored one? They kept at it long enough to make you second guess yourself, but just stay the course and they'll eventually give up. I got asked about the GS elevation at Becca. They asked me what would happen if my Alt. was reading 1800' while over Becca, and I continued to fly it down to DH. I said I'd already be on the ground .... one of them said, "no you'd be dead."

I finger flew the LongBeach approach fine. They said I must have read gouge from somewhere online, which sort of suprised me since it's not a hard approach to fly.

Some parts of the interview were a little odd and I think they could do it in a better manner but that's just me.

It ended with them telling me that to make my flight back to PIT more relaxed that I was hired into a pool for their next available class date, which is supposed to be November but they weren't exactly sure.

September 29th, 2007, 20:11	#117
Cottonmouth Newbie Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 25	Re: Scenic yep, that was me. cfii2007 pretty much summed up what happened. There was no yelling or anything like that described in the Sept. 19th one. They will try and get you to second guess yourself and make things somewhat confrontational. I had three people giving me the interview. One behind an office desk, and the other two were seated like someone would normally sit if dealing with the person behind the desk. I was squeezed in on the side sitting at one end. Mine started out with John asking me what a Gant Chart is? It has nothing to do with aviation, I had no idea but when he descirbed it I knew what he was talking about only under a different name. It's a chart that would be used to say, build a house. It lists in order what needs to be done, etc. and if something doesn't get done it will hold up the progress (electrical/plumbing done before drywall). Anyways.... I got the standard read a TAF, 3 ways to define Becca, etc. I don't think I got all three out before they changed the subject or divereted my attention to something else. When I said it could be indentified by the marker beacons, they asked me the color for the OM and one of them said you sure it's not amber colored ...they went on to ask then what's the white colored one? They kept at it long enough to make you second guess yourself, but just stay the course and they'll eventually give up. I got asked about the GS elevation at Becca. They asked me what would happen if my Alt. was reading 1800' while over Becca, and I continued to fly it down to DH. I said I'd already be on the ground .... one of them said, "no you'd be dead." I finger flew the LongBeach approach fine. They said I must have read gouge from somewhere online, which sort of suprised me since it's not a hard approach to fly. Some parts of the interview were a little odd and I think they could do it in a better manner but that's just me. It ended with them telling me that to make my flight back to PIT more relaxed that I was hired into a pool for their next available class date, which is supposed to be November but they weren't exactly sure.