Recent Transpac Interviewees?

Will be interviewing there soon and would like to hear from anyone that has gone through the process. Thanks.

I was recently hired there, so here's a write up for anyone that is interested in the job. All of the information is current as of a few months ago, but it may have changed.

Pre interview
- Have to have the CFI and CFII to be hired (last I heard).
- Send resume and fill out an app through their website.
- They will call and ask a couple of questions (work history, any DUI convictions, etc.)
- The will send a pre interview quiz that is Instrument heavy and not something you can breeze through. Take your time and use your resources.
- They will call you to go over the quiz and offer you an interview date.

Interview
- Basic questions. Get to know you, HR, and the like. Pretty standard stuff.
- Teach a ground lesson. I taught S-turns, but they may give you any maneuver to teach. Presentation should be about 10 minutes.
- Fly the sim. I had an ILS approach to PRC in the Seminole. It was very straight forward, no emergencies, no surprises.
- They will call you and let you know if/when you will start. They usually run classes once per month.

Training
- Usually half days the first week. You get paid full salary. Learn about Transpac maintenance, dispatch, safety, HR, SOP's, and flying in the Phoenix area.
- Private Stanz is 3 or 4 flights, then a check flight. Instrument is the same. This is week 2 and 3. Once you are Private Pilot qualified you will start picking up flights with students, so your days are fuller.

The Job
- 30K/year + bonuses and benefits. Room to grow here. FAA program instructor, Stage Check pilot, Team Manager/Leader all pay more and people seem to move into these positions after a year or two.
- You will most likely be teaching Chinese students, some are good at English, some aren't. Some will study and come prepared, some won't. The students are a challenge and fun to work with for the most part.
- You will have either Friday/Saturday off or Sunday/Monday off. Work days are about 8-10 hours with a guaranteed rest of 10 hours.
- Expect to get at least 20 hours of flying each week. Some more, some less. I don't have the skinny on Multi time, as I am still working on becoming qualified.
- It's a fun group of people to work with and I love going to work everyday.

Did I miss anything? Feel free to post/PM questions.

Does TransPac have a well-developed TCO for training, with good structure and lesson progression? How is the schedule done-- is it a bidding system?
Do you normally get your days off or are you "encouraged" to work on your days off?

Great info! Thanks a lot for posting!!!!

Great writeup. Just got my II and I'm thinking of applying there. Sending you a PM

I am staying with family in Mesa while wrapping up some training. Not sure if I will be staying. Will depend on whether job opportunities are better than back east.

You will always get your days off. There are mx flights available if you want the extra flying, but you will never be pressured to take any extra flying. The TCO is my first 141 experience, but I think it's working out nicely.

You know your schedule the day before by around 5PM. Your class manager bids for your student's lessons (in order) and scheduling then takes care of everything. You get two consecutive days off, either fri/sat or sun/mon.

I used to work there, I left to join the airlines.
I have to admit, they are by far the best company I have ever worked for, especially when you compare it to the crappy flight instructing job I came from (whom I won't say who they are because they're sponsoring this site).

The pay, the benefits, the scheduling, the MX, ect ect... they are wonderful. They're not perfect, but they are about as close as it comes.

Just heads up fro those who work/intend to work for them:
-Bonuses are 50% biased on your team lead, so play the game well and make sure they really like you.
-Quadruple check your missions before you fly, because they will hang you if you do any out of order
-Know the SOP, they're trying to make airline pilots, and even though some methods are opposite what they do in the airlines, that's not your job to point out the distinction.
-Max out the 401k
-The hotel with the food and drink voucher they give you for the interview............ Drink scotch.

Anyways, good luck for all who apply. Moving to PHX was the best decision I made in my life, and leaving was the hardest.

Agreed on most everything. A Few things though, the team lead opinion is now 25%, and has to be quantitative . Mission errors are not a hangin' offense, if you're thorough it won't happen but sometimes it does and you can change it after the fact (may get chewed out, just a teensy bit though). 401k can be set at any percentage, company matches 3% after 3 years. No food + drink voucher anymore

Wow making me feel old.... haha.
They reduced the 401k? Shame

The clarity about the bonus system is about the only gripe I have. I'm still pretty unclear how it works exactly and I've asked numerous people about it. I'm just working hard and hoping it pays off. I'll be using the bonus money on my MEI, so I'm not all that worried about it. I just wish it was more transparent is all.

IP bonus is based off of 1)student's times and days ahead of schedule, 2)a monthly test we all take, 3) student stage check pass rate(not check ride).
4) Team leader input

Each part counts as 25% and you are compared to the rest of the instructors for your placement. top 10% of IP's get a certain bonus, subsequent 20% get a certain bonus, and so on until you the bottom of list for little or no bonus.

My situation up here is gotten kind of dreary. I may be headed off to find a job down there. Do they have openings regularly? (I see they have one now on their site) I've been away from 141 instructing skills for awhile and have to admit from teaching 61 on the side for 4 years now has killed my knowledge. Is the teaching part of the interview very difficult?

Also, I was checked out in a 172SP a few years ago, would there still be any record of that now?

How multi do their instructors average a month

No just review whatever lesson they want you to teach, it will usually be a ground reference maneuver. They may dig into the aerodynamics a bit though so brush up on that as well. Why are you mentioning the 172 checkout exactly?

You will be assigned a group of students to take through a few weeks after stanz. The students go from PPL to commercial, it takes around 8 months and you don't see multi time until the end. You are lucky if you start out with IR students but that's rare. Most likely you will have to go the whole 9 yards to see multi time.

I wanted to see who the instructor I went with was because I didn't have my log book for him to sign at the time. Great guy, after the flight him and another girl showed me around and took me to the owners office and I talked to him for about 15 minutes.

Well it may be worth mentioning, but there haven't been 172's for some time and the instructor flow through is fairly steady so those two IP's may not be around any more.

ok so in that 8 months what kind of multi time would you be looking at?