For those of you with an interview A colleague and I were lucky enough to get the call for interview. These are our experienes:
Most of the information about the simulator profile is pretty accurate. Somebody did ask about the speedbug settings for landing; 2 bugs on VREF, 1 bug on 170KIAS, 1 bug on 210KIAS and the final bug on 250KIAS. Hope that helps.
For the 15 question written quiz there were a number of questions about safety equipment; where the megaphones are kept in the cabin and something about life preservers and whistles. There was a question about the location of the core of a jetstream and some strange American centred questions about IFR delays and terminology involved.
The interview itself was with a panel of 5, three training captains and 2 men from HR. The usual 'why ANA?', 'what do your family think about it?' all asked in a very polite and gentle way with lots of writing by the interviewers. The technical questions we were asked included: the 3 requirements to continue an NPA, when to abandon a TO and questions about being go-minded, runway lighting distances and adjustments to landing minima, runway illusions, your role as an FO, hydroplaning and preparing for a flight into icing.
Hope that helps with the preparation. The sim session itself is outstanding and the 767 is wonderful to fly. They give you a full hour and a half with an auto-coupled ILS and a visual approach to practice before you do the assessment. One point not mentioned in the documentation is that they like you to wait until the flaps are set before calling for checklists. The SOP calls for starting timing on the visual is 'time in' and for completion of the leg is 'time up'. In order to keep within the required 2 miles of the runway on the visual set PROG page 2, you will be on a closing track, when the XTK gets to 3nm start the turn onto downwind and you will be nicely set up. On the VOR approach they want you to wait until there is a half scale deflection on the VOR needle before calling for LNAV. They also want you to do an old fashioned dive and drive NPA. So when established on the inbound course descend to 460 feet using VS 1000fpm reducing to 300fpm for the last couple of hundred feet.
Most of all try to enjoy the experience, its not often you get the opportunity to pole a widebody jet around the circuit!!!
Last edited by Hobbit; 13th February 2009 at 15:39.