Originally Posted by
havick
They usually tell you what band you sit in. Ie how well you actually scored. If you are say band 4 but in the next 12 months a bunch more band 1, 2 or 3 applicants come in behind you, they will get called up from the hold pool for flight screening ahead of you.
The recruiter usually tells applicants what band they are while sitting in the hold pool waiting for a call to goto Flight screening.
If you’ve been waiting as long as you previously mentioned then perhaps you didn’t do as well as you thought, even though you met the minimum requirements for Flight screening.
Wow this is news to me, I've never heard of this band system. And I asked my recruiter how I was sitting in the pool and he said some weird percentile number which I can't remember. Is this band number determined by how well you do on the additional exams? Or is this band for your dossier i.e how you are sitting in the pool? It's entirely possible my dossier as a whole wasn't competitive.
EDIT: I just emailed my recruiter and he said this on band numbers: "The band scoring is no longer released to pilot candidates and this will be explained to you in further details when you attend the new aircrew selection process at East Sale." So looks like your information is outdated.