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Old 23rd April 2006 | 08:04
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westhawk
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Did I do OK for someone of my experience?
Superpilot:

Remarkably so! I think you held your own under the circumstances.

Particularily in view of the fact that you are 100 hour PPL holder, and that the apparent intent of the interview was to explore your suitability for sponsorship, you would not normally be expected to have received airline style CRM and SOP training at this level. I would tend to believe that your specific proposed actions in response to the hypothetical scenario given were not really the thrust of this interview. So I'll leave any critique of your specific responses to others.

Your overall attitude and your tendancy to apply a structured thinking process to problem solving were likely the focus of the conversation. This appears familiar to me as a rather often used type of "pressure interview" technique whereby it is the overall demeanor and poise of the interviewee which is being explored more closely than any specific knowledge. Were you more experienced, or a graduate of the program you seek to enter, your responses might be expected to be more in line with some of the answers given in the other posts on this thread. In any case, you were not grossly off the mark in the responses you gave. If you are selected, you'll likely be studying these type of scenarios in greater detail at some time in the future.

So good luck and please post any results you receive from the sponsoring
organization.

Best of success,

Westhawk
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