Originally Posted by FBOZH
Another one I mentioned during my interview is a captain forgetting to lower the landing gear during a short approach(visual). I spotted it as we started the checklist turning final. Once again, I am not sure if it can make a positive impact on interviewers(I saved the day) or a negative one(I work for a bad company).
You're right there, I would be careful bringing that up in an interview. You showed the 'right stuff' by catching the error, or at least by not forgetting the Landing Checklist which is there to catch these errors, BUT why was the gear not put down before? It is a whole CRM breakdown story that you are getting into there, in which you played your part.
If you are going to go into something like that ensure you analyze the reasons why you got into such a situation and tell them
what you learnt from the experience. Don't just leave it at the 'I saved the day' stage!
Non of us are perfect and errors occur all the time. A decent airline would appreciate your frank, honest telling of the story and admission that an error occured. They will appreciate even more hearing how you didn't just accept it, you went away, used the principles of CRM that you have been taught and found the error chain links and then DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT to minimise the chance of it occuring again when you are on the flight deck.
PP