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[jackson's_joyflights]

Sucessfull day

Had the sim test and Interview in sydney yesterday. I was told by the boss that I had the job before I left to head back to the hotel. I have to finish my ATPLs and Degree before I start but QL will pay for ATPL classes. I'll lay down the day for those of you who are wondering.

615 Start. Met by sim instructor who is a very nice guy and given breifing about the sim ride. 747-300. The sim ride starts 10nm north of melbourne TRK 160. The aircraft is trimmed and fling at 180kts with EPR altready set. You fly along runway centreline until about half way and make right turn onto 250. After a few mins S&L you make a left turn onto 160 and climb to 6000ft at 180kts 1000pm and 1.3 EPR. After reaching 6000 you turn left onto 070 and fly to make intercept of 360 track to epping NDB. You overfly and re-intercept 330 outbound and then descend to 4000ft. You are then asked to slow to 160 kts and he starts vectoring you for a base leg for the ILS. On the base leg he asks you to slow to 140 Kts and make a pilot intercept. Once established and 1 dot low ask for gear and then on glideslope ask for flap 30. You have to fly the ILS at 120 and 650 fpm for it to work and if you stick to the numbers you will be able to get through it with no problems. Best advise for sim ride is to know the number in your sleep. If your doing good on the ILS you'll get to land it. Remember you're like 7 meters in the air on mains touchdown.

After the sim ride you have lunch and then do the paper work. The interview was with two peope and based on personal, operational, aircraft you fly and qantas link aircraft. Best advise is to have a good think about yourself and come up with some strenghts, weaknesses, conflict situations, times you lost credibility for making a mistake and how you resolved all of these situations. The want to hear you give them a situation, how you handeled it and what you learned in the process, if you ramble on they will just get pissed off. Know your aips back to front, particularly the IFR if you are rated. Know your own aircraft and know the numbers and differences for all of the Dash 8s. Be yourself, enjoy the sim ride. Good luck.