Artificial Horizon
23rd Mar 2008, 12:59
I have had a few PM's asking about the planning exercise with Jetstar so here goes:
They give you a route that you are rostered to fly A - B - A - C with flight times a schedule and basic perfomance figures that allow you to work out fuel. Of course on departure you have a tech fault that doesn't effect timings but does increase fuel burn putting your first destination just out of reach. On the first landing you have to get the fault fixed which increases your turnaround time to two hours from one hour. Your job is to replan the day with the goal of sticking as close to the original schedule as possible. The kicker comes when you see the notam sheet for all of the available airports. Things like restricted fuel supplies, no maintenance, runways shut at certain times and of course crew FDP's. You are required to write out 3 different options before selecting the one scenario you want to proceed with after which you have to fill out a detailed flight log with fuel uplifts and burns and adjustments to the schedule. Time is the major issue, I though that I had it cracked and had come up with a scenario that would only lose a couple of hours on the original schedule, then as I was filling in the flight log with about 10 minutes to go realised that my crew would be about 20 minutes short on Duty Time. All I can say is keep an eye on that time and keep reading those notams because every time you think you have cracked it there will be some detail in there that will screw it up for you
Hope this helps someone a little bit. As for the interview there was NO technical questions whatsoever, just a little bit about myself and then all behavioural questions such as:
Tell me about a time when you have had to communicate a complicated idea to another person in different language?
What qualities do you consider a good leader to have, now tell me about a time when you have displayed these qualities?
Tell me about a time in the last two years when you have had to make a difficult decision which was not work related?
Tell me about a time when you have had conflict with a co-worker and how did you resolve this?
Tell me about a time when you have had to repremand someone for inappropriate behaviour not linked to performance?
All of the examples had to be specific stories with timeframes and details, i.e. not just your general overview.
Good Luck one and all.
They give you a route that you are rostered to fly A - B - A - C with flight times a schedule and basic perfomance figures that allow you to work out fuel. Of course on departure you have a tech fault that doesn't effect timings but does increase fuel burn putting your first destination just out of reach. On the first landing you have to get the fault fixed which increases your turnaround time to two hours from one hour. Your job is to replan the day with the goal of sticking as close to the original schedule as possible. The kicker comes when you see the notam sheet for all of the available airports. Things like restricted fuel supplies, no maintenance, runways shut at certain times and of course crew FDP's. You are required to write out 3 different options before selecting the one scenario you want to proceed with after which you have to fill out a detailed flight log with fuel uplifts and burns and adjustments to the schedule. Time is the major issue, I though that I had it cracked and had come up with a scenario that would only lose a couple of hours on the original schedule, then as I was filling in the flight log with about 10 minutes to go realised that my crew would be about 20 minutes short on Duty Time. All I can say is keep an eye on that time and keep reading those notams because every time you think you have cracked it there will be some detail in there that will screw it up for you
Hope this helps someone a little bit. As for the interview there was NO technical questions whatsoever, just a little bit about myself and then all behavioural questions such as:
Tell me about a time when you have had to communicate a complicated idea to another person in different language?
What qualities do you consider a good leader to have, now tell me about a time when you have displayed these qualities?
Tell me about a time in the last two years when you have had to make a difficult decision which was not work related?
Tell me about a time when you have had conflict with a co-worker and how did you resolve this?
Tell me about a time when you have had to repremand someone for inappropriate behaviour not linked to performance?
All of the examples had to be specific stories with timeframes and details, i.e. not just your general overview.
Good Luck one and all.