Eagle Air Interviewing
 

I am surprised this hasn't shown yet. Several people have been rung for interviews. Ground course for B1900D in Oct apparantly.



" It has begun " ;)


S2K

Thats good, because originally they it was no more till end of year, guess christmas is coming early :D

that's what i hear:)

Hmmm,

Contracted on 32K...

They interviewed about 2 weeks ago, 10 people.

Ive heard three missed out on a ground course and told not to apply again.

Are they doing charter or RPT or cargo?

NM are also about to hire more F/Os for their 10th ATR due Feb next year so that puts pressure on other regionals.

:D :D :D :D :D

So all you South Island born, ex Cant Aero club CPL's will be rubbing your hands together no doubt!

Well more to hand

13 people got rung up for interviews and only 4 are on the ground course. Hmm. Okay so you interview 13 and say one or two usually don't make the grade then that leaves 11-12 people who could still get in. I think the interview process was different but it all hinged on the sim ride. If you nailed the sim ride then you got in.

Ground course starts Monday 15 October for 6 days. The next ground course is set for November. For the Whakatane boys/girls and hopefully another lot from interviews.

Do well in the sim and you'll go far.

Another rumour is that they marked another 20 people for interviews. All very interesting.:)

Hope this helps :)

What sim?:confused:

You get checked out in either Ardmore Flying School's or Massey's AST300 sim. Last time it was AFS.

Generally it is a 'shortish' IFR flight covering all the ususal stuff, holds VOR/NDB and ILS approach. The main thing with it is to know how to fly an approach.

Good for the instructors who use/have access to the equipment eh?

Any special reason why they bought the sim evaluation into it? Is Air Nelson going to do the same?

Probably just trying to make sure they don't get any more 'duds', so to speak....

OR: they are trying to imitate a real airline and reiterate to the prospective employees that they have finally made the big time! :rolleyes:

I heard that they are working to rule..... wonder if the new guys are prepared for the bumfight they are entering.....

The good word is that the Sim ride was introduced because there was a dissapointing NDB/RMI standard when new entrants were hired.

The sim ride is basically a SID using the NDB, enter a NDB hold, lap of the hold, NDB approach. No emergencies but they apparantly add some situation awareness into it by changing the wind. About 20-25 minutes all up.

S2K

Centurion,howzit bro?

BWM - good bro, not so busy though. Sounds like a few jobs around, OP is hiring soon as well i believe. Hopefully next time your down we can catch up for a pint.

Hours??
 

What hours are they asking as the minimum??

Eagle will probably need a few more drivers as CX, Airnz & Mt Cook are all interveiwing pilots from eagle over the the next month. looks like xmas will come early for some of the troops.

Sim ride is probably a good idea as when I used to train at eagle it was amazing the number of pilots who we had to teach how to fly IFR, some were missing at lot of basic skills. eg, distances around arc's, how to correct for drift on app's & in holds, planning profiles, how to scan.

I guess it's because in a lot of cases they are being taught by inexperinced IFR instrutors who haven't had any practical operational experience. If you are going to do an Instrument rating go somewhere where they know there stuff.
Eagle fly into a lot of places where it's NDB app's only so you need to be sharp on the basics.

Albatross , now why would Air Nelson change their tried and tested way for getting the best out of GA?
There's nothing wrong with a wee chat for 20 odd min and getting a job on a way cool SAAB!
and...
Maybe Nsn hires people with a few more clues-oops-hours than Beagle Motors do..... & I hear their ind-action will slowly wind the crew-controllers hair out...
And ClutchCargo, I understand that the staff that were interviewed from AFS got a totally different sim ride... but still on the same machine....
We could also be hiring soon, most of our temps have gone to OP and one or two have interviews with NM so watch this space.
And remember that the SAAB has an AUTOPILOT! unlike the B1900........
Ciao