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Hi folks,
I know this has been asked previously, but I find the feedback so far is a bit confusing and contradicting. I would appreciate if anyone could clarify.
Is this an official requirement to have the first time pass in the Instrument Rating? Are they explicitly asking this question during the initial phone call? Was anyone invited to an interview with a failed IR and was hired?
I saw someone's reply in this thread from 2017, when the candidate was hired with a partial pass at the first IR skill test.
But what if you failed the first attempt?
I know this has been asked previously, but I find the feedback so far is a bit confusing and contradicting. I would appreciate if anyone could clarify.
Is this an official requirement to have the first time pass in the Instrument Rating? Are they explicitly asking this question during the initial phone call? Was anyone invited to an interview with a failed IR and was hired?
I saw someone's reply in this thread from 2017, when the candidate was hired with a partial pass at the first IR skill test.
But what if you failed the first attempt?
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Dear Colleagues,
I am looking for "Boeing 737 Rated First Officers - Bases Throughout Europe" in Ryanair.
I filled up a application form on their website directly for this senior first officer position. The day after I received email from the HR (I guess) when I am able to arrive for interview which will take place in Ryanair's Hangar in Stansted.
I answered for this email a 7 days ago but no any email received at all.
Do you have same experience? Or how long does it usually takes to select interview?
Sincerely Tomas.
I wish you all the best.
I am looking for "Boeing 737 Rated First Officers - Bases Throughout Europe" in Ryanair.
I filled up a application form on their website directly for this senior first officer position. The day after I received email from the HR (I guess) when I am able to arrive for interview which will take place in Ryanair's Hangar in Stansted.
I answered for this email a 7 days ago but no any email received at all.
Do you have same experience? Or how long does it usually takes to select interview?
Sincerely Tomas.
I wish you all the best.
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Hey folks,
two quick things:
1) I have done a Upilot brush-up before the interview: as you already heard, the guy knows his stuff. He actually made me practice much more in those two hours than I was asked to do during the assessment sim. Money very well spent.
2) I have seen several type rating FB groups. More than one has the same starting date though: who starts on July 16th?
All the best.
two quick things:
1) I have done a Upilot brush-up before the interview: as you already heard, the guy knows his stuff. He actually made me practice much more in those two hours than I was asked to do during the assessment sim. Money very well spent.
2) I have seen several type rating FB groups. More than one has the same starting date though: who starts on July 16th?
All the best.
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Hi All,
Anyone starting the intro week 16th of July?And the type in East Midlands 8th August on FR1816? Please PM if you are with us as we already have created a whatsapp group.
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Anyone starting the intro week 16th of July?And the type in East Midlands 8th August on FR1816? Please PM if you are with us as we already have created a whatsapp group.
Cheers
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Anyone who is on FR1819, starting the induction week at EMA on 6th August and then doing the TR at EMA - please feel free to join the facebook group i have just set up called FR1819!
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I had my assessment yesterday and got the positive reply today.
the layout of the day was exactly like everyone on here described. Sim was very chilled, they really want you to pass so just relax and give it all you got. HR interview was easy for me, technical was very, very basic, cant believe i studied so much for it, with this basic questions asked. The day before I went to Upilot, and honestly I can't recommend it enough. The young guy was at Upilot, and he though me more in 2 hours there then what a KLM chief pilot thought my in 6 hours on the 73 sim. Really great and affordable. Thanks to everyone on the forum for there input, it really helped me tor prepare. And all the best to folks applying in the future.
Cheers,
Dave
the layout of the day was exactly like everyone on here described. Sim was very chilled, they really want you to pass so just relax and give it all you got. HR interview was easy for me, technical was very, very basic, cant believe i studied so much for it, with this basic questions asked. The day before I went to Upilot, and honestly I can't recommend it enough. The young guy was at Upilot, and he though me more in 2 hours there then what a KLM chief pilot thought my in 6 hours on the 73 sim. Really great and affordable. Thanks to everyone on the forum for there input, it really helped me tor prepare. And all the best to folks applying in the future.
Cheers,
Dave
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Day
Okey, quick explanation on how my day went.
Application send: 25/05/2018
Confirmation: same day
Call email: 07/06/2018
Call: 08/06/2018
Assessment: 25/06/2018
Answer: 28/06/2018
The day started as everybody have described before, quick tour showing Ryanair HQ, jokes here and there and so on.
One-hour briefing and then got paired. My colleague and I were the first to go into the sim.
SIM: Liverpool
As PM: we got std SID WAL2T some, qdm, qdr, emergency (toilet fire), no radar service, so full procedural ILS (with a holding), and the PF decided to call for a Go Around as he thought the approach was unstable. Got repositioned and landed with no probs.
As PF: radar vectors departure, qdm, medical emergency, radar vectors to ILS, and landed. To be honest I did a great ILS, but then I landed a bit to too the right of the runway centerline. Captain asked me why and he repositioned me again on final and this time landed on the centerline.
Interview
As everybody says, nothing that haven't been said before, but I will write it, so you won't have to scroll up during 2h.
HR was first:
Why do you want to become a pilot.
Why you left your university degree half a way.
Why did you change of flight school in the middle of your training.
Any others assessments coming up?
If they offer you the job, which one would you choose.
Most difficult part of your training.
Maybe there's another one, but can't remember.
Then before finishing, she asked me If I could start first week of August. And if I would rather the 29.500k contract or the 5000 and 5 years bond one.
After that was the Tech part, very easy, no tricks, really quick. The same captain who did the sim with us, pointed a 737 pic on the wall and started asking questions, about the 737.
How many seats
Engine type
Wing type
How many swept angle
Why swept angle
Hydraulic sys. Pressure. How many pumps per system. What do they power
Then he started to laugh and advised, think the question before answer, you can see it on the picture. How many engines does the 737 have? And I was about to answer 2 when I realized that he was looking for 3, as the APU is an engine.
What systems does the APU power
Difference between the leading edge flaps and slats on the 737.
What does a slat and what a flap.
And that was all. At the end he asked me again when I could start.
I left very happy as I thought I was in because of the type of questions.
The following days were tough, as almost all of you get the positive answer the day after. And when I was thinking the worst because it was the third day after the assessment and no answer yet, suddenly in the afternoon I received the email saying that I was offered the job as cadet.
Hope it helps, every interview is different. As someone has stated before, during the interview they will ask you about what you know, so if for example you're not completely sure how to explain the way a High Bypass engine works, then if they ask you 737 engines, answer just CFM56-7 instead of High Bypass CFM56-7 rated at ...... because then they will ask you about that.
Now waiting for their call and see which dates they offer, so I will post here as soon as I can confirm it.
Application send: 25/05/2018
Confirmation: same day
Call email: 07/06/2018
Call: 08/06/2018
Assessment: 25/06/2018
Answer: 28/06/2018
The day started as everybody have described before, quick tour showing Ryanair HQ, jokes here and there and so on.
One-hour briefing and then got paired. My colleague and I were the first to go into the sim.
SIM: Liverpool
As PM: we got std SID WAL2T some, qdm, qdr, emergency (toilet fire), no radar service, so full procedural ILS (with a holding), and the PF decided to call for a Go Around as he thought the approach was unstable. Got repositioned and landed with no probs.
As PF: radar vectors departure, qdm, medical emergency, radar vectors to ILS, and landed. To be honest I did a great ILS, but then I landed a bit to too the right of the runway centerline. Captain asked me why and he repositioned me again on final and this time landed on the centerline.
Interview
As everybody says, nothing that haven't been said before, but I will write it, so you won't have to scroll up during 2h.
HR was first:
Why do you want to become a pilot.
Why you left your university degree half a way.
Why did you change of flight school in the middle of your training.
Any others assessments coming up?
If they offer you the job, which one would you choose.
Most difficult part of your training.
Maybe there's another one, but can't remember.
Then before finishing, she asked me If I could start first week of August. And if I would rather the 29.500k contract or the 5000 and 5 years bond one.
After that was the Tech part, very easy, no tricks, really quick. The same captain who did the sim with us, pointed a 737 pic on the wall and started asking questions, about the 737.
How many seats
Engine type
Wing type
How many swept angle
Why swept angle
Hydraulic sys. Pressure. How many pumps per system. What do they power
Then he started to laugh and advised, think the question before answer, you can see it on the picture. How many engines does the 737 have? And I was about to answer 2 when I realized that he was looking for 3, as the APU is an engine.
What systems does the APU power
Difference between the leading edge flaps and slats on the 737.
What does a slat and what a flap.
And that was all. At the end he asked me again when I could start.
I left very happy as I thought I was in because of the type of questions.
The following days were tough, as almost all of you get the positive answer the day after. And when I was thinking the worst because it was the third day after the assessment and no answer yet, suddenly in the afternoon I received the email saying that I was offered the job as cadet.
Hope it helps, every interview is different. As someone has stated before, during the interview they will ask you about what you know, so if for example you're not completely sure how to explain the way a High Bypass engine works, then if they ask you 737 engines, answer just CFM56-7 instead of High Bypass CFM56-7 rated at ...... because then they will ask you about that.
Now waiting for their call and see which dates they offer, so I will post here as soon as I can confirm it.
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Applied for Ryanair on 13/06/2018.
Email and phone call from CAE the day after to fix an interview for the 27th of June, so two days ago, and yesterday I got the email that I was successful!
I was also told they would book me into a type rating starting in August and now I am waiting for the phone call to know the exact details.
Since this forum was quite helpful I'd like to share my experience for people going to the interview in the future.
HR and Technical interview;
To prepare to the technical interview I revised directly from the ATPL books, I extrapolated as much questions as possible from this forum and I also bought a one month subscription from the website latestpilotjobs.com which basically contains questions both technical and from the HR that were asked to previous candidates.
As for me, I was initially asked a question from my resumé since I did a stage in a controlled tower when I was at the high school and so the assessor asked me what ATC is.
Then general questions such as;
- What type of navaids you had in the area where you did your training and what is the range of them
- Difference between rhumb line and great circle
- How does a thunderstorm create
- Why do we have MZFM
I didn't get any questions regarding the 737 and my previous multi-engine.
As for the HR interview it was basically a conversation regarding what I did in my life and basically for me it was about high school and flight school since I'm 19, why Ryanair, what do you see yourself in five years and that's it.
Simulator;
We flew out of Liverpool runway 27, WAL2T departure initially.
Remember to brief the SID and emergency before and after V1.
When I was PF I got an amended departure; climb straight ahead till 2nm after the ILS DME and then turn right heading 180°.
Then I was asked to to some turn, climb, descent acceleration and deceleration. At this point I was asked on which QDM I was and to intercept and track another QDM to eventually enter into the holding over LPL NDB.
Once in the hold SIM was frozen and I got a call from the cabin, it was severe smoke in the galley and at this point they want you to do FORDEC/DODAR and NITS.
We were then repositioned and asked both to determine position autonomously and then approach briefing followed by the ILS raw data.
When I was PM it was almost the same, only difference my partner had to fly standard SID.
They want good CRM in the cockpit so just brief what you are going to do (e.g. holding briefing, approach briefing) and when you are PM try to assist as much as possible your PM.
Email and phone call from CAE the day after to fix an interview for the 27th of June, so two days ago, and yesterday I got the email that I was successful!
I was also told they would book me into a type rating starting in August and now I am waiting for the phone call to know the exact details.
Since this forum was quite helpful I'd like to share my experience for people going to the interview in the future.
HR and Technical interview;
To prepare to the technical interview I revised directly from the ATPL books, I extrapolated as much questions as possible from this forum and I also bought a one month subscription from the website latestpilotjobs.com which basically contains questions both technical and from the HR that were asked to previous candidates.
As for me, I was initially asked a question from my resumé since I did a stage in a controlled tower when I was at the high school and so the assessor asked me what ATC is.
Then general questions such as;
- What type of navaids you had in the area where you did your training and what is the range of them
- Difference between rhumb line and great circle
- How does a thunderstorm create
- Why do we have MZFM
I didn't get any questions regarding the 737 and my previous multi-engine.
As for the HR interview it was basically a conversation regarding what I did in my life and basically for me it was about high school and flight school since I'm 19, why Ryanair, what do you see yourself in five years and that's it.
Simulator;
We flew out of Liverpool runway 27, WAL2T departure initially.
Remember to brief the SID and emergency before and after V1.
When I was PF I got an amended departure; climb straight ahead till 2nm after the ILS DME and then turn right heading 180°.
Then I was asked to to some turn, climb, descent acceleration and deceleration. At this point I was asked on which QDM I was and to intercept and track another QDM to eventually enter into the holding over LPL NDB.
Once in the hold SIM was frozen and I got a call from the cabin, it was severe smoke in the galley and at this point they want you to do FORDEC/DODAR and NITS.
We were then repositioned and asked both to determine position autonomously and then approach briefing followed by the ILS raw data.
When I was PM it was almost the same, only difference my partner had to fly standard SID.
They want good CRM in the cockpit so just brief what you are going to do (e.g. holding briefing, approach briefing) and when you are PM try to assist as much as possible your PM.
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Hi!!!
Some questions for the second attempt experienced people:
do we have to wait 6 months and use a new e-mail?
My training request date on cae website was 24/03/2018 so, can I re-apply next 24/09/2018?
Thanks for you help!
Some questions for the second attempt experienced people:
do we have to wait 6 months and use a new e-mail?
My training request date on cae website was 24/03/2018 so, can I re-apply next 24/09/2018?
Thanks for you help!