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No tech. questions. Only interested in former jobs, military duty, why you chose to be a pilot etc. My interview lasted approx. 30 mins. Didn´t feel pressured at all really.
Just put on a tie and smile (and look smart, he, he)!
Just put on a tie and smile (and look smart, he, he)!
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Wideroe............
HaHa, a funny place! Did my tetsts back in '97 and called them after a couple of weeks. Was then told that I've passed all the tests but has never heard from them since!!!!
Makes you wonder, don't it!
Have heard that it's getting more proffesional once on line and I sure hope so!
More funny though that Jim Morrison is still doing the psych thing, though he would have OD'd by now.........
Good luck to anyone going for it:-)
HaHa, a funny place! Did my tetsts back in '97 and called them after a couple of weeks. Was then told that I've passed all the tests but has never heard from them since!!!!
Makes you wonder, don't it!
Have heard that it's getting more proffesional once on line and I sure hope so!
More funny though that Jim Morrison is still doing the psych thing, though he would have OD'd by now.........
Good luck to anyone going for it:-)
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Viking207 & SAC:
Well - nothing official yet. Too many variables to be dealt with, leading up to our new industrial agreement in 2006. But I can tell you that we would not be holding 5-6 t/r courses this year, if we weren't expanding the next two years
RE interview: I had a 15min chat with the admission board. Nothing nasty, and no ATPL Qs. But that's almost 7 years ago now!
Good luck! WF probably has the best working conditions in the business! But then there's the thing about light turbo props and STOL-ops...
norving: haven't heard of a single company yet, that does not do exactly the same to one or more of it's applicants. That's the way this business goes.
Well - nothing official yet. Too many variables to be dealt with, leading up to our new industrial agreement in 2006. But I can tell you that we would not be holding 5-6 t/r courses this year, if we weren't expanding the next two years
RE interview: I had a 15min chat with the admission board. Nothing nasty, and no ATPL Qs. But that's almost 7 years ago now!
Good luck! WF probably has the best working conditions in the business!
But then there's the thing about light turbo props and STOL-ops...norving: haven't heard of a single company yet, that does not do exactly the same to one or more of it's applicants. That's the way this business goes.
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Or call Wideroe in Bodo at 75513500 and ask for Ashild Brekken/Training Department. She can send you the standard form (standard two pages, no "tell about one time your leadership resulted in the groups success, etc"-BS )
If you only send the CV or a free text application you will still receive the form to be completed anyway. Saves you some time to ask for the form in the first place (we are all standard lazy pilots, no?)!
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)If you only send the CV or a free text application you will still receive the form to be completed anyway. Saves you some time to ask for the form in the first place (we are all standard lazy pilots, no?)!
Regards
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OK - sent you a PM, but I'll post most of it as well:
WF pays for the type rating. No bonding. You get paid during the t/r course.
Roster is 7 on - 7 off, or another variant which will give you every weekend off, and you can manipulate your own roster quite a lot... the latter being somewhat complicated to explain here
Pay is good, starting on about NOK350k/yr. Will have increased to NOK450k@year 4. Daily allowances and extra work comes in addition; about 30-100k/y, depending on how much you're willing to do extra work.
About 7 years to command at present.
Excellent pension and insurance/loss of license.
Bases are Torp/Sandefjord, Gardermoen/Oslo, Bergen, Bodø and Tromsø.
Full STAR Alliance ticket agreement ++.
In other words - a good deal. Other companies may pay you more, but you'll have to work a whole lot more... We fly about 450-550hrs/yr.
WF pays for the type rating. No bonding. You get paid during the t/r course.
Roster is 7 on - 7 off, or another variant which will give you every weekend off, and you can manipulate your own roster quite a lot... the latter being somewhat complicated to explain here
Pay is good, starting on about NOK350k/yr. Will have increased to NOK450k@year 4. Daily allowances and extra work comes in addition; about 30-100k/y, depending on how much you're willing to do extra work.
About 7 years to command at present.
Excellent pension and insurance/loss of license.
Bases are Torp/Sandefjord, Gardermoen/Oslo, Bergen, Bodø and Tromsø.
Full STAR Alliance ticket agreement ++.
In other words - a good deal. Other companies may pay you more, but you'll have to work a whole lot more... We fly about 450-550hrs/yr.
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Wideroe doesn´t really know themselves right now how many pilots they need. It depends on which routes they´re gonna fly the next 3 years (decided 1st Nov). They also have (rumour has it) own expansion plans for next year requiring further pilot recruitment. Time will show later this Fall.
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So people, what do you think of the tests? I think I did OK overall. I performed a lot better after lunch than before.
I struggled specially with the test when Jim Morrison was reading numbers, words etc. and we should write it down backwards. My impression is that they expected everybody to struggle...and all the others I talked to did! :-)
Repeating numbers backwards together with Jim Morrions son was easier. He told me that I was OK and also wrote OK next to my name. Scanning test was easy.
The final test "Simultankapasitet" was tricky, but I finished them all! I have actually been through a similar test before. People sitting around me only got half way through as far as I could see.
The next few weeks gonna be very exciting! My feeling is good, but you never know what's gonna happend....
I struggled specially with the test when Jim Morrison was reading numbers, words etc. and we should write it down backwards. My impression is that they expected everybody to struggle...and all the others I talked to did! :-)
Repeating numbers backwards together with Jim Morrions son was easier. He told me that I was OK and also wrote OK next to my name. Scanning test was easy.
The final test "Simultankapasitet" was tricky, but I finished them all! I have actually been through a similar test before. People sitting around me only got half way through as far as I could see.
The next few weeks gonna be very exciting! My feeling is good, but you never know what's gonna happend....
Last edited by BestGlide; 14th Oct 2005 at 20:28.
