Hi holdmetight,

What will be included in your stage 1a selection process?

Wombat test?
English Test?
Reasoning Test?
Presentation?
Anything else?

Andrew,

Not sure, the email did not say, but I will advise when advised. ;)

My latest e-mail correspondence with them has confirmed that my Stage 1 interview is to take place on 8th July from 0930-1230. Anyone else going to Cathay City on that day for the same thing?

Hi guys, Im currently at Cabair College of Air training and ive nearly finished my ME CPL and soon my IR, im just wondering, is this cadet scheme from cathay pacific gurantee a job at the end of it? and if so, do you think i could just walk in with my frozen ATPL and try and get a job with them? Naive maybe i know, but i was told no question was a silly question :) any response would be appreciated :ok:

Regarding 2nd round
 

Hi, I'm Kenneth. Have any one had any experience on 2nd round interview for cadet ship. If you do please share... Thank you.

Hi Rico,

There is no gurantee a job even if they accept you as a cadet pilot. They may offer you a job depending on the economic environment, as well as you meeting the required standard.

Most of the cadets were offered a job as an S/O after their training and P2x rating. However, there were some cadets who failed the P2x rating and did not get a job finally.

If the economy is bad, then CX may defer your type rating training and you may need to look for a job while you are waiting for the course to start.

Also, there are numbers of cadet down in Adelaide have got frozen ATPL. You can give it a go if you're interested.

Cheers

Well done Holdmetight
 

Hi holdmetight,

Congratulations on your invitation you must be very happy!

Just want to ask, how long did you wait after you were told you were unsuccessful that you re-applied online?

Was this 6months plus 1 week wait in addition to the cool down time you had waited before re-application?

Also, which stage was it you got to in the 1st attempt?

You have a pretty good chance I believe because I know you have prepared a lot from your posts, so good luck!

Thanks everyone for all your input - great thead.

Am I right in inferring from the above posts that there is no numerical aptitude testing in Stage 1 of the process?

rgds

Thanks Andrew,

Ill have to look into it, its worth a shot these days anyway!!!!

thanks again

@ MWR & KOKabul

I applied september/october time. I emailed them approximately 3 weeks ago and the reply I had was the generic that they will invite for assessment when they're in the region next.
Just hold on in there, its all that can be done at the moment

@ holdmetight
 

Hey Buddy. Congrats on getting called back. I'm really happy that you finally got a call. You've been working for it for a long time. I also like the fact that you never lost hope after the first attempt. Best of Luck to you! Let us all know how your doing. And congrats to everyone else who received a call.

hey holdmetight, good news! goodluck, judging by your last few posts, i think we may share the same instructor! :ok:

Update
 

Andrew_W
It has been confirmed that my "Stage 1" will comprise the Job Knowledge Test and an interview of 30-45 minutes duration. No tests whatsoever, at least for now.

CharlieXray777
I submitted my second application around 1 year and 11-ish months after my initial rejection, then waited 6 months and 1 week for them to reply me, now here I am. I failed Stage 2 in my first application, which was back in late 2007.

Bizzle284
Thanks for your words of encouragement, hope all goes well with you too. :ok:

khammy87
I have noted with some friends of mine that the entire process from Stage 1A (if that applies to you) to Stage 3 takes about 2 months. Flight grading happens when they decide to send you down under. This doesn't actually answer your question but you can kind of guess the timeframes involved.

orangeboy
 

LOL I wouldn't be surprised, the world is a small place! ;)

If you don't mind, you can PM me and tell me who you are...

holdmetight
 

congratulations mate! :ok:
i am sure you will get in!
best of luck.

anybody have their interview in HK on july 28th?!

My interview is on the 29th of this month in HKG except that it's for Stage 1.

Will be arriving HK on the 5th of July for the second and hopefully third stage of interview on 7th and 8th.

One question that had been bothering me is that what kind of engines that CX fleets use? Some sites indicate that the RR Trents are the ones used but just wondering if there's a site listing all the engines used by their fleet.

Hey mate,
I'm heading over for the same 2 interviews aswell. I'll see ya there.
To answer your question, I'm not sure if there is a site.
But I do know that the engines on the CX fleet are as follows:

A340-300 : CFM56
A330-300: Rolls Royce Trent 700
777-200 and 300: Rolls Royce Trent 800
777-300ER: GE90-115
747-400: Rolls Royce RB211-524
747-400(the few aquired from SIA): PW4062

Cheers,

If anyone has a copy of - 'Preparing for your Cathay Pacific interview' and would like to sell it, please make contact with me.

Take a peek at the last page in the in flight magazine on your flight over. It has some nice fleet details in it. You can find engine details on the Boeing and Airbus websites. For example, the 777-300ER only uses GE90-115B engines (Boeing: Commercial Airplanes -- 777-200LR/-300ER Technical Characteristics) therefore you now know that Cathay uses those engines on it's 300ER fleet..

Hey!!

Guys i really need your help on this.

Does CX recruit you as a reserve pilot?

And if it does then till how much time do you work as a reserve?

And are reserves taken the way other pilots are taken.

I mean the selection process is the same?

Your help will be appreciated .:ok:

Waiting
 

I did my stage one 20 days ago, still not received any response. Does anyone know if the results comes from HK or the city I did the test in (Paris)?

Am I the only one waiting for a reply, or is someone on the same boat?

If not I guess I shall call them tomorrow and ask..

Thank´s!

How to contact CX recruitment please?
 

Hi, Can you please tell me on which no. or email I might contact "them", i.e CX recruitment team please?
I currently work as a science teacher and happen to have jul-aug as 2 months of holidays hence free to call for interview should I be selected. I really would like to pass this info along, should it be of help to me.
Thanks
Assad

How do you follow up your application with HR?
 

Does anyone have an HR contact in HK or UK/Europe to follow up app? If so, please PM me.

Interview Locations
 

Looking for some advice guys. For my first preference of interview location I've put Australia (home), however I'm kinda stuck on the second. New Zealand would be the next closest/easiest/cheapest location however Hong Kong would probably mean a sooner/better chance at an interview...any thoughts? What would someone in my position put?

Edit: Opted for HK.

piper cherokee
 

Seriously, this is very basic info that if you had even the slightest interest in getting a job with cx you would know as it is all explained in pretty much the first place you would look if you wanted to apply.

Yes employed as a reserve pilot as you put it.

Selection is that of a cadet, read a bit of this thread.

At the moment people have spent about 4 years as a reserve pilot before becoming a real pilot. :ugh:

hey thx for d answer sloppyjoe.I haven't applied for CX nor am i being recruited for it.I needed this info for a friend of mine who has been in this process for past 6 months.So far no interview or examination call has been received by him and he wanted to know if he should go forward with the CX if they recruit him.

Just anoder question how many hours do you get to fly as a reserve? Thanks a lot .

Good evening (GMT +1 ;) )

Been watching this thread in the month since I applied online :ok:

Any other other chaps from the UK in waiting? I've been told by Cx that they'll recruit "in my area" when "enough candidates" are selected. So ... whenever they feel like it! It's not that encouraging reading most of you guys have been waiting some months for any news (if not a year or more!!).

I won't pack my suitcase just yet :sad:

Hey Guys,

Just a quick question..? Does anybody have any idea on which of the aircraft a second officer is used on? I've read on the website it says the 747, 777-300ER, A340-300 and 600 series, however I presume this may be outstanding seeings that the 600 series is no longer in service. Are they used on the A330, 777-300/200?

Good Luck to everybody!

Thanks for the help Cyyap3 :ok:

:ok:Cathay DO deploy S/O onto the A330 fleet,but normally to port like YPPF and YSSY which the flight time is longer than 8 hrs.

pls correct me if i am not correct on this one

Has Cathay started giving cadets any kind of housing allowance yet?

Cheers.

Cyyap3
 

Don't know where you are getting your info from but Airbus SO's mainly fly on the 330. To everywhere but perth and cairns in australia, bahrain, dubai, bali, saudi, karachi from bangkok, the 340 trips are only rome, moscow (soon), auckland and vancouver oh and south africa in their winter. Don't think there are many more 340 trips the SO's do. When you start as an SO on the airbus fleet you are only on the 340 but after about a year you get to fly the 330 also and then most of your trips are 330. Not every flight that has three or four cockpit crew has an SO on it.

Cathay do not fly to YPPF unless you count the cadets still training as cathay flying there. We fly to YPAD.

Wombat
 

:confused:

I was just reading the Wombat Candidate's Manual and on page 20 it tries to explain the Quadrant-Location Task. Does anybody know how this bonus task works? So far, my understanding of it is to press the four keys in the order where the numbers 1 to 32 lie in ascending order. My question is, how do we know which 8 digits lie in which quadrant? Or is it just guess work?

Thanks in advance.

@standardtoaster

It's not guess work. The 32 numbers are randomly placed into each of the 4 quadrants. Then you look for the numbers in the quadrants, before selecting the one of the 4 keys to cancel them. You get to see the numbers, it's not hidden or anything like that ...

@bonbon512

Thank you for explaining. How do you look for them?

You can't really get prepared for Wombat...This seems really hard and you'll have the feeling of having completely failed (perhaps)...Anyway Cathay does look to the whole Stage 1 tests.

Just try to be very concentrated on the tracking (main task) and the best preparation is probably having some long rest nights the week before the itw!

Good luck

Would you please give me some more links of aptitude tests,psychometric and psychomotor tests.I will highly appreciate your help

@umpPilot
The flight planning is very basic. No instruments or nav-aids needed. They just give you a map with some cities and tell you they want to go from one to the other. The document you get has the runway lengths, hours of operation, etc...its really basic.

I sent out an email (not sure if I sent one to you or not), but it has info on Cathay and some of the tech questions I or others were asked. If you want just PM me your email address.

@dronehawk
I just found the QANTAS practice reasoning and aptitude tests. I had them on my computer and forgot about it. PM your email address and I can send it.

This goes for everyone else too.

-Cheers:ok:

@dronehawk

Check this one, I think it helps...

How to Pass Professional Level ... - Google Books