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Old 9th May 2011, 06:46
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Fata exam contents

Anyone have an info or a study guide or contents of the latest FATA exams ? need it for a friend. I only have info from 2 years ago and I am sure its changed since then.

PM me any info please

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I also need something was there any update to this post.
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Old 7th May 2015, 00:43
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Thumbs up May FATA interview

Just taken the FATA interview and it was very fair and lasted for around 20 mins.
Delhi appointment 14:30
Arrived 14:00 Sat in waiting room no AC for 20 mins with company rep and waited for the DGCA liaison that they use.
Went to the license and training offices and sat in the corridors exposed to a very hot outside temp, for another 30 mins and eventually stood inside the offices which was cooler.
The interviews started the interviews around 16:00 I was second up around 16:30.
The 4 interviewers were all very nice and professional and the FOI was very nice and asked me some questions on why I wanted to come to India etc.. The paperwork guy asked for license, medical and passport originals and all looked at them.
One of them, a 777 pilot asked if I had flown in the Newark and in particular to the short runway, I had, so then he asked me what EMAS stood for, well I couldn't remember but was able to give a good description of what it was and does. He asked why it was there, to stop aircraft overrunning the boundary on shorter runways I said, that wasn't quite what he was looking for so he asked why again and I said due to obstacles like building and road at the perimeter, yes he said and water at JFK.
Then I was asked about C and D airspace separation I fumble a bit but got through that then the FOI asked about duty flight time limits and I rattled them off.
It finished with some friendly advice on the up coming monsoon season and that was it.

I have FAA and EASA ATPLs 6100 TT 2000+ on type. I went in with a load of copies of pass checks, training documents, licenses, 299s, 293a, 297, CFI cert, log book copies, PRIA check, English proficient cert, old/new medicals and more.
I wore my uniform but was the best dressed there.
Despite that they still found more documents they needed which were quite easy to get, a self declaration on no accident incident in 5 years and previous employer confirmation of hours.

I had studied extensively the ops manual, PBN, RNP etc.. Plus more questions I found on line but didn't neede them, that said I feel they could have pulled any question out of the hat at any time.
Smile a lot, be curtious, professional and patient.

I built it up in my mind to be far more that it ended up being, that said I was prepared as always.

Hope this helps
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...but was the best dressed there.
You scored brownie points for that one.

Reminds me of one interview where I was dressed up schmicko in a new suit, spit-polished shoes, spit-polished hair while the interviewers looked like they'd just left the unemployment office after a drinking binge the night before. They did mention that informal attire was stated as an option for the interview and why was I dressed up like Trump at a board meeting? I responded by saying when it comes to professional meetings, I dress according to the importance I place on that meeting. This gave me a bucketful of brownie points which they cashed in for me when they pointed out I missed a question on the application form.

In reality I overdressed because I was too scared of being underdressed which globally is a BIG interview no-no!
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