The Assessment were placed in Istanbul IFTC organized by MECCTI/AVIATION WORK FORCE Agency although there have been no confirmation before the assessment about the reality of the agency but once I arrived Istanbul every thing were well organized and more than expected very friendly people all over the place including the Oman Air Fleet Chief Manager C. Ajamy who were doing the assessment by himself.

You are provided with free of charge 2 nights in a 4 star hotel WOW Istanbul pretty close to the Airport & the IFTC center were the assessment takes place you will have only to pay 500$ for the simulator session & your ticket To/From Istanbul.

The assessment is straight forward and is mainly about your simulator performance, you will fly in OOMS airport and the scenario starts with a normal visual circuit for runway 26 with no failures then followed by another take with an engine failure after V1 you completed the ILS procedure to land and mostly you will not see the runway for a Go-Around followed by a non precision approach this takes around 1 hour then you switch with your assigned partner to be a PM.

There is no specific criteria to maintain as candidates coming from different companies you have to fly your own company SOP and before the simulator you have the chance to brief your assigned partner and discuss with him all your SOP so you can be both one team during the simulator assessment.

If you did well in the simulator the interview is pretty simple with minor technical questions/recall items and its mostly to fill paper work and if successful you will be informed at the end non officially till you receive the official Emails/Paper work.