My experience was crazy. I’m out of CRW so was able to fly in that morning; problem was CLT was closed to inbound traffic for fog. I had a 0930 interview and didn’t land until 1030. Jennifer at HR didn’t even make the trip so my interview was done by the two chief pilots at CLT in the crew room. These guys were super cool and laid back, as soon as I met them I calmed down and was no longer nervous. My oral was conducted as we walked through CLT (I was the only one that made it to the interview so we were all trying to pop smoke and get back home). They asked what I had been up to, and what experience I had, something we had in common were we both had flown PA44’s so clearly they drilled me about that. “What was blue line on that aircraft, and what was the critical engine. If we lost the left engine what kind of rudder input would we need.” I fumbled that last question getting confused and we all laughed about it, clearly I know how to handle a failed engine, just had a brain fart explaining it and they were cool with that. They wanted to know what I knew about slats, I had a good idea but was nowhere close to the book explanation and we went over it with him further explaining it to me. (Funny, this was a question on the written test, “how to slats work” or something close to that.) I’ve got about 60 hours in a Cessna Citation and they wanted to know how I felt about the aircraft. I told them it was a good transition as a Citation is a slower jet, and I think I would have felt thrown to the wolves going from a 206 to something like a Lear. I told him I felt the Citation really would help me make the transition to a CRJ as things happen a lot faster. No real tech questions on the C550. At the beginning, they also wanted to know when I knew about the company. I told them I knew they operated the CRJ200-700 Aircraft, owned by USAIR and they were appealing to me due to their base locations. They went on to reiterate a little more about the company (number of employees etc) and wanted to know why I wanted the job. After all this they made me feel like they knew I knew what I was doing and that I pretty much had the job unless I just completely bombed the written, or flew the sim into a mountain, as I said they were very nice and easy going. The written was what got me, I had studied every gouge posted on the site, including signing up for aviationinterviews.com and out of all of them there were only 3 questions that I had studied. After I finished I shook my head and told them they had thrown a curve ball at me and we discussed how the written had changed and the younger chief pilot (seemed) visually bummed that I didn’t pass the written. Told me they were both please to meet me and stressed that I needed to re-apply in six months that they would love to offer me a job, they just weren’t accepting less than 20-25 on the written test. (They had told me the new written was getting everyone). I apologize, I wish I had more questions off the test, but this is what I remember. (All multiple Choice)
· LDA 19 missed approach what altitude do you hold and what altitude?
· How will gust effect swept wing?
· At a constant airspeed, as wind direction changes: (this was on the instrument written and always confused me for some reason)
· Decode a TAF (at ? when will wind be __ with __ vis.
(They give you 4 different times)
· LDA 19 approach, tdz rounded to 800 what is the vdp? 620? 600 700
· What restricts performance on a jet engine.
a.compression
b.etc.
· In bad turbulence do you maintain constant airspeed and pitch?
· One troposphere question.
A lot of the questions you should know ask to use a calculator, and just relax. PSA seemed like a really good company. I have a couple friends that are quite happy there. Less than 12 months to get a line and reserve for 6 months… not bad... Good luck to you and let me know how it goes if you don’t mind, try to remember some written questions and return the favor.