Interview experience:
I would like to start by saying that everyone I encountered at Mesaba was super friendly and, from what I saw, there was very high company moral. They run a very nice facility that has a good employee oriented environment.
First, we were introduced to an HR rep and a captain that was to help with the interviewing. We were put in a room and the captain made a quick presentation on how cool Mesaba is and why we should work there. Then the captain took a quick tour of their facility. He showed us the classrooms, sims, ops center and stuff like that. Then we went back into the first room and the HR rep gave us a 50 question personality test and a 50 question knowledge test. Pretty straight forward, questions about VDPs, weather interpretation, fog and frost formation, speed limits, holding speed limits and hold entries, class B cloud clearance reqs, MSA questions, approach plates. Pretty much just part 91 questions and stuff from the aim and jepp plates. There wasn't any 121 questions on my test at least.
Then we were split up and waited for the HR/Tech portion. For this part, there was the same HR rep and a different line captain. First I was asked HR stuff like Tell me about a time you made a decision in the cockpit that you regret. Tell me about a time you've been scared flying. They gave me a situational question about a small fire on the aircraft from cabin heaters after a cold night before the first flight of the day, how would I handle this situation if the captain was ready to go, pax we boarding and mx control released the aircraft. Would I fly the plane. Then the Captain asked me some questions about an aircraft of my choice electrical system. He asked "You have a right DC gen failure. What do you do? Then the left DC gen fails, what next?" Then some more general IFR questions. Pretty much a small instrument checkride.
If you make it through that, they give you a conditional offer of employment contingent on not blowing the sim or failing the drug test/ background check.
Their sim is kinda funky. It's just a big black box with a yoke and gauges on it. It's pretty easy to fly, the only trouble I felt I had was actually treating the sim like I was actually flying an aircraft since its just a big black box. Pretty much all that came next was some 4 basics ir, a steep turn to the left. Intercepting and tracking a radial and the instructor asks some situational questions regarding the vor. Then you set up for an ILS to a missed and I did a hold entry, and one turn in the hold. I didn't feel I flew as well as I could have, other guys said they only had to explain the hold entry and they were done. After that came finger printing and a urine test.
All in all it was really laid back and everyone is really nice, like I said before.
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Mesaba Sample Study Guide Questions:
1. Explain about your driving tickets?
2. Why Mesaba?
3. What if your captain won't use checklist?
4. A time you made a decision you later would have changed?
5. If they were to call a student of mine what would they say about you?
6. What would you do if your had a captain that you were a better pilot than and you were uncomfortable how would you express that discomfort.
7. Tell me about the electrical system on the latest twin you have flown.
8. What would you do if the right alt failed?
9. You shoot a approach into a field and go missed at minimums then your left engine dies. How long will you have power?
10. Max airspeed below Class Bravo?
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