Is there a Shortage?
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HH,
we could probably fill several treads on pilot recruiting. Each airline thinks theirs is the best.
Regrettably, the HSC is a barrier to quite a few good people, just like financing your endorsement is.
Slice, suitable from where I sit means applicants that:
1. Meet the education criteria;
2. Meet the minimum aeronautical experience criteria ;
3. Pass the Stage 2 S & P;
and now
4. Ability or willingness to self-fund the endorsement.
Any or all the above can (and does) cull (IMHO) some perfectly acceptable pilots. Just about everybody knows of somebody who has surprisingly missed out on getting past that stage of QF Group recruitment. Regrettably, that's the way it is......
The sim ride should be reasonably routine for a well prepared (and skilled) candidate. Typically our candidates have well over a thousand multi-IFR (procedures), with a few being on the lower side, having at least the minimum 500hrs.
I can't speak for any other companies, but the interview we do is relatively straight forward, and there is nothing convoluted or particularly difficult about a behavioural-based interview, unless you're a bull****ter. I've done the "fly on the wall" at a few now, and one thing's for sure - you can smell a bull****ter from 10m
we could probably fill several treads on pilot recruiting. Each airline thinks theirs is the best.
Regrettably, the HSC is a barrier to quite a few good people, just like financing your endorsement is.
Slice, suitable from where I sit means applicants that:
1. Meet the education criteria;
2. Meet the minimum aeronautical experience criteria ;
3. Pass the Stage 2 S & P;
and now
4. Ability or willingness to self-fund the endorsement.
Any or all the above can (and does) cull (IMHO) some perfectly acceptable pilots. Just about everybody knows of somebody who has surprisingly missed out on getting past that stage of QF Group recruitment. Regrettably, that's the way it is......
The sim ride should be reasonably routine for a well prepared (and skilled) candidate. Typically our candidates have well over a thousand multi-IFR (procedures), with a few being on the lower side, having at least the minimum 500hrs.
I can't speak for any other companies, but the interview we do is relatively straight forward, and there is nothing convoluted or particularly difficult about a behavioural-based interview, unless you're a bull****ter. I've done the "fly on the wall" at a few now, and one thing's for sure - you can smell a bull****ter from 10m
