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Interview Profile

• Phone Interview
  • Are you still interested in Avantair?
  • Why do you want to leave your current job?
  • What are you currently flying?
  • Why Avantair?
  • Set up interview date/time, usually within 1-2 weeks
• Interview Starts at 10am at the Avantair Tampa Head Quarters
• Fill out basic paperwork
  • Bring previous work history information
  • Bring previous living history information
• As an interview group (5-8 interviews) taken to a class room
  • Asked what you know about Avantair
  • Asked what you know about the Avanti, P180
  • Shown power-point presentation about the company
• Written Test
  • 30 Questions Total
  • 10 Multiple Choice
• Panel Interview
  • 1-4 Interviewers
  • HR and technical quesitons
• Simulator
  • PCATD "Elite" Desk Top Simulator
  • Configured like a King Air
• Tour of facility, aircraft tour
• Exit interview
  • When can you start?
  • Why do you want to fly here?

Interview Question Bank

Human Resource Questions

• What makes you stand out from the other interviewees?
• Where would you like to be in 5(10) years
• What are the characteristics of a good Captain?
• If you had to choose, who would sit on the dog house (Chuck Yeager, Amelia Earheart, Snoopy)
• Questions about your logbook
  • Interesting airplanes
  • Comments in the notes section
• TMAAT you made an unpopular decision.
• What is your dream job?
• If offered a higher paying job in a week, what would you do?
• TMAAT you had to correct a captain.
• What would you do if a 55 year old first officer refused to clean the lav?
• How would you handle difficult passenger situations
  • Clients kids are writing on the aircraft interior
  • You put a passenger's computer in un-pressurized cargo bin
  • Over fueled and passenger brought extra bags
• Questions about current aircraft
  • Weights
  • Limits

Technical Questions

• What are the stages of a thunderstorm?
• What are the characteristics of a microburst?
• What are the colors of taxiway lights?
• How long is the touchdown zone?
• How many feet remaining when only red lights?
• What are the altitudes of RVSM?
• Given Weather to read
  • METAR
  • TAF
• Brief an approach
  • Don't forget the notes section (there are night restrictions in Aspen)
  • What weather do you need to begin this approach?
  • Where is the Final Approach Fix?
  • Where is the Missed Approach Point?
  • Highest Terrain?
  • What would you do if you need to go missed prior to the MAP?
• What are the high altitude oxygen requirements?
• How far out are VASI accurate? (statute or nautical miles)
• When do you have to stop at ILS hold line
• When can you expect turbulence
• Holding speeds
• Oxygen requirements (Part 91, 135)

Written Test

• Distance between aircraft to be considered a near miss
• Part 91 regulations
• Part 135 regulations
• Instrument AIM questions

Simulator

• Calm winds
• Single pilot
• Raw data, no flight director
• Basic air work- climbs, turns
• ILS into KPIE landing south
• Break out about 300 feet
• End of simulator
  

Comments

• Have to pay your own way to the interview, keep you receipts Avantair will reimburse you if you are hired, up to $250.
• Hotels that give discounts if you tell them you are with Avantair:
• Holiday Inn Select, Clearwater (pretty close and they will drive you to the HQ), Radisson, St. Pete