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Interview Experiences From Piedmont Airlines Cadet Program Pilot Interviews :

  1. 1.  (Sep 24, 2024) The company flies you in the day before. You take hotel shuttle. Next morning you check out 8am and meet in the lobby. 9am the presentation began. There were six of us. I was #4 and the interview took about 45minutes. The study is accurate. The interview is very laid back and they really do want you to succeed. Go over jepp plates, how to find runway length if shooting ILS approach on the jeopardy airport diagram. It was very basic ppl weather questions. Microburst, thunderstorms,... Continue reading this interview experience..

  2. 2.  (May 14, 2024) Everything that previous interviewees mentioned in this website is accurate. During the day of the interview, they had a quick presentation about Piedmont and we were selected to go in order of who leaves Charlotte first. Interview process was fairly simple, they check your logbook. Make sure you’re good And then they proceeded with HR (Tell me more about yourself, tell me how you handled a dispute in the cockpit, what does CRM mean to you?). In the technical portion, I was asked... Continue reading this interview experience..

Study Guide Questions for Your Piedmont Airlines Cadet Program Interview:

  1. 1. (May 15, 2024) What are standard IFR fuel requirements?
    • enough to get to your destination, alternate, 45 minutes
  2. 2. (Nov 07, 2024) What does Vgsi not coincident mean?
    • visual aids (PAPIs, VASIs) don't have the same glidepath as your ILS
  3. 3. (Sep 26, 2024) Do you have any checkride failures?
  4. 4. (Apr 30, 2024) What sets you apart from other candidates?
  5. 5. (Sep 26, 2024) What are the three types of structural icing and which is the most dangerous?
    • Clear, rime, mixed clear is the most dangerous
  6. 6. (May 31, 2024) What are the stages of a thunderstorm?
    • Cumulus, mature, dissipating.
    • Cumulus (updrafts), mature (up and downdrafts, rain at the surface), dissipating (downdrafts)
  7. 7. (Nov 07, 2024) What are your goals?
    • To find a good company to fly for and stick with them all the way through
  8. 8. (May 15, 2024) How many hours do you typically do in a month?
    • 60
    • 50
    • 80 -100
  9. 9. (Oct 03, 2024) How are you building your time?
    • Flight instructing at a University
  10. 10. (Mar 03, 2025) What is a microburst?
    • it is 6000FMP and less that 15 mins and 1.5 miles

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