Interview preparation
They already have your hours. The interview is the rest.
AIR's prep is the structure of a real airline interview: what is asked, what a useful answer sounds like, and how the simulator is graded. It is not a script to recite.
01Before they call
Read your own application out loud. Every date, every airplane, every reason you left an employer. If you stumble, the panel will too. Know the airline's fleet, bases, and what they have said in public about hiring. You are not expected to leak their training manual.
02The phone screen
It is short on purpose. Totals, eligibility to work, medical, and whether you can start when they need you. Answer the question that was asked. A three-minute story about your first solo is how a good candidate gets marked 'talks past the point.'
03The panel
Technical questions and temperament sit in the same hour. They want to hear how you brief, how you talk about a mistake, and whether you blame the airplane, the instructor, or the weather for something that was yours. Tell the truth in one paragraph. Then stop.
04The simulator
This is a crew exercise more than a stick-and-rudder contest. Fly the callouts they published, manage the automation you were shown, and say what you are doing. A perfect hand-flown approach with a silent cockpit still fails. So does a monologue while the airplane wanders.
05Afterward
Send nothing cute. If they ask for a document, send that document. If you do not hear back on the day you hoped, it is not a riddle. The desk can help you read a rejection when there is something in it to learn. Most of the time the note is just a note.