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your flight time ?

500+ PIC JET
37
4%
500+ PIC JET 2 CREW
101
10%
500+ PIC TURBOPROP 2 CREW
154
16%
1000+ F/O JET/TURBOPROP 2 CREW
160
17%
Total Time 1500/2000
50
5%
2000/3000
106
11%
3000/ More
361
37%
 
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Have the calls gone out for the next couple of courses?
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Just got the call today for March start.
First applied Nov 2017
Contacted for video interview Sept 2018
In person end of Oct 2018
Received offer Feb 2019 for March 11th start.
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FighterPilot wrote: Thu Feb 14, 2019 1:34 pm Just got the call today for March start.
First applied Nov 2017
Contacted for video interview Sept 2018
In person end of Oct 2018
Received offer Feb 2019 for March 11th start.
Congratulations! Welcome.
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+1, - the welcome :P
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FighterPilot wrote: Thu Feb 14, 2019 1:34 pm Just got the call today for March start.
First applied Nov 2017
Contacted for video interview Sept 2018
In person end of Oct 2018
Received offer Feb 2019 for March 11th start.
Congrats.

What's your background/experience? If you don't mind sharing
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Gonzodriver wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:10 am
FighterPilot wrote: Thu Feb 14, 2019 1:34 pm Just got the call today for March start.
First applied Nov 2017
Contacted for video interview Sept 2018
In person end of Oct 2018
Received offer Feb 2019 for March 11th start.
Congrats.

What's your background/experience? If you don't mind sharing
Gonzo? still at 402 or you out?

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Outlaw58 wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:19 am
Gonzodriver wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:10 am
FighterPilot wrote: Thu Feb 14, 2019 1:34 pm Just got the call today for March start.
First applied Nov 2017
Contacted for video interview Sept 2018
In person end of Oct 2018
Received offer Feb 2019 for March 11th start.
Congrats.

What's your background/experience? If you don't mind sharing
Gonzo? still at 402 or you out?

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I'm still there. For now.
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Gonzodriver wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:10 am
FighterPilot wrote: Thu Feb 14, 2019 1:34 pm Just got the call today for March start.
First applied Nov 2017
Contacted for video interview Sept 2018
In person end of Oct 2018
Received offer Feb 2019 for March 11th start.
Congrats.

What's your background/experience? If you don't mind sharing
My username is unintentionally misleading. I’ve had it since flight training with aspirations of joining the military. No actual military experience.
Was in Air Cadets growing up
Aviation college deploma
4000+
1000hr 705 FO time
2000+ MPIC turbine time
Currently 703 Capt on a twin turbine.
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I found others timeline posts helpful so figured I would share mine.

Applied mid Nov 2018
Offered video interview end Nov
Video interview beginning of Dec
In-person interview 20 Dec
Job offer on 18 Jan for an 18 Feb start

Super professional process all the way through. Ultimately decided to go a different way. Military pilot with 3000hrs turboprop and jet.
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uke wrote: Sat Feb 16, 2019 11:38 am I found others timeline posts helpful so figured I would share mine.

Applied mid Nov 2018
Offered video interview end Nov
Video interview beginning of Dec
In-person interview 20 Dec
Job offer on 18 Jan for an 18 Feb start

Super professional process all the way through. Ultimately decided to go a different way. Military pilot with 3000hrs turboprop and jet.
Thank you! Enjoy the ride brother.

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Latest course was 50% Express (mostly Jazz). The rest was the usual split of WestJet, Military, Ex-pat, Porter, Sunwing, and Transat.
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Vanguard wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2019 2:37 am Question

First applied 2017. Received confirmation.

Updated application a few months ago but no word still or are they just behind applications.

4000hrs / 705 MPIC / Training


Should I resubmit application with their new portal or is it the same and just a new layout?
Vanguard,

Do you have post secondary? I know tons of 705 Captains with lots of time and work in training who haven’t heard a thing because they have no post secondary. AC is not currently interviewing OTS applicants who don’t have post secondary. I’ve seen them hire FO’a with no PIC time (other then the bare minimum you need for your ATPL) that have a degree etc... Unfortunetly experience is not what they value most right now.

My advice to anyone who is dead set on AC is to get some kind of post secondary education or go to an Express carrier. Lots of guys from there being hired with just high school and a couple years punched at an Express carrier.
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I'll echo that.

If you didn't finish your degree, or took a half baked community college course that went nowhere, put it on your resume 2 years undergrad studies at U of Wherever... or 1 year Local Tech Burnout Academy with honours... whatever, you can explain it in the room why you didn't finish, or why it's a work in progress... but it will possibly help get you in the room...

If you have nothing remotely post secondary, take a night school or correspondence university credit course... maybe in beginners French and tick that box off too... it's all in the points and while total time, PIC, and big airplanes all score, it's only a part of what they are looking at... we can argue whether that's right or not but it makes no difference... it is what it is...

I'm not even sure they are looking at it until it gets picked out by the system either... I suspect some HR AI program is picking out the applicants with the right credentials and buzz words from the other few thousand applicants, and then sending you on to the person who weeds through it from there...
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You can always sign up for online university courses and quit them after you get hired. A social justice or gender studies course will really get the HR ladies attention. :lol:
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landsky wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2019 2:46 pm
Vanguard wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2019 2:37 am Question

First applied 2017. Received confirmation.

Updated application a few months ago but no word still or are they just behind applications.

4000hrs / 705 MPIC / Training


Should I resubmit application with their new portal or is it the same and just a new layout?
Vanguard,

Do you have post secondary? I know tons of 705 Captains with lots of time and work in training who haven’t heard a thing because they have no post secondary. AC is not currently interviewing OTS applicants who don’t have post secondary. I’ve seen them hire FO’a with no PIC time (other then the bare minimum you need for your ATPL) that have a degree etc... Unfortunetly experience is not what they value most right now.

My advice to anyone who is dead set on AC is to get some kind of post secondary education or go to an Express carrier. Lots of guys from there being hired with just high school and a couple years punched at an Express carrier.
They hired a guy I worked with in January with no completed post secondary. But I have heard it's really important right now.
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Hello,

Query:

I applied in Oct’17, OTS. Received mail confirmation.

Keep updating my application. Current experience 6500 hrs with 6000 hrs on Jet aircraft, 705 , University degree in Aviation BUT NO PIC experience. I am under Command upgrade now.

I haven’t received any interview call from AC.

Is it because of NO PIC hours experience ?

Thanks in advance
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IFLY81 wrote: Mon Mar 04, 2019 9:03 am Hello,

Query:

I applied in Oct’17, OTS. Received mail confirmation.

Keep updating my application. Current experience 6500 hrs with 6000 hrs on Jet aircraft, 705 , University degree in Aviation BUT NO PIC experience. I am under Command upgrade now.

I haven’t received any interview call from AC.

Is it because of NO PIC hours experience ?

Thanks in advance
I'd guess that the lack of PIC, and lack of diversity in your background might be part of it.

6000+ hours without an upgrade is possibly a red flag.
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Thanks. I am under upgrade training now. Should I mention this in application ?
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It's a points system and PIC over 12500 lbs is one of the points categories. Or was when I applied. Being in upgrade training now might look good to a human but at your point a human probably isn't looking at your application yet.
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