Spirit-Interview Gouge 2023
Updated: Mar 27, 2023
Contents:
Basic Spirit Company Questions:
Who is the company CEO?
What are the Breeze Values?
What is the size of the Fleet/Types of aircraft?
Where are our bases and where do you want to be based?
When did the company start and who started the company?
Where do we fly and any new routes?
Spirit HR questions:
Tell me about yourself;
Why did you start flying?
Best and Worst flying experiences?
Why Breeze?
What can you bring to Breeze as a pilot from your previous experiences
Why should we hire you at Breeze?
Where do we fly?
What would you change about your current job situation?
What do you do in your time off?
What is a personal weakness that you have worked on to improve your job performance?
Behavioral Questions:
The Captain smells like alcohol and mentions he went out over the layover, what do you do if you believe he is intoxicated or still under the influence?
The Captain will not put his seatbelt on during the approach, what do you do?
The cabin crew mention a passenger is being unruly, what do you do? what do you suggest?
The wind is stronger than the aircraft's crosswind ability, what do you do? can you continue the approach? do you land?
Tell me a time you were involved in a dispute between co-workers and how did you handle it/defuse it?
Tell us a time you helped out another department (or "acted as a bridge" between departments) at your current place of work?
Technical Questions:
Weather
You are given a METAR and TAF to decode and read
What does the A0/ $ mean on METAR?
How long is the TAF valid for?
What is a SPECI?
Are the winds True or Magnetic in the METAR/ATIS/TAF?
What do you think about the weather conditions?
Basic IFR
121 Rules for an alternate
What is the airspeed in class B?
Holding Speeds for USA
Jepp Chart decoding and questions
LAHSO, can you do it? when?
What is the spacing of runway centerline lighting and edge lighting?
One Engine Performance and Handling
One Engine Inoperative information regarding Critical Engine, Vmcg/Vmca and changes in to these speeds.
Know V speeds and what they are, made up off,
Systems knowledge
Know the systems of the aircraft you are currently flying including:
Electrical- AC/DC power, what makes the power, how is it converted, and battery knowledge,
Bleed: what is it used for and where does it come from?
Hydraulics: pressure, system components and redundancy.
Engine Knowledge
Describe a jet engine
What are the components of a jet engine?
What is the main theory of a jet engine?
What controls the Engines,
After the engine start, are the ignitors required?
What is a compressor stall?
Engine start failures and what are they? Hung, Hot, Low,
Advanced Aerodynamics
What is Mach Tuck?
What is Dutch roll?
What are the benefits of swept wings?
Describe the airflow around the wing,
What happens to the Center of Pressure as the aircraft approaches the stall?
Coffin Corner?
What effects stall speed?
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