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SkyWest Airlines pilot interview questions and selection process

How SkyWest Airlines selects pilots: 7 selection stages and 13 interview questions from candidates' accounts. Use them to practise; they are examples, not official answers.

Selection stages

  1. Online application
  2. Introductions and conversational opener
  3. Paperwork and logbook verification (CFI cert, medical, FCC permit, passport)
  4. Flight time review incl. 30/60/90/180/365-day totals
  5. HR / TMAAT questions
  6. Technical: high-altitude aero, swept wings, turbofans, systems, weather, Jepp charts, Part 121 approach criteria
  7. Continuous CRM scenario from pushback to debrief (e.g. SFO-PDX)

By rank

Interview questions

Personal and CV

  1. What is your total time, PIC, multi, night and instrument, and your last 30/60/90/365-day totals? (First officer)
  2. Explain your prior checkride failure (First officer)

Motivation

  1. How did you get started in aviation? (First officer)

Technical

  1. What is coffin corner? (First officer)
  2. What is Mach tuck? (First officer)

Situational

  1. Scenario: fly SFO to PDX and talk through the flight (First officer)

For practice only: general examples, not official answers. Pilot Jobs International accepts no responsibility for how they are used; prepare your own answers in your own words.

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