How is for me trying to get in an airline? Here you go!

Trying to get in an airline requires patience as well. I can tell you now because I have had one experience already. The next day I recieved my license I sent my curriculum vitae to a cargo mexican airline called AeroUnion, and about a month later they called me to do an exam. There we go! Mexico City, june ninth, 11:00am. Many young guys around the offices, we were all pilots, we all wanted to get a job, that’s why we were there. The chief pilot of AeroUnion gives us a little speech saying that we have two hours to complete the exam, that between that day and the day before around seventy pilots were presenting the exam. From those seventy pilots or so they have to select just ten, those ten will be the ten highest grades. Those ten will go to an english exam and a flight simulator test. From those ten they need to choose just five pilots. Those five pilots will be supposed to take ground school of the Airbus A300 and the three highest grades will go to the simulator and then start flying on the company. That was what the Captain said, it put even more challenge in that air that we were breathing. He said good luck to us and the exam started.

Tuesday I call to the company and they tell me that I passed the first exam. Wow I couldn’t believe it, really. And they said I had to be the next day at Mexico City again in order to do the english exam. Oh my, I flew to Guadalajara the day before and the next day I had to be in Mexico City again. No way, I had to go. I took a flight to Mexico City the next morning and at one o’ clock I was ready for the exam. The exam was good. We had to listen an ATIS (Automatic Terminal Information Service) and write it down on a paper. Then I had to listen to an IFR clearance and copied it as well. Then some ATC instructions which I had to write them down too. Then I had a little chat with a pilot of the company, he asked why I wanted to work there, etcetera.

The next week was time for the flight simulator test. It was good. A Frasca 122 which was a twin-engine static flight simulator. I did a departure procedure from Mexico City International Airport, then fly direct to a VOR called San Mateo, hold in SMO, then fly an arrival procedure and land with an ILS. It was good, I liked it.

Days later they call us. They need another interview with every one of the ten applicants. I go there and after a little while they call me, it was my turn. The interview was with the chief pilot and another pilot of the company. They asked me things about myself, my career, and why I wanted to work for AeroUnion. I was kind of nervous in the interview, obviously, but I hope I did it all right.

This week they were supposed to call every one of us applicants to tell us if we continue to the next phase, or if we were rejected, and they called indeed but to tell us that they won't hire anyone for at least a month and we have to wait for the answer for a month or so. We are all anxious for the answer, but believe me: I’m so concient that whatever their answer will be that is going to be the best that can happen to me. If I pass to the next phase that will be great, if I not, I now have the experience of how is a competition in order to get a job and I didn’t get bad grades at all. If it results I don’t get in Aerounion hope to have more opportunities in my life, I’m sure this one wouldn’t be the only one.

And that’s it for now. For those who don’t know how this worked (just as me a little more than a month ago) now we know. And as always we need to be patient and keep studying and working hard. We must never give up. Let’s keep hope alive and keep going. Thanks for those who have posted comments. Once I know the answer of Aerounion I will let you know it in the blog. Take care!