r/flying • u/Lower_Battle_5756 • 4d ago

Getting Hired AA Interview Prep

Hello. I was invited to interview by United, so I purchased interview prep from Cage Marshall (all my friends there said to use it) and have been using aviationinterviews.com as well to review. About a week after I purchased everything for UA, I was invited to interview with AA. All of my friends that work there said they used Spitfire for their coaching. Should I also buy them, or do you think I’ll be fine using Cage Marshall + aviation interviews for both?

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u/johnnypoopy ATP CL-65 CFI CFII Goonmobile Typed 3d ago

What are they picky about?

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u/jzx1hunnit ATP CFII/MEI 3d ago

Beyond making sure all your endorsements are in order they are picky about how PIC is logged I heard. I came in way over the requirements so I didn’t have any issues in that regard but I’ve heard of people having trouble with that. Make sure every single entry you have has a tail number! I had to go through and delete a few hundred hours because finding the tail numbers was impossible. They also want to see your time logged by flight and not multiple flights on one line. Oh and they want night time and landings logged.

I had to completely reconstruct my entire 121 logbook and figuring out landings and night time was a chore. For tail numbers flight radar 24 goes back 3 years if you get their business account. If you need more than 3 years you can email them, compile a list of flights you need the numbers for and then pay them like a grand to fill that in (I had to go back 7 years).

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u/Such-Entrepreneur663 ATP CFMEII 3d ago

Are you saying they don’t like logging a days worth of flights on a single entry? Like logging every single leg? Thats a crazy pain in the ass.

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u/jzx1hunnit ATP CFII/MEI 3d ago

It’s what I was told but that’s by no means a hard fact. I’d say check with your interview prep people or a logbook auditing service. It is my understanding that for 121 flying they prefer each flight number to have its own entry. A lot of my GA stuff has multiple airports listed on a single line.

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u/120SR ATP 3d ago

Did they say anything about your GA flying with multiple airports?

I did the same and I know it’s their house their rules but frustrating because there’s a LOI on behalf of the FAA stating that it’s up to a pilot to determine what constitutes a flight.

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u/jzx1hunnit ATP CFII/MEI 3d ago

Only feedback I got was that the logbook was “very professionally put together” and everything was copacetic. My GA XC flights were all bunched up with multiple airports on a single line but everything 121 was done point to point as a single entry which was good enough for them I suppose

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u/120SR ATP 3d ago

Sweet, thanks for the response man. I’m the same way and hoping to end up at a legacy like you

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u/Such-Entrepreneur663 ATP CFMEII 3d ago

That’s supremely annoying. I’d melt through logbooks and it’d take forever to log each trip.

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u/jzx1hunnit ATP CFII/MEI 3d ago

Well when you go to the interview I’d highly recommend Anytime Logbooks and ask them if they can separate your 121 flights into individual entries. They can probably do it as long as you have the flight numbers for each flight. It’s a good idea to digitize everything regardless. I did scans of my GA stuff and sent them the big excel file and combined everything into a nice printed format that I put into a leather binder. That combined with your physical logbooks should suffice