Pilots are highly-trained certified professionals with years of training. They are responsible for the course, crew, cargo, and passengers of the plane. Pilots may be recreationists, private pilots, charter, or commercial pilots.
The following sample will give you a quick start in your preparation for an interview as a pilot.
Airline Pilot
Job Interview Questions and Answers
Question: List your qualifications as a pilot.
Answer: Besides relevant college degree(s), pilots graduate from flying school and participate in annual additional training.
Question: What is the importance of proficiency in several languages for a pilot?
Answer: A private pilot may limit himself to knowledge of English good enough to understand control towers. Other pilots, being more publicly involved figures by necessity, greatly benefit from knowing more than one language.
Question: Pilots have many simultaneous responsibilities during the flight. What can you tell me about this?
Answer: Pilots navigate the flight, observe and direct the activities of the crew, check instruments, keep an eye on the weather, and monitor altitude and air traffic. Doing all these and more, often simultaneously, requires outstanding multi-tasking skills and power of concentration.
Question: How would you behave as the pilot of a plane during an emergency?
Answer: Describe first what your emotional response would be. It is important to demonstrate, preferably through examples, that you can maintain your poise during such events, and that you possess enough presence of mind to activate emergency procedures and delegate duties among crew members as necessary.
Question: Did you ever have to modify the flight course in the past?
Answer: Pilots are able to modify the course in flight, if this is dictated by internal or external conditions. This is not a small responsibility and needs careful coordination with control towers and scrupulous attention to detail.