Atlas Air

Interview Process

(updated: August 2024)

Please note these are notified as feedback from previous applicants, these may change at any time. Always be prepared!

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Prior to the interview you will be sent a written form to fill out which in the past has contained the questions which you can download a PDF here

HR/Panel Interview

Please note these are notified as feedback from previous applicants, these may change at any time. Always be prepared!
  1. Tell us about your career history
  2. Why Atlas?
  3. What is your Fleet preference?
  4. Tell us about a time you did something to help passengers out.
  5. Tell us what your training captain would say about you (your weakness)
  6. What is your strength and weakness?
  7. How was your command upgrade journey?
  8. What was your greatest achievement in your career to date?
  9. Who is Michael Steen?
  10. Who is Michael Chowdry?
  11. All the standard questions on training history. Any fails. Any training block repeats.

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Techincal Interview

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  1. Talk me through a walk around on your aircraft
  2. V1 definition. Relationship with Vmcg.
  3. What does a wet runway do to V1. Why is wet screen height different?
  4. What is a speci and what triggers it? (Special, weather phenomena, changes in wind speed/direction/cloud/visibility)
  5. Read out speci line in plain English start to finish inc. remarks
  6. What is SLP226?
  7. What is SKC?
  8. Runway length on the 10-9 chart, can that be used in its entirety for take-off?
  9. What is TWIP?
  10. What is 02/203 mean on the NOTAM?
  11. SID: What altitude do you select when you depart on the JERES and MCRAY transition?
  12. Jetstream strength
  13. Expected turbulence on your route
  14. What altitude and what type of turbulence expected
  15. STAR: Highest terrain? What sector MSA are you in?
  16. sked to hold at SCROW 20 minutes before arrival. What would you do as a pilot to help everyone out?
  17. ILS: What is the missed approach procedure? Is that a standard holding pattern? When do you start your timer? Holding pattern speeds?
  18. Tell me about SLOP
  19. Tell me about CRM / TEM
  20. What techniques do you use to execute CRM/TEM. Tell me a time you applied that.
  21. What height clearance does MOCA provide?
  22. What are the characteristics of an Oceanic crossing/ Transcontinental crossing?
  23. What do you find at the 180 longitude
  24. Who shares responsibility with the pic? What duties do dispatchers have?
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