Flight Training on American Application
Posted by Alternative_Welder41@reddit | flying | View on Reddit | 18 comments
Can anyone give me some insight on how the hell I'm supposed to fill out this American application? And don't just tell me to pay for an application review; I'm planning on it but I'd like to get everything filled out so they just have to help me clean it up instead of start from scratch.
The instructions at the top say to "Begin your employment history section with where and when you conducted your initial flight training and provide an uninterrupted employment history after that." but all of the drop down boxes are very much employment oriented and not really helpful when trying to fill out flight school info.
Do I need to list each certificate/rating separately? Do I start with PPL and work my way up? Employment history is usually in reverse chronological order so do I do my flight training in chronological and then switch to reverse chronological for my employment history part?
Why is this stuff not in the Flight Hours or the Certificates page? I can't be the only one who thinks this application is poorly done.
johnsonexe@reddit
make a document once of all your experience, then use ai or other tooling to automate filling out the application. i personally use simplify.jobs
chupchupandaway@reddit
Learn to do things for yourself. It will make you smarter.
johnsonexe@reddit
it’s filling out a job app 😭 it doesn’t require any brain power. it’s menial. otherwise i’d agree
chupchupandaway@reddit
If it doesn’t require a brain why can’t you do it yourself?
johnsonexe@reddit
bc i don’t want to sit there and fill out an app for 30 minutes? especially when mass applying. by all means waste your own time though.
chupchupandaway@reddit
By all means waste your mind.
Gabriel_Owners@reddit
This is why everyone recommends using an app review service. They know the specifics for each process.
hawker1172@reddit
🐑
Gabriel_Owners@reddit
I'm not the one on reddit asking for help filling out a job app.
LikenSlayer@reddit
Heard they intentionally make Applications a nuisance nowadays. So you'll be more motivated to stay 🤣🤣
ce402@reddit
Man, I remember having to fill out my entire employment history, period. And EVERY moving violation, ever. Including date, state, county, and adjudication.
Being in my mid-30s and having to remember my supervisor’s name and phone number from a job at Best Buy 20 years ago was almost as fun as having to remember what county in East Bumble-fuck Iowa I got a speeding ticket two decades prior.
KJ3040@reddit
The American Application is a quagmire and nightmare
DisplacedSandwiches@reddit
Has anyone else been unemployed while training? I’ve been working side jobs (cleaning, dogsitting) while I’ve been getting my ratings. Are airlines going to look poorly on that, should I have had a job this whole time too? I am grateful to have been financially supported by family during training, and I know that isn’t the reality for everyone but it’s been immensely helpful that I could focus on my studies these past few years without burning out.
sq_lp@reddit
Its been 4 years since I've applied anywhere, but back then, "full time flight training" was able to cover unemployment gaps.
The unemployment gap thing is mainly for background check stuff.
MyPilotInterview@reddit
I can help answer your questions. Don’t list each cert separately just each flight school and note what certs you competed (or worked on). I start with the oldest and work to newest. This isn’t on the flight hours page, probably because it’s easier for the developers to identify gaps in the employment history page, versus grabbing from two sources.
I don’t think any pilot application page is done well, and do agree this is to make it hard to do on purpose.
PresentComposer2259@reddit
I was told recently that companies are getting so many applicants that they are purposefully making their applications as difficult/long/frustrating as they can in order to weed out the ones who aren’t serious about that job.
Majestic-capybara@reddit
That honestly wouldn’t surprise me because they are all so bad that it must be intentional.
rFlyingTower@reddit
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Can anyone give me some insight on how the hell I'm supposed to fill out this American application? And don't just tell me to pay for an application review; I'm planning on it but I'd like to get everything filled out so they just have to help me clean it up instead of start from scratch.
The instructions at the top say to "Begin your employment history section with where and when you conducted your initial flight training and provide an uninterrupted employment history after that." but all of the drop down boxes are very much employment oriented and not really helpful when trying to fill out flight school info.
Do I need to list each certificate/rating separately? Do I start with PPL and work my way up? Employment history is usually in reverse chronological order so do I do my flight training in chronological and then switch to reverse chronological for my employment history part?
Why is this stuff not in the Flight Hours or the Certificates page? I can't be the only one who thinks this application is poorly done.
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