MALAYSIA AIRLINES AND AIRASIA CADET PILOT PROGRAMME PREPARATION 2018/19

MALAYSIA AIRLINES AND AIRASIA CADET PILOT PROGRAMME PREPARATION 2018/19 By  Feeq

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EXPECTED;

-November_December 2018 (MAB)

-January_March 2019 (AirAsia Berhad)

INTRODUCTION

a.Malaysia Airlines
Credits;An and some resources

-Since MAB is demanding numerous number of pilots,it is performing 2 intakes in a year as there are lack in number of pilots which results in the cancellation of flights.

The problem is that there are no pilots on standby for any flights thus it is more difficult in this way.MAB is still on the brink of rising to its stability so it will take time until 2020 to meet the standard competency among other airlines and serve the airline as the number one national carrier again.

This is the first year _2018 after 7 years of no Abintio cadet intake specifically opened to the Public.This year will be the first year that MAB be hosting this cadet pilot programme in the objection of recruiting more pilots in the future.

This year the number of applicants that applied to  MAB  is about 2000 people while in AirAsia the number of applicants applied are 11,000 people.Only 400 cadets passed all the stages.Unlike MAB the number of applicants that pass all the stages are unknown because we didn’t heard any news from MAB HR Team.But in my opinion,only like 40-50 cadets passed.

The stages for cadet pilot intake for MAB consists of 5 stages which is Written exam,interview,psychometric,psychomotor,and last but not least medical checkup.I think that it is not that hard to pass the written exam provided that u are well prepared for the kind of questions that will be asked.You will need to sit for 3 papers separately for 30-45 minutes each paper is about 30 questions which is ENGLISH,MATHS(IQ TEST) AND PHYSICS

  

I suggest to you,doing a lot of practices that involves in NUMERICAL REASONINGS for the IQ TEST as they include a lot of basic mathematical problem solving and some aptitude test to be done.You can find those by googling “Numerical Reasonings”

Here are the website link for the whole guide: https://visnua320.wordpress.com/malaysia-airlines-cadet-pilot-2018/

And here's the link to a recycled written exam paper that were used everytime MAB conduct exam:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kPY1RJ0174BL8t_zjQFsFfl9hEakwn3D

If u have any problems please do contact:

Jaja MAB HR : nurhariezah.abdjamal@malaysiaairlines.com

Hairul Effendy Hamdan MAB HR: hairuleffendy.hamdan@malaysiaairlines.com

UPDATED ON THE STAGES

Stage 1- WRITTEN EXAM
First and foremost please do take note that in mathematics its the most *hardest*.Everyone wasnt able to answer within 30 minutes sebab time is *very limited*,plus congnitive questions  so past years wont come out as they will ask questions that are *cognitive* related such as:
~apples+banana+grape=?
triangle ~pattern,determine the next one
-given these lines,what shape will u get from these?

There will *no be precise answer*,u need to take the closest digit to the actual number or in other words; tembak the most close answer.

Second hard is physics,please do alot of calculations thru all those past years sbb there is little theory

Third of all,english is the easiest.Being that,it only needs some good comprehension skills

Conclusion,I dont know what to say but the thing is its mostly about your IQ not on based strong foundation.Nevertheless,the luckiest of us will get chosen as i believe "no one" ever gets the *time* and aren't *prepared*

Stage 2- INTERVIEW

1. Explain theory of flight
2.why u left your job
3. What’s the scrap life of an aircraft
4. Weather and effect
5. Explain Hydraulics Briefly
6. What is fail safe system?
7. Using your aviation knowledge how are you going to benefit it during flying
8. How to start an a/c
9. Tell us about ata chapter 100
10. Aircraft major zone 100-800 (+900)
11.letter checks
12. How to differentiate boeing and airbus
13.how do you handle the situation if the instrument or the aircraft shutdown for 10 second.
14. Etops + edto
15. What is human factor?
16. In your opinion, what are the aspects AirAsia should improve on?
17. List 10 items in the cockpit
18. Aa is ordering neo and ceo type airbus. What is neo and ceo and their differences?
19. Jet A1 and their characteristic.
20. Robots and AI will definitely effect the pilots job and the aviation industry. It's just a matter of time. Lets say at that time you're a pilot, what will you do?
My questions
21. Tell me about yourself
22. differences between GE,RR and PW
23. Seats on 737,A330,A350
24.CEO of Malaysia Airlines
25.Whos group CEO of Malaysia Airlines
26.Whos Izham Ismail
Guys did my interview today, i guess i would share a little bit on what they asked me.
27.What is relative humidity
28.What is visibility
29. how do you measure visibility
30.what are the criteria's of a VFR flight
31. list ten instruments you can find in the aircraft

Honestly speaking they could just ask you any question based on your background. So my tips is lead your interview how you want it to be. When you enter the room pls shake their hands b4 sitting down, look at their eye when speaking, if you dont know the answers just say you dont know. If you fake it they WILL KNOW. Theres no right or wrong answers, just honest answers. Good luck everybody. All the best👍

Stage 3 - PSYCHOMETRIC
many people will fail in this stage, because it’s very hard. 5 level in this stage, and level 5 is the hardest. You can’t practise online because this stage is unique. No sample online. English and maths will be asked. Try your very best in this level. During my time, 6 people failed this stage. Since it’s an online test, you can do it at home.

Stage 4 - PSYCHOMOTOR
this stage can also fail people. Have to take off, bank, anticipate engine failure, ascend, and land. All on your own, captain just help with engine. Even the flaps you have to control. The captain will guide you. Basically have to follow the fd. While flying the Capt will ask math questions and you have to answer him while maintaining flight. If you don’t answer him, he’ll be really angry. A candidate did this and immediately failed during my time. He’ll just ask 1 question. Here, you have to impress him with your flying skills and you will pass.

b.AirAsia Berhad

-Meanwhile in AA the number of pilots are growing rapidly as it recruits large amount of cadet pilot annually ranging from between 100-300 people.These new cadet pilots will be trained at different approved training organisations and they will be bound for perhaps new fleets for the A320.AirAsia offers a good salary income for new pilots and senior captains thus people prefer working for AirAsia rather than MAB.

Here are the website link for the whole guide: https://visnua320.wordpress.com/airasia-cadet-pilot-interview/

WHAT MUST I DO TO PREPARE?

“It’s a do or die scenario”

The stages for the cadet pilot intakes aren’t that easy but with a lil bit of early preparation,that would have help you build better foundation before answering any challenging tasks given by the airliners itself.

3 things to bear in mind for its preparation 1 month prior to intake;

-WRITTEN EXAM

-INTERVIEW

-PSYCHOMETRIC

You have to make preparation 1 month before the real cadet pilot application intake regardless of whether your status in in progress or your still waiting for a reply or you may get rejected or whatsoever.The thing here is to prepare earlier because the stages comes very quick and you need to be prepared at all times.Such that,once you done your stage 1,the next stage will be announce as soon as possible depending on the recruitment team because there is this one time whereas stage1 results are just out and by next week the stage2 announcement is already out.

You must first identify your weaknesses,if you had already failed before,you should have already know what are your weaknesses and what needs to be improved.For example in stage 1,the written test for mathematics was so damn hard for you and you knew that before this that the calculations wasn’t that easy and quite hard.So in order to overcome this,just make sure that you know your weaknesses and start working out on the weaknesses 1 month prior to the opening intake of the cadet pilot.Pilots must be able to be prepared at all times!! You musn’t take this for granted if you are serious about being a pilot!

For the interview,you must be able to prepare yourself a lot of questions to be asked to your very self.Just imagine that you are the interviewer what would u ask?Or what kind of question to expect?Basically it is based on luck.If you are lucky,the interviewer will only ask you general questions but if u weren’t,they will ask you technical ones and this technical questions,you can get from various of resources.It is just that u need to have the effort to make a research regarding on whatever technical question may be given in the future.Another tips is to make sure that your answer to the question are unique as possible.Unique here means that your answer isn’t the same like every people would have answer.For example.Why do u wanna be  a pilot?Find the best answer to this question.THINK FOR YOURSELF.The most unique answer,that can astonish the interviewer panels