Southwest Airlines App Opens THIS THURSDAY (April 9th) — Here’s What You Need to Do Before You Click Submit Your Resume Has to Do TWO Things Most pilots focus only on making their resume error-free. That’s table stakes. The real bar is whether it stands out in a stack of hundreds of equally qualified applicants. Error-free gets you in the pile. A well-crafted, strategically formatted resume gets you the interview call. If yours looks like everyone else’s, it will be treated like everyone else’s. Audit Your Logbook — Now, Not Later Your logbook is a legal document that recruiters and HR teams will scrutinize. Before you submit: ∙ Verify your totals are accurate and consistent across every column ∙ Look for entries that could raise red flags — unusual gaps, inconsistent endorsements, hours that don’t add up ∙ Your logbook must match your resume. If your resume says 3,500 TT and your logbook shows 3,412, that’s a problem you don’t want to explain in an interview. Cross-Check Your PRD Pull your Pilot Records Database information and go through it line by line. Your training history and job history in the PRD must align with both your resume and your application. Discrepancies between these three sources — even innocent ones — can create doubt about your credibility. Southwest’s HR team will be looking at all of it. Be Ready for the Follow-Up Email Getting past initial screening isn’t the finish line — it’s the starting line. Be prepared to receive a supplemental data request, which will include: 3 Letters of Recommendation — and not from your best friend who flies Cessnas on weekends. These should come from people you have actually flown with: a Captain, a Chief Pilot, a Check Airman, a former supervisor. Someone who can speak directly and credibly to your performance in the cockpit and your professionalism as a crew member. Start identifying and reaching out to those people now, before you need them in 48 hours. Southwest is one of the most competitive applications in the industry right now. The pilots who get interviews aren’t necessarily the most qualified on paper — they’re the ones who treated this process like the professional pursuit it is.

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What would you do if CA was full scale deflection on the GS at 1000ft? Please clarify, What does it mean “CA”? Thanks.

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