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GENERAL

In the following pages, you will find feedback from previous Qatar
Airways Pilot Interview Candidates. Please remember that each
interview may be a little different, however, this document may serve as
a useful tool in order to get a general idea of what to expect on your
Interview.

NOTICE
This guide is intended to be a useful tool in helping you prepare for
your upcoming interview with Qatar Airways.
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determinations and evaluations. Paramount does not have any
control or influence over who will, and who will not, be hired.
We wish you the best of luck in your interview.

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Qatar Airways Interview

The Qatar Airways Interview will last two days

Day 1

There will be a short introduction about the company that will be followed by a check of all
relevant papers (Licenses, Logbooks, etc.).

Day 1 - Psychological Test
There will be a short written psychological test.

Day 1 - Aviation Test
This is a multiple answer written test in Aviation Knowledge. There will be operational and basic
aviation knowledge questions in this test. Good Study Material for this test can be found by
reviewing:
a. The book Ace The Technical Pilot Interview written by Gary Bristow and currently
published by The McGraw Hill Company.
b. The Qatar Civil Aviation Regulations. Go to http://www.caa.gov.qa/english/Law-a-
new.html or CLICK HERE to access the regulations website.

Day 1 - Pilot Interview
Every pilot will then be interview by a board of 3 management pilots.

This interview will include general questions such as:
Questions will be asked about the pilots previous career till present.
Why does the pilot want to join Qatar Airways?
What is the pilots family situation?
The panel expects some questions from the candidate as well.

The interview will also include specific technical questions about the aircraft that you are
currently flying. The interview panel will know enough about the airplane that you currently fly
in order to ask you specific questions and so be forewarned!

You will be informed if you have passed the first day of the interview and if you will be invited to
Day 2 of the Interview.

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Day 1 Typical Interview Questions

Please find below a compilation of questions asked during past Interviews. Please note that there
is no guarantee that these exact questions will be present during your interview. However, these
questions should serve as a guide for the kind of questions to expect.


Day 1 Aviation Knowledge Interview Questions

1. How does a Pressure Altimeter works?

2. Give definition of QNH, QFE?
Answer: Take the advertised elevation in feet and divide by 30 (or 27 if you prefer) and
that gives you a number to add to the QFE in hPa to give a pretty good approximation
of the QNH. Look out for different units of measurements - obvious but important!

QFE + hPa = QNH
Airport elevation / 30 = hPa to add

3. How does weather affect altimeter settings?
Answer: Temperature affects the indicated altitude. The effect is not as drastic as pressure
changes. Altimeters in small aircraft have no simple means to compensate for non-
standard temperature. The effect is similar to high and low pressure changes. When
going from low temperature to higher temperature, the aircraft will be higher than
the indicated altitude. When going from high temperature to low, the aircraft will be
lower than indicated on the altimeter. The pilot should keep this in mind if terrain
clearance is a factor in the flight.

MEMORY AID: From high to low (pressure or temperature) LOOK OUT BELOW.

4. Be able to answer altimeter instrument errors?

5. Static variation in pitot tube causes an error and is called?

6. How do you calculate True Altitude at an airport?

7. Airport QNH is 1008hPa, you land with 1013hPa set in altimeter, what altitude will
your altimeter indicate?
Answer: Airport ALT will be given for that question; take 27 or 30ft/hPa for calculation,
easy)

8. What is ISA temperature at FL100?

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Answer: -5OC (Alt x -2 +15 = ISA temp)

9. During climb out when would you switch the altimeter setting to standard?
Answer: Transition Altitude

10. What happens to your Indicated Airspeed if the pitot tube is blocked at the start of a
descent?
Answer: It decreases

11. What happens to your Indicated Airspeed if the static vent is blocked at the start of a
climb?
Answer: It decreases


12. What happens to your Indicated Airspeed (IAS) if you descent at a constant True Air
Speed (TAS)?
Answer: It increases

13. What happens to your TAS if you climb at a constant Indicated Airspeed?
Answer: It increases

14. What happens to your Mach Number (MN) if you climb at a constant calibrated
airspeed or Indicated Airspeed?
Answer: Mach Number will Increase

15. What happens to your indicated airspeed and TAS if you fly at a constant IAS into a
warmer area?
Answer: TAS Increases, IAS constant

16. What happens to Mach Number or IAS when climbing through an isothermal layer at
constant true airspeed?
Answer: Mach Number remains Constant, IAS decreases

17. What happens to Local Speed of Sound (LSS) or TAS if one increases or the other
decreases?

18. You descend with constant Mach Number. Which speed limit will be exceeded?
(VMO,MMO,VNE or VS)

19. VNE is the speed which?
Answer: Should never be exceeded


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20. What effect has an increase in temperature and altitude (airport) to VMCG?
Answer: VMCG decreases because engine thrust decreases

21. Reduced thrust should not be used when?
Answer: Windshear is reported or to be expected

22. If you lose 10kts Groundspeed during approach, what will happen to your VS?
Answer: Decrease by 50ft

23. When do you use Anti-Ice?

24. Rime ICE accumulation on airframe? (Accumulates slow or fast? Spreads out slow or
fast?)

25. In what type of cloud can icing virtually ruled out?
Answer: Cirrus

26. Which cloud type is most easily detected by the weather radar?
Answer: Cumulus

27. What is the Temperature at Troposphere (Poles, Equator)?
Answer: Poles -45O Celsius, Equator -75O Celsius.

28. With ISA Standards what is the Temp at 10,000 Feet?
Answer: -5O Celsius

29. Altocumulus castellanus are indication of?
Answer: Mid-atmospheric instability

30. Where is Hail most encountered?
Answer: Cumulonimbus clouds

31. Which cloud type is classified as a MEDIUM LEVEL cloud?
Answer: Altostratus (alto medium)

32. What is the shortest hold over time weather condition?
Answer: Freezing rain

33. What type of cloud can be expected with virga?

34. Decode a TAF and what will the wind be at you ETA?


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35. A TAF will be given with ETA for LSZH (Zurich) and asks for the lowest cloud base for
ETA at LSZH.

36. What does the meaning PROB30 means?
Answer:: Probability 30%

37. How is windshear detected?

38. Windshear is a movement of air in which direction and duration?
Answer: Short duration/horizontal movement of air

39. What effect does windshear have during an approach for landing?

40. What is the recovery technique for windshear?

41. Takeoff in windshear?

42. Sequence of speeds on take off?
Answer: V1, Vr, Vmcg, V2

43. What are ICAO holding speeds?

44. Holding pattern entries?

45. Are standard holding with left or right turns?\
Answer: Right

46. What is squawk code for hijacking?
Answer: 7500

47. Communication Failure on IFR flight while in VMC, what is your action?
Answer: Squawk 7600 and continue according flight plan.

48. What is squawk code for threat in an airplane?
Answer: 7700

49. What is the code for communication failure?
Answer: 7600

50. Bomb on board the airplane and what do you do?

51. Emergency Descent First Action?

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52. If engine fails in cruise flight which procedure you use?

Answer: Driftdown

53. If you loose the runway while circling what actions do you take?
Answer: Missed Approach procedure.

54. Lost visual during circling on downwind leg, what is your action?
Answer: Missed Approach Procedure

55. How long to evacuate an airplane with more than 44 seats?

56. Actions At V1 with an Engine Failure?
ASDA is?
TODA is?
VMCA is?
ISA is?

57. Definition of STOPWAY?
Answer: The length of an unprepared surface at the end of the runway in the direction of
the takeoff that is capable of supporting an aircraft if the aircraft has to be stoped
during a takeoff run.

58. Definition of Clearway?
Answer: The length of an obstacle free area at the end of the runway in the direction of the
takeoff, with a minimum dimension of 75m either side of the extended runway
centerline that is under the control of the licensed authority.

59. What is ETOPS?

60. What are the various ETOPS Categories?

61. What is Lapse Rate?

62. What is Climb Gradient?

63. The wake turbulence of a heavy weight aircraft will last for approximately how long?
(1 minute, 3 minutes, 5 minutes or 30 seconds?)

64. What is your rate of descent on a 3degree ILS when your GS reads 100kt?
Answer: 500ft/min (of course Groundspeed X 5)

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65. Mode C Transmits which information to ATC?
Answer: ALT, FL, 1013hpa, information.

66. Which altitude information shown to an ATC controller indicates that the aircraft is
flying at its cleared/assigned altitude?
Answer: 300 ft

67. ILS CAT 1 Minimums, RVR, MDA?

68. What are the different segments on a Takeoff?

69. 1st Segments stops at?
Answer: Gear up

70. What is 3rd segment of a Climb?

71. How many % to be considered a Contaminated Runway?

72. NOTAMS, and how are they distributed?

73. What is Dutch Roll?

74. Describe the spiral stability of the A-320 in Normal Law?

75. What happens if you move C.G from forward to aft position?

76. Effect of forward and aft C.G on performance stability and fuel?

77. Lift Formula is?
Answer: L = 1 tv 2 CL S
2

78. Which device increase the stalling AOA?
Answer: Slats

79. How is gliding distance affected by the weight of the aircraft?

80. What is the effect of speed brakes and aileron simultaneous input?

81. During flare aircraft will float, why?

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82. If you are climbing at 270 Knots / .80M and then you increase your speed to 290
Knots / .80M are you going to reach the .80M earlier or later?

83. If in a turn and try to maintain the same speed and altitude, what do you have to do?
Answer: Increase Power

84. Be ready to discuss MCRIT + Swept Back Wings.

85. The boundary layer is a layer in which?

86. Roll is the movement of an aircraft along the?
Answer: Longitudinal axis

87. Spoilers deployed have the following effect..
Answer: The CLmax decreases and Drag coefficient increases

88. What does DER/MORA stand for?

89. What are the CAT I minimums?
Answer: RVR 550m and DH200

90. What is the minimum obstruction clearance for IFR flights in mountainous regions?
Answer: Within 8km of the estimated position of the aircraft 2,000ft above the highest
obstacle

91. What is the definition of the speed Vr?
Answer: At Vr the pilot should start to rotate the airplane

92. What is case if the GPWS alerts with DONT SINK, DONT SINK?

93. What happens to the stall speed Vs if the weight of aircraft decrease?
Answer: Decreases

94. MTOM and MLM, what type of limitations are these?

95. Alert messages (lights) that require crew attention but not immediate action are what
color?
Answer: Amber

96. TCAS is based upon the operation of?
Answer: Aircraft Transponder


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97. The fix distance markings on a runway are at what distance?

98. Red pyrotechnic or red flares from aircraft to tower means?

99. What is loop or pigtail in an impulse line?

100. What is maintenance planning?

101. How does control valves work?

102. What is a Barrette?

103. When does the Hold over time starts? At the beginning of: First step? Second step?Or
at the end of First step or second step?

104. Discuss Low visibility operations.

105. What is a CLASS B Fire?

106. What is the FIRST indication of hyperventilation?
Answer: Overbreathing / excessive breathing

107. What does the Blood transport?
Answer: Hemoglobin

108. What are the consequences of fatigue and sleeplessness?
Answer: Reduced performance

109. The actual Take-Off Mass is equivalent to:
Answer: Dry Operating Mass plus take-off fuel and the traffic load

110. If a pitot source is blocked in an ASI, and the drain hole is blocked, but the static
source is open, what will happen?
Answer: Airspeed Indicator behaves like an altimeter

111. The error in altimeter readings caused by the variation of the static pressure near the
source is known as..
Answer: Position pressure error

112. 90 knots is equal to how many km/hr?

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113. The temperature at FL 110 is -5OC. What will the temperature be at FL 50 if the ICAO
standard lapse rate is applied?
Answer: +7OC

114. What is the lowest visibility forecast at ETA Zurich 1430 UTC? LSZH 260900Z
261019 20018G30KT 9999 RA SCT050 BKN080 TEMPO 1215 23012KT 6000 DZ
BKN015 BKN030 BECMG 1518 23020G35KT 4000 RA OVC010=
Answer: 6km

115. Relative humidity depends on:
Answer: Moisture content and temperature of the air

116. During initiation of a turn with speedbrakes extended, the roll spoiler function
induces a spoiler deflection on which wing?
Answer: On the lowered wing only

117. Which of the following statements is correct?
Answer: A stopway means an area beyond the take off runway, able to support the
aeroplane during an aborted take off

118. What are the minimum and maximum values of V1?
Answer: VMCG, VR

119. Which of the following is true with regard to VMCA (air minimum control speed)?
Answer: Straight flight cannot be maintained below VMCA, when the critical engine has
failed

120. A DME is located at Mean Sea Level. An aircraft passing vertically above the station at
flight level FL 360 will obtain a DME range of approximately:
Answer: 6 NM

121. Fair weather cumulus often is an indication of
Answer: Turbulence at and below the cloud level

122. The presence of ice pellets at the surface is evidence that
Answer: Freezing rain occurs at a higher altitude.

123. What s the definition of virga?
Answer: Precipitation that falls from a cloud but evaporates before reaching the ground.

124. Local QNH is 1023, when you pass and set QNE , your altitude will what? (Increase,
decrease, stable)

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125. What s the significance of lenticular clouds?
Answer: Mountain waves

126. Inbound course for holding is 053 with Standard Turn. You are approaching fix on a
heading of 233, what is the entry procedure?

127. When does the optimum altitude increase?

128. The Mach number depends on what?

129. Mode C 2000 meaning?
Answer: Flying over areas without transponder requirement

130. What is the ISA standard?
Answer: 15OC and 1013 HPa

131. At FL100 temperature is 15OC. What is the ground temperature?

132. When does the second segment climb begin?

133. You have been intercepted, the frequency for communication is....
Answer: 121.5 / 243

134. Traffic is approaching from right. Which light will you see?
Answer: Steady red

135. Rapid decompression ,first action.
Answer: Oxygen

136. GPWS is a system operates within which altitudes?

137. Define Approach climb gradient.

138. The navigation lights must be capable of being seen within how many degrees?
Answer: 110 degrees

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Day 1 Human Resources and Chief Pilot Interview Questions

1. Tell us about yourself?

2. Tell us about your family?

3. Does your wife approve your job in Qatar?

4. Why Qatar Airways?

5. What do you know about Qatar Airways?

6. Tell us about current fleet types?

7. Number of airplanes?

8. Name some of the destinations Qatar flies to?

9. Milestones of the company?

10. Qatar Airways CEO Name?

11. What do you expect from Qatar Airways?

12. What can you bring to the company?

13. How long time do you need to notify your company?

14. Do you currently have a bond with your company?

15. Why should we hire you instead of other applicants?

16. Why do you want to leave your current job?

17. Tell us 10 good/bad things about you?

18. What makes a good/bad Captain/First Officer? Why

19. Have you flown with a demanding Captain? Give an Example

20. Give us an example you gave positive feedback to the crew and why?

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21. Give us an example when you had made a decision initially and then at the advice of somebody
else you changed that decision?

22. Give us an example where you had to adapt to somebody's work rules?

23. You are 1 hour out of LHR and your First Officer gets out of his seat and pulls out his prayer
rug. What would be your reaction? (Remember your audience!!)

24. Your First Officer shows up without a tie, and refuses to wear one, what would you do?

25. Give us an example where you disagreed with a decision?

26. Give us an example where politely but forcefully had to tell somebody to do something?

27. Any time a Captain or First Officer didn't agree with you?

28. Have you had someone to misinterpreting you? Give an Example

29. On take off and while on high speed you realize your tires are deflated. What do you do? How
does it affect the breaking performance?

30. If you have a bomb in the airplane what do you do?

31. Do you have a bomb immediate action in your company?

32. What is the definition of safe take off distance?

33. What are the five major elements in a emergency descent?

34. What is MNPS Altitude Limits?

35. How many degrees of Pitch would you fly with an engine failure right after take off? What
would you see on the PFD?

36. What is you company procedures for .......examples will be given....and what do you think about
it?

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Day 1 Human Resources and Chief Pilot Interview Questions (If Type Rated on QA Fleet)

1. Briefly explain the Electrical System?

2. The Hydraulic System?

3. Procedures for missed approach 2 engine?

4. Procedures for missed approach single engine?

5. Terrain Evasion maneuver?

6. Evasion maneuver for windshear? Limitations

7. What does the take over button on the side stick do on Airbus?

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Day 2
If successful on Day 1 of the interview, you will be invited for a simulator assessment the next day.
Qatar Airways will use B-777 or A-330 simulator. It does not matter which aircraft you are currently
flying. For example if you are currently flying the B-777, you may still be assessed on the A-330 and
vice versa.

Day 2 - Simulator Assessment

The simulator assessment generally speaking will be used to assess the pilots basic flying abilities in a
Transport Category Aircraft. It will consist of specific items such as:
Do a briefing about Evacuation
It will consist of a normal Takeoff.
Steep Turns, Climbs, Descents so you get a feel of the airplane, but most of the time they will
immediate vector you for an ILS to land
Engine Failure at 1,500ft
Visual or vectors for an ILS followed by a Go-Around.
Approach to a landing.
APU Fire
Takeoff with Engine Failure at V1. The exercise stops when safely airborne.
Fire on the aircraft. Ask for Memory Items. Evacuation

We wish you the Best of Luck and Success on your upcoming

Interview!!

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