most of the time..

people fail during the Personality TEST...

if you consider the English(VERBAL understanding) difficult, uyou are probably not fit to be a pilot............... the mian aim of that is to see whehter can you EXTRACT THE CORRECT INFORMATION FROM A GIVEN TEXT... if you failed to understand it... means... you're really not suitable as a pilot......

in other words, the English(VERBAL Test) is to test your ability to understand a GIVEN text(situation).............which is an IMPORTANT SKILL

sorry mate.. those question don't really require you to think much...... if your level is up there already.... you can finish all the questions with some extra time to spare...............sorry lah bro.. not that i want to say that your english is bad....... i'm just pointing out the truth................... BTW...... you only have to answer them by Selecting: 1)true 2)false 3)not given(or something like that)  ...

it's either you know, or you don't know................

PERSONALITY, fail because you are not the type of person whom they are looking for... maybe too hot-headed, too arrogant.... not honest.. etc,etc...

If you ask me, im not ENTIRELY happy with my current job. Weird flying hours, away from home, short rest periods and long duty times. It is no longer enjoyable like last time where you get to spend long days at nightstop stations, or long off days to cater to your hobby's whims. It is now ...almost like driving a bus, only thing is, our buses are a little bit more complicated than just gear clutches and RPM dials. I dont mind being away from home for longer periods of time, enough so that i can safely say i've explored the nightstop station myself. Just a little habit in me, that once i arrived at a new nightstop station, you wont see me in the hotel, i'll be exploring the city! But what exploring can i do if we arrive there with barely enough rest priod to recover from duty, only to depart back home the next day? Classic example is the current Paris Charles DeGaulle nightstop, which had been shortened to a single day stay only, thanks to the increased frequency of the flights there. It's embarassing to tell your friends that you have visited Paris, but you had gone nowhere but within the confines of your hotel room! Me? I could care less, most if not all the time, i would embark back out of the hotel to Disneyland Paris, or Champ Elysees.

Off days at base (aka KL) is a commodity preciously rare to pilots nowadays as airlines trimmed their workforce numbers while increasing flight frequencies. During my 737 years, my leave have been denied 5 years in a row, they basically open the leave system out of courtesy, coz short of manpower. I finally manage to take a proper leave and vacation once i moved up to 777.

So, yes, im not ENTIRELY happy with my job at the moment. Granted, there are those who love flying, hence they dont mind more hectic working schedules and such. I'd rather have A LIFE, than just ordering fuel at the despatch center and looking at NOTAM and METAR/TAF documents. I dont want flying to be my one and ONLY life.