AMERICAN AIRLINES CADET ACADEMY | MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE | HOW I GOT ACCEPTED
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2024
- Hey guys! 😀
In this video I share with you all the details of my personal experience applying and going through the interviewing process of the American Airlines Cadet Academy.
I got accepted a month ago, (August 2019) and since I did a lot of research on youtube to prepare myself for both the video and face to face interview, I wanted to share with you my experience to give back, so I hope it can help you as well.
I went through everything in detail as possible 😃
If you find this video useful, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to watch for more informative videos I'll be posting in the future regarding my journey to obtain my ATP License here in the U.S. 🇺🇸👩🏻✈️.
Thank you for watching this video and for your support! 😀
-Desiree
✈️ The website where I did my online application was:
www.aacadetacademy.com/CadetAc...
✈️ The website to train for the Pilot Aptitude Test:
pilotaptitudetest.com
✅ My Social Media Accounts:
❇️ INSTA:
🔅 @desireercortez
🔅 @desireecortezfit
❇️ Website:
🔅 www.littlebeastyfit.com
❇️ Email:
🔅 desiree.rcortez86@gmail.com - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Ty for all the information. 😊
Gracias por este video. Me ayudaste muchísimo. Ahorita tengo 35 años y estoy preparando para nuestra Marina/Navy. Nada es cierto especialmente a mi edad. I started to research becoming a pilot through AA because if my stepfather. And I found you. Again thank you for your videos, thank you for being you. Felicitaciones por el próximo bebé. Creo que, ya? No? Y tengo que decir tu inglés es re bien! Aprendí español cuando vivía en Argentina. Que dios te bendiga. Chau Chau desde Dallas, Tx.
Amen! I just had my second interview. Congrats! Keep it up, God is good :)
Awesome 😃 how did it go?
@@desireercortez I got accepted :)
@@aarongarcia2004 that’s awesome 🤩 congratulations 🎊 happy for you. Which school location did you choose?
Hi, thank you for sharing all the infos about the cadet program in your videos. Should I add a profile picture to my cadet application?
Hi Desiree, can you give an update on where you are now in your progress? Also, given what you know now would you recommend getting a four year aviation degree and then applying to the cadet program or is it truly for beginners. Thank you for being an inspiration and responding to comments. It is so helpful.
Hey Michelle 😃🤗 thank you for your kindness! It makes me happy to know my videos help and inspire others because that is the reason why I made them. Training in an accelerated program like the cadet academy is intense! Is non stop studying and getting everything done ✅ on time. I’m currently a little bit more than half way through the Commercial License, after that I’ll do CFI, CFII and Multiengine rating and done 🙌🤩. For me the hardest thing has been being a new mother and starting the academy with a 6 months old baby hasn’t been easy at all. He’s 15months now, but if I can do it, others without that huge responsibility can do it too! 💯 🙌. You don’t have to do your aviation degree to apply, so I think is better if you apply and do that already and then you can start your degree 🤗, that way as you fly you can continue to accumulate hours throughout the process of getting your degree as well. I will share everything when I’m done with school, anything that can help! 🙌
Hi! Did they check your credit when you applied for the loan? Do you need to work for American Eagle or can you work for a United Express carrier? And is this doable with a full time job?
As a foreigner,Do I need to have a green card or do I just need a work visa. And if I only need a work visa how long will you recommend the duration is for?
Hello how is everything going? Are you still going to training? Do you know if they had any male hair-guidelines?
Thank you 👏🏾🌴🌞
You’re very welcome 😊
Can you tell me within the first months, how long were the classes? Not flight times. In class learning. How many hours were those?
Very proud of a Latin woman pilot, muy muy orgulloso de una dama latina piloto saludos de piloto a piloto desde 🇵🇷
Muchísimas gracias ☺️
Is it possible to get accepted as international student and not holding any permanent resident or a green card?
This video was so helpful, thank you so much for all this info!! Two questions.. Do you have to pay any of your training or supplies once you get into de program? Another question, did you have any experience or pilot knowledge? Or did you get you PPL before applying as a cadet? Thank you again
Martin Berezowski Martin Berezowski Hi Martin! 😃 thank you so much! it makes me happy to know that sharing my experience while applying to this program can help. Regarding your questions, once I got accepted, I was sent all the information to apply for a student loan. I was originally applying with a scholarship, but since I didn’t get it, I’ll have to ask the bank for the student loan. The AA partner school that you choose to study with will help with that, and I believe that the loan will cover all the training expenses and supplies. The cost of the program varies depending on the partner school you choose, and if you’ll be adding housing the cost can be higher:
www.aacadetacademy.com/CadetAcademy/program_costs/1
Also, regarding previous experience, no, I didn’t have any previous flight certification like the PP, I only did my Discovery Flight ✈️ with a local instructor to make sure flying was for me, and about 7 hours in a Learjet 45 flight simulator with my dad who works as a flight instructor for CAE.
The program doesn’t require any previous experience 😊 that’s the cool part, that they can train you from zero to Hero, but it would be nice to at least do the discovery flight to make sure flying is something you really want to do. 😃
Desiree Cortez Again thank you so much for your information and time!! I am hispanic and I feel so good to know your story and motivates me to give it a chance, I am afraid of applying for the AA cadet program and fail getting into it. But I will try. Tomorrow I will schedule my Admission Flight with ATP to see how I feel behind the commands. Thank you again. Have a nice one!!
Martin Berezowski if this is your true passion and a true desire of your heart, don’t let fear of failure stop you from pursuing what you want. It is better to try and fail than not trying at all and then wonder for the rest of your life “what if”.... I was afraid to fail too, but I also thought, if I fail, I’ll be one step closer because I’ll know more about the recruiting process and prepare better to apply again somewhere else, like with other airlines as Southwest, Delta, United, etc... 😊 there are so many opportunities within aviation right now that it is worth it to give it a try.
I was also afraid for the fact of being Hispanic, specially because is an industry mainly white dominated in the U.S, but if you’re confident and you know you’re going to do great no matter where you come from there’s no need to be afraid because of that either. If your English is good, and you’re willing to pay the price to study and learn whatever is necessary you’ll succeed 😃👏🙌💫. Good luck! Let me know how it goes.
Desiree Cortez thank you, you are really helping me just with your words and experience. I will let you know of course! I couldn’t do the admission flight at ATP because I don’t have a college degree, just got out of high school. But I already schedule a discovery flight with a local flight school. Let’s see how it goes. Thank you again I’ll try emailing you later and keep you up to date.
Hey Desiree, I'm so happy for you!! I also want to become an AA pilot, I'm also from south America. I have 2 questions for you, if you don't mind helping me out. 1. How long did it take for AA to respond to your online application, I'm currently about to finish high school and I really don't want to wait months before they finally respond. 2. How exactly do you get your grades translated, should I talk to the director of my school? Thank you, and again so happy for you!
Bart Hiccups hi Bart 😊 thank you so much! And thank you for watching my video 😃 Here are my answers: 1) It took them about a month to answer, but I applied originally with a CAE women in flight scholarship, so I don’t know if it takes that long or maybe even less if you’re applying without a scholarship. 2) I used this online translation service: USCTS, they’re really good, and very professional. I also used them to translate all my necessary documents when I applied for my U.S citizenship, hope that helps and good luck 😊🙌👏:
www.uscts.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAtf_tBRDtARIsAIbAKe1ZSZJZTihTUSrSp6wERcwQKdWvY2oKUY6I2TZa-aum40hdC_aTFbUaAoTREALw_wcB
How much will the scholarship help
@@desireercortez Thank you for the help! I am currently in the process of enrolling for the KLM cadet program, if that doesn't work out I'll go for AA and maybe we'll be colleagues one day😂. Again thank you, and all the best!
Travel Sugar Hi 😊 I Applied to the AA Academy through the CAE Women in Flight scholarship, however, I didn’t get the scholarship, but I got accepted in the AA Academy. I’ll have to pay for my flight school. Prices ranges depending on the AA partner flight school you choose:
www.aacadetacademy.com/CadetAcademy/program_costs/1
They help you with all the paper work and application to apply for the student loan to the bank as well.
Bart Hiccups Bart Hiccups that would be awesome 😁. I can’t wait to start my program, in the meantime, I’ve doing my ground school online at home. All the best with your KLM application 🎉🎉
I'm really glad I clicked on your video. I'm planning to apply to AACA before the end of this year and I'm really worried about a lot of things. I have a high school diploma from another country and English is my second language.
Fahad G I’m so glad to know this video could help you in any way 😊. Good luck during your application! 🙌🤩 You can translate your high school diploma to English, and if you’re English is good you’ll be okay 👌. All you’ll need is a valid passport and the ability to work and study in the U.S
You should be fine if you have the right documents and good English
You’re adorable!!
🥰❤️ awe thank you!
Hey just wondering how long after your application do they initially begin to contact you?
she said about a month but nowadays, in these circumstances i thing it will take longer
Hey Desiree! Do I have to live on base? I have a daughter and can move locations with her (anywhere) but can't live on base away from her.
Please help :/
I had to rent my own apartment close to the school to be able to live with my family, the apartments provided by the program you have to share with other students and you can’t have family members living with you.
Hi did you go to college first (example:Embry-Riddle ) and then go into the program
Valentin Vazquez hi Valentin 😊 I have a Bachelor’s in Education and an Associate degree in Electromechanical engineering. But I did that before deciding to become a pilot, I decided to pursue a degree in aviation only a year ago but I never thought about it before. When I went to my in person interview there were applicants with a high school diploma and also bachelors.
@@desireercortez do you think i would be at a disadvantage knowing nothing about planes? Im graduating with a bachelors in biology in may and just decided i want to be a pilot today. I really know absolutely nothing about planes right now so im wondering if those people with only a high school degree ready knew stuff about planes
green Caulfield it is not a disadvantage at all. This program is designed to train you from Zero to Hero. They’ll teach you absolutely everything you need to know to become a successful and well skilled pilot. I saw the first Cadet who graduated and is working for Envoy, and he has a MBA, so the type of degree background doesn’t matter. I don’t know everything and I haven’t start the program yet until July 10th this year, so what I’m doing is just reading basic Private Pilot theory to have an idea already about the topics I’ll be learning the first couple of weeks but even I wrote the school and they told me they’ll teach everything during the course. 😊
@@desireercortez great news thank you so much!
green Caulfield you’re welcome 😊🙌✈️
Do you know how much GPA is a factor? College gpa that is
No, I’m not sure. But a good GPA can never go wrong ☺️
Can you tell us about eligibility criteria?!
AkanSHA SinHA hi 😃 that’s a very good question. This is the website of the academy where they describe the qualities they’re looking for in a pilot:
www.aacadetacademy.com/CadetAcademy/Index
When I went to the in person interview in Dallas, I met applicants with different backgrounds, but we all had something in common:
✅Love and passion for Aviation, specially flying
✅Age 18 and up +
✅The ability to study and work in the U.S without restrictions
✅A valid Passport
Regarding background, the minimum is to have a high school diploma, there were some guys there with only that and they did great. Other applicants had bachelor’s degrees, or a private pilot license already as well. I think the ones who only have a high school diploma can start in the academy and along the way start a bachelors degree of their choice to be able to eventually work for major airlines or be elegible to become captains.
Hope that helps 😃👍
I have a few questions regarding college education requirements to become a pilot.. do you have any college education? Does a college education on top of a AA cadetship program helpful to land a job? And is the AA Cadet academy enough to become a pilot? High school junior over here trying to have my parents be proud of me while they are still alive hope to get an answer thanks in advance.
Hi 😃. You need a high school diploma to apply. That’s the minimum. The AACA is enough to become a pilot and complete all the required ratings, however, according to interviews and conversations I’ve had with other pilots, if you only have a high school diploma and you complete all your pilot ratings to work for an airline, you can land a job with a regional airline, but get stuck in there because you can only eventually become captain and apply to work for a major airline if you hold both your ATP ratings and a bachelors degree. But don’t take only my word for it, if you know pilots or people in aviation ask around and I’m sure they’ll give you more details 😃👍
Desiree Cortez thank you that’s really helpful.. that’s the only thing is that I don’t know too many pilots and my dream of being one is slowly fading away.
@@fleeswervinn7111 Hi! I also got accepted into the AACA. I had my interview back in August and even the interviewer clarified in the interview that you do not need a college degree to work at American Airlines or United Airlines. Delta is the only one that still requires one. It is nice to have one as a backup but not required to go to those major airlines. Don't lose hope and I hope knowing this helps you go forward if college is simply not for you or you don't have to money to dedicate towards it. I do want to point out though that since you will not have a college degree on your AACA application work towards putting good high school grades on your application. Good Luck!
Jennifer Moreira thanks for the info 👍
Hello!😁 I have applied to the American Airlines cadet academy today and I was wondering how long after applying online did you hear from them for the video interview?
It took a month for me but with everything is going on nowadays I’m not sure. How did it go?
Hey! How’d it go?
Desiree why do you want to become a pilot?
I want to travel the world with my family 🙌😍. Plus I like the challenge of learning something new
How do you plan to pay for it?
maranatha dadet AA gives the cadets they select a unique code to apply for a custom student loan to complete this program. But students can use grant scholarships or use part of their own money as well if they don’t want to ask for the full loan amount.
Is they provide any loan
For international students
Yes, as long as you meet the eligibility requirements 😊 m.th-cam.com/video/fmTRDSOtp4o/w-d-xo.html
How long did it take you to hear back?
Hi! It took about 2 months 🙂
Hi! about 2 weeks after the in person interview 😃
Hello mam i am from india will i be accepted ?
m.th-cam.com/video/fmTRDSOtp4o/w-d-xo.html If you meet the eligibility requirements yes you can.
Hello
I just have a small question
If we get selected in the program
Does American airlines offer a Letter of intent (LOI) And does it offer a job guarantee?
Thank you for reading
It would be great if you would reply
Hi! A job guarantee isn’t offered. You have to prove yourself studying and working hard during your school and getting your ratings. We are offered a job interview with one of the regional carriers of AA after completing all the required hours to ATP, but it’s up to you to prove you have mastered the required knowledge and are qualified eventually for a position as a first officer.
@@desireercortez Thank you so much for your patience in answering my question and which flying school in this cadet program is preferred by you?
What is the total cost in that couse??
$100,000 💰
Should also be supportive of Affirmative Action hiring practices…
Hi! what does that mean? 😊
You went to college and doing flight training? All im hearing is $$$$
I had 2 college degrees but I completed them in my birth country Venezuela in public universities and pilot training here in the USA. While it is expensive to go to college and become a pilot in the US, if it’s something you’re passionated about it is worth it as it is a high paying satisfying career 😊
You have to be in your 20’s and have $100,000 to part with for a job with no guarantees.
Is it possible to get accepted as international student and not holding any permanent resident or a green card?
Hi! 🙂 this is a good question. You do need your green card or permanent resident card at least that allows you to legally live and work in the USA.