Aaron
“Albie” Hagan has been helping aspiring airline pilots prepare for
interviews since 2002. A lifelong aviation enthusiast, Aaron started
flying at age 15 and currently flies for a major airline, serves as an
F-15C Instructor Pilot in the Florida Air National Guard, and is a
general aviation enthusiast. Aaron’s experience in the Air Force
included over two thousand seven hundred hours of flying the F-15 and
OV-10 aircraft. In 1991 Aaron served as a ground based forward air
controller during the Persian Gulf War. In 1992 he began flying the
F-15C, serving in Alaska and Europe before returning to Tyndall Air
Force Base in Panama City, Florida in 1998. In 1999 Aaron attended the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine and was certified as an aerospace physiologist, and spent the next three years teaching human factors to over 1500 military aviators from a wide cross section of backgrounds. In 2000 he was certified as a CRM instructor/facilitator by Crew Training International (CTI), where he was instrumental in helping develop courseware used by the F-15 community worldwide. This CRM experience has proven invaluable for many clients when faced with the unique and challenging Line Oriented Interview (LOI) currently in use at Southwest Airlines. Away from the cockpit, Aaron has had a long association with several beauty pageant systems. In 1995, he judged several of the Miss Alaska preliminaries in Anchorage, Alaska. Since that time, he has judged beauty pageants on both the state and national level across the Southeastern United States. By gaining experience on the other side of the interview table, Aaron has developed some very effective strategies to immediately develop and maintain rapport with interviewers. Aaron’s strategies for interview success have helped local political candidates, beauty pageant contestants, as well as scores of airline pilots. Hired by both JetBlue and FedEx Express in 2001, Aaron has gone through the interview process at both airlines and knows first hand the excitement and stress of preparing for the arduous airline interview process. Aaron is the proud father of three daughters, and has been happily married to the former Melissa Rogers for 15 years. Aaron is a 1987 graduate of Auburn University with a Bachelor of Science in Aviation Management. Aaron is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Air Command and Staff College. |