Product Description

Advance your career with this dynamic tool for acing the technical pilot interview...Let an experienced airline pilot help you succeed on the Technical Pilot Interview. This one-of-a-kind study tool asks the right questions so you'll know the right answers. Open it and start learning what you need to know in order to get a powerful edge over the competition - at every stage of your piloting career. This unique study guide helps you: get to know material likely to be asked on your interview; practice with almost one thousand exam-style questions - complete with answers; build confidence, skills, and knowledge; and, focus your study on what you need to know.Can you answer these questions? If you were loading an aircraft to obtain maximum range, would you load it with a forward or aft center of gravity? Why does an aircraft climb as high as possible? What does an aircraft descend quicker when it's lighter? What is a fail operational autopilot/landing system? What is an assumed/flexible temperature? Open this study guide for: answers to almost 1000 questions you may be asked during the technical interview; more than 50 illustrations to clarify key essential points; comprehensive coverage ranging from light aircraft to heavy jet operations; a convenient quick-find, cross-referenced presentation; and, material that has global application.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7592 in Books
• Published on: 2002-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 346 pages

From the Back Cover
ADVANCE YOUR CAREER WITH THIS DYNAMIC TOOL FOR ACING THE TECHNICAL PILOT INTERVIEW...

Let an experienced airline pilot help you succeed on the Technical Pilot Interview. This one-of-a-kind study tool asks the right questions so you'll know the right answers. Open it and start learning what you need to know in order to get a powerful edge over the competition--at every stage of your piloting career.

This unique study guide helps you:
* Get to know material likely to be asked on your interview
* Practice with almost one thousand exam-style questions--complete with answers
* Build confidence, skills, and knowledge
* Focus your study on what you need to know

Can you answer these questions?
* If you were loading an aircraft to obtain maximum range, would you load it with a forward or aft center of gravity?
* Why does an aircraft climb as high as possible?
* What does an aircraft descend quicker when it's lighter?
* What is a fail operational autopilot/landing system?
* What is an assumed/flexible temperature?

OPEN THIS STUDY GUIDE FOR:
* Answers to almost 1000 questions you may be asked during the technical interview
* More than 50 illustrations to clarify key essential points
* Comprehensive coverage ranging from light aircraft to heavy jet operations
* A convenient quick-find, cross-referenced presentation
* Material that has global application

About the Author
GARY V. BRISTOW (Surrey, England) is an airline pilot. His own interviewing experiences made him realize how valuable a book such as this would be in advancing a pilot's career.

Customer Reviews

Nice idea, good presentation, shame about the content!
There is great potential in a book like this... we have all got to the stage where our technical knowledge is a bit fuzzy, and there's an interview coming up. Even those who kept their ATPL theory notes will be loathe to reach for them, so this handy-sized memory-jog should be just the thing to refresh the memory.

And, actually, it HAS refreshed my memory. I've found it pretty useful. The questions are well laid out, in a sensible order, and with some pleasant-looking diagrams. So I'm happy with the questions. Some of the answers, on the other hand, are a bit sketchy.

Now, I don't know the author, but the back cover implies that he is an 'experienced airline pilot', and I don't doubt that he's a very good one. However, some of the answers he gives to his own questions in this book are ambiguous, some are dubious, and some are just plain wrong.

For instance, the formula for lift is given in the book (page 4) as:

1/2R + V^2 + S + Cl
Where:
R = Density
V^2 = TAS squared
S = Wing span area
Cl = Coefficient of lift.

Even if we were to ignore 'Wing span area' (by which he can be presumed to mean 'Wing plan area'), the formula is incorrect. (Replace the '+' symbols with 'x' and you're pretty much there.)

Pages 13-14 see some very confused ideas about tail control-surfaces, moments and arms.

I could go on.

Despite the answers being fairly untrustworthy, this is a useful book, just to get the old grey matter going. If you're approaching an interview, try to find something similar. If you can't find something similar, buy this BUT remember - the questions are more use than the answers!

An extremely disappointing read...
This should be a terrific book - providing a single source of reference for the would-be airline employee. Sadly, it simply doesn't deliver.

Peppered with technical inaccuracies (some of them horribly glaring), very imprecise or even misleading explanations, and shockingly inaccurate diagrams, it should leave the able student simply disappointed. Sadly, I suspect that many readers will be aspiring pilots cramming for interviews, and they will emerge from their reading confused and with false information.

Some of this is down to simply inept writing - the author uses vague words in a world of precision, confuses terms, and lacks the essential ability to get difficult concepts across in a straightforward manner. Poor or absent research, and the author's assumption that he knows what he is talking about, is to blame elsewhere. Custom and practice within the aviation industry of dumbing down some concepts to make them manageable, blithely accepted by the author either because he doesn't want to buck the trend or can't get to grips, himself, with the truth causes more disappointment for the expert reader.

Finally, there has clearly been no effective effort to proof-read. From basic errors of grammar, punctuation, and spelling, to the publication of straightforwardly inaccurate explanations, indicates that this book has neither been written nor edited properly.

As an aviation professional, now somewhat involved in writing technical material, I was very disappointed indeed by this book.

Interview Material
If you are going for am airline interview as a pilot, then this is the book for you, finding it hard to struggle through Handling the Big Jets ?? Then buy this cos all the info you need and have forgotten since ATPL days is here in a clear and concise format..... fantastic