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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.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
By C. Andrews
Format:Paperback
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!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Northern Sky
Format:Paperback
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.
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.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Simon
Format:Paperback
There's no denying there are inaccuracies, but the fact is, this book is often used by recruiters to formulate their technical questions and exam papers, so it is very useful. Much better than ploughing through your dusty ATPL manuals.
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cannot rate this one either
Cannot rate this one as my son must have ordered this. He is a pilot and must be thinking of changing airlines!
Published 5 months ago by John Nash
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Aspiring Pilots Take Note
You need this book if you've been lucky enough to secure an interview. To turn up without sharp technical knowledge is a wasted opportunity. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Mr. T. J. Hunjan
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Useful for quick reference, but beware!
Handy quick reference book for the Bristol Database generation. Useful even when the technical interview is a dim and distant memory. Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2011 by RB
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Tech Pilot Interview
I've lent it to a young pilot so haven't had a chance to read it yet. Apparently generally accurate but with some clangers; However excellent for broadening areas for revision, and... Read more
Published on 17 Dec 2010 by R. Mcdonald
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Great if you're switched on!
This book poses a lot of questions that certainly get the grey matter working again, but do be careful to not the answers as gospel as there are quite a few mistakes! Read more
Published on 9 Oct 2010 by 7four7
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Excellent
Recommend this to anyone not only to prepare for an interview but to keep your ATPL knowledge current. A must have for all pilots.
Published on 7 Oct 2010 by 777GA
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Concise and informative
A great source of reference knowledge for interviews - provides all the "trivial persuits" answers to those little horrors that might get thrown at you. Read more
Published on 30 Dec 2005 by D. Martin
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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 ?? Read more
Published on 31 Oct 2003 by Mark McGinn
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