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Transcript:

00:00 Verbal Reasoning

03:27 Paper and Digital Manuals

10:31 How to Use

13:05 What is Included

16:29 Why have a Manual

20:32 MEL

27:59 SOPs

37:22 The Manuals Sat Next To You

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Accidents - Titan Airways Biocide Treatment. 

BA5390 (Pilot Sucked Out).

Further Reading:

First Light - Geoffrey Wellum (Wikipedia)

Fate Is the Hunter - Ernest K. Gann (Wikipedia)

TCAS - Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System. Airline mid-air collisions. How pilots avoid hitting other aircraft.

Accidents - Überlingen Mid-Air Collision and Linate Airport Disaster.

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00:00 Transcript Start

03:42 What Does TCAS Do

12:57 Why TCAS, History

16:40 Faults

23:25 Linate Airport Disaster 2001

25:23 Future

29:18 Uberlingen Mid-Air Collision

ILS Instrument Landing System. How an airline pilot uses an ILS, a technical description and ILS limitations. Accident - Korean Air Flight 801 in Guam.

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00:00 Transcript Start

03:42 Description 

09:35 Die Hard

10:23 Technical Description 

21:32 Manual Flight

26:22 Typical ILS

34:48 Korean Air Flight 801

Circling Approaches. Circling approach use and risks. Accident - Air China 129.

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00:00 Transcript Start

00:47 What is Circling

09:33 Why Bother

11:18 Circling vs Visual Approach

19:41 Workload and Task Sharing

25:46 Challenging Weather

34:30 Air China 129

Aircraft Landing Gear. Use and design. Landing gear failure. Accident LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16 - 767 Belly Landing

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00:00 Use and Problems

08:00 Large Landing Gear

12:48 Weight on Wheels Sensor

15:27 Walk Around

18:06 Nose Gear

22:18 Landing Gear Failures

24:46 Landing Gear Drag

26:55 Gear Limitations

31:27 Gear Pins

35:23 LOT Flight 16 Belly Landing

Airline Accident Sioux City United 232. A successful accident, an example of the positive effect CRM (Crew Resource Management). Accident analysis, history of CRM.  

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00:00 Transcript Start

09:39 Explosion

15:58 CRM History

21:00 Flight Controls

31:04 Communication

40:50 Disaster Plan

43:26 Jan Brown Senior

48:00 Denny Fitch

60:25 Japan Airlines 123

63:09 Phugoid

69:13 Landing

85:38 DHL Baghdad

87:51 Ending

Airline pilot selection processes general introduction. Airline selection as a risk exercise. Research, Replicate, Repeat. Evidence for competencies. Typical airline selection process, online and written applications, aptitude and maths testing, interview and group exercises, simulator assessments.

More Airline Pilot Selection episodes available including: Why do you want to be an Airline Pilot?

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Episode Outline:

00:00 - Intro

01:26 - Risk Assessment

07:24 - Research Replicate Repeat

33:38 - Online and Written Applications

41:14 - Aptitude, Maths, Interview and Group Exercises

49:19 - Simulator Assessments

52:31 - Anyone Can Pass

Altitude, altimetry and altimeters. Altitude as a concept. Barometric and radio altimetry. Accident - Aeroperú Flight 603, Dambusters.

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00:00 - Intro

01:24 - Altitude

04:33 - Pressure Altimetry 

21:13 - Radio Altimeters

30:20 - Aeroperú Flight 603

39:06 - Dambusters

Oxygen. Airline pilot theory, physiology of hypoxia, aircraft pressurisation, slow and rapid decompression, emergency descents and emergency oxygen systems. Accident - Helios Airways Flight 522.

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00:00 - Intro

01:18 - Physiology

11:44 - Cabin Pressurisation 

14:52 - Sams Experience of Slow Depressurisation

19:32 - Rapid Decompression

28:46 - Kalitta 66

36:28 - Emergency Descent

39:08 - Emergency Oxygen Systems

45:48 - Helios Airways 522

64:04 - Ending

Airline pilot selection, airline interviews. Interview question: ‘Why do you want to be an AIrline Pilot?’ Why do you want to work for us? Answering this question in written applications and interviews. Evidence vs emotion, answering by demonstrating competencies.

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Episode Outline:

00:00 - Intro

00:57 - Your Childhood Dreams?

03:14 - Evidence and Competencies

23:11 - Competency Based Answers

27:09 - Preparation

36:18 - Why are you an Airline Pilot?