About this product
An airline flight is a dispatch release, a list of broken parts that may still fly, an engine, a performance number and a taxi route across runways. Know how each one fails.
Air Carrier Operations for the Airline Pilot is the second book in the Airline Transport Pilot Ground Knowledge series. It explains the air carrier operations part of the airline transport pilot certification training program (ATP-CTP): fitness for duty, communications, checklists, operational control and dispatch, the minimum equipment list, ground operations and runway safety, turbine engines and thrust reversers, performance and weight and balance, automation, and navigation and warning systems. It is written in plain American English, with the reasoning behind every rule.
It is written by an airline captain, examiner and Chief Flight Instructor, and it is built on the free FAA material you already know: 14 CFR, advisory circular 61-138A, the Airman Certification Standards, the FAA handbooks and the Aeronautical Information Manual. Where a statement is regulation, FAA guidance, conventional teaching or this book's own reading, it says so.
What is inside
- 97 original figures, each showing one idea: the cabin altitude clock, the readback loop, the dispatch release, the MEL calendar, the hold-short line, the thrust reading, the lowest takeoff limit, the mode annunciator, the TCAS and TAWS ladder.
- Worked examples with the arithmetic shown, on a fictional jet transport, the MR-200, so the numbers are consistent from chapter to chapter and with Book 1.
- 150 original questions with explained answers, 15 in each chapter. The answers say why the tempting wrong option is wrong.
- Competencies built in. Each chapter has a Competency link box, an On the line scenario for a new first officer and a Think like an assessor section: what a check airman looks and listens for.
- Short cases from investigating boards, told without naming any operator or aircraft type, and each tied to the habit it teaches.
Ten chapters: physiology and fitness for duty; communications; checklist philosophy and procedures; operational control and dispatch; the minimum equipment list and configuration deviation list; ground operations and runway safety; turbine engines, thrust reversers and ice protection; transport performance and weight and balance; automation and flightpath management; and navigation and warning systems.
For pilots taking an ATP-CTP, new first officers, flight instructors, and anyone who wants to understand how an airline flight is run. It can be read on its own; Book 1 covers aerodynamics and weather, and Book 3 professionalism, crew resource management, safety and regulations.
A general educational guide, not an operational document. It does not replace the approved ATP-CTP course, the airplane flight manual, your operator's manuals or the FAA publications, and it is not endorsed by or affiliated with the FAA. It is not the FAA knowledge test question bank: every question was written for this book, and no result on any test is promised.
Book 2 of 3 in the Airline Transport Pilot Ground Knowledge series.
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