About this product
The first officer who speaks up, the report that becomes a change, the duty day that is legal but not safe, the logbook total that is not the count. Know the people and the rules around the airplane.
Professionalism, CRM, Safety and Regulations for the Airline Pilot is the third book in the Airline Transport Pilot Ground Knowledge series. It covers the leadership, crew resource management and safety culture part of the airline transport pilot certification training program (ATP-CTP), and the regulations an airline pilot works under: professionalism and leadership, crew resource management and threat and error management, voluntary safety programs and safety management systems, Parts 119 and 121, the flight, duty and rest rules of Part 117, and ATP eligibility, the restricted privileges and the contrasts with Part 135. 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 advisory circulars on crew resource management and safety programs, and the reports of the National Transportation Safety Board. Where a statement is regulation, FAA guidance, the board's finding, conventional teaching or this book's own reading, it says so.
What is inside
- 60 original figures, each showing one idea: the speak-up ladder, the authority gradient, the threat and error loop, the report-to-change path, the flight duty period tables, the clocks of an ATP's first year.
- Worked examples with the arithmetic shown: top-of-descent clocks, flight duty and extension tables, day and calendar-month counts, logbook totals with their caps.
- 150 original questions with explained answers: 15 in each of the six chapters and a 60-question mock end-of-course test across all three books. 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.
- Cases from the National Transportation Safety Board, told without naming any operator or aircraft type, and each tied to the habit or the rule it teaches.
- Back matter: glossary, a cross-reference of the Airman Certification Standards and AC 61-138A to all three books, the FAA references with editions and status, and an index.
Six chapters: professionalism and leadership; crew resource management and threat and error management; voluntary safety programs and safety management systems; Parts 119 and 121; Part 117, flight, duty and rest; and ATP eligibility, the restricted ATP and Part 135 contrasts.
For pilots taking an ATP-CTP, new first officers, flight instructors, and anyone who wants to understand how an airline crew works, learns and stays within the law. The six chapters stand on their own; the mock test draws on all three books (42 of its 60 questions are on Books 1 and 2: Aerodynamics and Weather for the Airline Pilot and Air Carrier Operations for the Airline Pilot).
A general educational guide, not an operational document and not legal advice. It does not replace the approved ATP-CTP course, 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. Regulations change; read the current text.
Book 3 of 3 in the Airline Transport Pilot Ground Knowledge series.
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