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Airline Pilot Theory and Careers Podcast - Conversations about airline pilot theory, aircraft accidents and airline pilot selection. www.getstripes.co
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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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Episode Outline: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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Episode Outline: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?
Aircraft Windshear. Windshear and microburst phenomenon. Windshear hazard to aircraft, aircraft recovery. Accident - Delta 191
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Episode Outline:
00:00 - Intro
04:00 - Microbursts
14:16 - Predictive and Reactive Windshear
22:13 - Prevention
28:20 - Delta 191
Airline Pilot Sleep and Fatigue. Sleep as a skill. Risks of fatigue. Accident - Colgan Flight 3407.
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Episode Outline:
00:00 - Intro
00:50 - Why Sleep and Fatigue
09:44 - Sleep in Society
15:08 - Conditions for Sleep
18:15 - Circadian Rhythm
20:39 - Rules and Regulation, Rostering and Commuting
25:49 - Sleep and Fatigue in Practice
32:10 - Apollo 11
34:14 - Colgan Flight 3407
46:57 - Ending
Airline Jet Engines. Airline pilot theory and jet engine operation. Accident - British Airways 09, Jakarta Incident, "all four engines have failed".
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Episode Outline:
00:00 - Introduction
00:26 - Axial Flow and Bypass size
01:14 - Principle of Jet Power
02:25 - History, Whittle and War
06:30 - Centrifugal Engine Evolution
07:52 - Jet Engine Technical Description
10:42 - Components
10:59 - Compressors
14:32 - Combustion Chamber
16:20 - Turbine
18:53 - Summary of Airflow and Engineering
20:02 - Pilots Point of View
24:56 - Jet Engines as Hazards
26:19 - Systems
29:15 - Engine Failure
31:58 - British Airways 09
50:08 - Outro