Technological advances in modem aircraft and their operation have prompted airline and regulatory authorities to look again at training methods. The importance of human factors and resource management as keys to flight safety, have focused attention on how to improve overall training effectiveness. This book is a comprehensive guide, offering new techniques of training, learning and teaching in the airline environment. It also outlines some of the challenges facing the modem airline pilot. Combining the teaching principles relevant to jet transport training, the book also looks at selection, skill acquisition, and reasons for success or failure; at the basis for good instruction, briefings and the role of the training pilot. It gives special emphasis to teaching methods and techniques, and thus provides an all-round introduction to airline pilot training and self-study course for trainers, potential trainers and trainees. The authors have drawn not only on their current line experience, but also on other published sources to examine and explain many of the aspects and issues of professional flying training including LOFT, Human Factors, CRM, AQP and TQP. The contents should be familiar to training pilots worldwide. They should also provide an insight for all airline pilots, aspiring airline pilots, and indeed all who are interested or concerned with the operation of modem jet transport aircraft.

The Airline Training Pilot

Michael Fraser

Tony Smallwood

Avebury

This text deals with the two most popular level 3 options of digital techniques and microcomputer systems. The contents cover the requirements of C&G 2240 Part 3 in these topics, and also Microcomputer Systems Installation and Maintenance 3 (C&G 7261/344). BTEC courses U86/343,347 are also covered, along with NVQ requirements. The text also looks ahead of the syllabuses to cover more modern topics that will eventually appear.  Its 15 chapters range from chip technology, circuits, registers, memory and ADC/DAC devices; signalling and displays, fault finding, architectures and operations; programming, microprocessor applications and the PC. The authors' approach is essentially practical with the minimum of mathematics, placing the emphasis on experiment and fault finding. They aim to provide the important underpinning knowledge needed in the certification of vocational qualifications. With its well illustrated test questions and ideas for practicals, the text can also be used as a self study course for students and readers who wish to extend their knowledge of computer based systems in general. In particular, the chapter on PC machines should prove to be valuable to many users of these very popular systems.Readers will benefit from this step by step treatment of important topics and self test questions. They include students of C&G, BTEC, NVQ and equivalent courses, those in non-college courses and home study, and lecturers. Part of the market-leading series for City & Guilds 2240 and Electronics Servicing NVQsFormerly published by Avebury (Gower-Ashgate), new from NewnesBoth authors are well known Newnes / Butterworth-Heinemann / Focal Press authors

Digital Techniques and Microprocessor Systems (Servicing Electronic Systems , Vol 3)

Engineering & Transportation

Sinclair, Ian Robertson

Lewis, Geoffrey E.

Engineering

<p>This text examines the poor performance of airlines in the early 1990s - as output ran too far ahead of demand, and the yield earned on output sold was insufficient to cover costs. In any industry, operating expenses are a function of output and unit cost, whilst operating revenues are a function of sales and unit price. The difference between operating expenses and revenue is operating profit or loss. The study examines the basic economics of supply in the air transport industry, before going on to discuss market structure, contestability theory, and barriers to entry. It then goes on to examine unit costs, with chapters on costs and their classification, airline cost drivers and their management, and network structures and strategies. A chapter on the basic economics of demand for air transport is followed by chapters on market segmentation and demand forecasting. There is further analysis of airline pricing, yield management, and load factors.</p>

Straight and Level: Practical Airline Economics

Stephen Holloway

Transportation

Theory and resistance in education: A pedagogy for the opposition (Critical perspectives in social theory)

Henry A. Giroux

"The most important single volume on the sociology of voting yet to appear in the United States or anywhere else."--Political Science Quarterly."Lipset has once again demonstrated his preeminence in the fields of both sociology and political science."--Commentary.

Political Man

Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood

Jack D. Zipes

Literature & Fiction

This is a revised edition of a textbook which applies economic analysis to transport issues. Topics covered include movement, transport and location, the demand for transport, its direct and external costs, pricing, investment criteria, planning and forecasting, development, regulation and more.

Transport economics

Business & Money

This book which has now established itself as a classic study of working class boys describes how Paul Willis followed a group of 'lads' as they passed through the last two years of school and into work. The book explains that for 'the lads' it is their own culture which blocks teaching and prevents the realisation of liberal education aims. This culture exposes some of the contradictions within these formal aims and actually supplies the operational criteria by which a future in wage labour is judged. Paul Willis explores how their own culture can guide working class lads on to the shop floor.  This is an uncompromising book which has provoked considerable discussion and controversy in educational circles throughout the world - it has been translated into Finnish, German, French, Swedish, Japanese and Spanish.

Learning to labour: How working class kids get working class jobs

Politics & Social Sciences

Paul E. Willis

Social Sciences

Police and people in London: The PSI report

David J. Smith

Jeremy Gray

The Pesticides Health and Safety Handbook

Science & Math

Andrew Watterson

Biological Sciences

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