Just as important as the exams is the interview panel, and this is the book for those who want to deal with both - its purpose is to help you become a professional, for which the exams are but a step on the way - doing the bare minimum to pass them makes you ill-prepared to be a pilot, which is not fair to future passengers and painfully obvious to employers (and examiners) who certainly expect you to have more than the basic knowledge supplied by lesser material. It covers the Commercial, ATP, INRAT and IATRA exams, written by a pilot with considerable operational experience in both categories, and includes professional tips and tricks not taught in the classroom, plus a lot you should be taught, were it not for time constraints, based on common questions asked during recurrent training, and known exam questions. It is also useful if you are waiting for a job to turn up and wish to keep your knowledge current, and for people with foreign licences who need to get their Canadian ones in a hurry. The contents include the usual subjects, that is, radio, weather, law, flight planning, etc., right up to the ATPL, plus Human Factors and Going For a Job (with lots of interview questions!).
Aeroplane exams are covered (see Professional Helicopter Pilot Studies for helicopters), as well as the Instrument Rating and IATRA, so there's real value inside these pages, especially as they don't contain the mistakes and misinformation you will find elsewhere (our digital printing means that changes and feedback are incorporated almost immediately). This means you don't have to buy multiple copies of the same information, or stuff that is freely available from Transport Canada anyway. In other words, this one book covers the same syllabuses as Culhane (Accelerated Aviation Training) does somewhat sketchily over several volumes, so your costs are vastly reduced. Although known exam questions have been worked into the text (and this book is used as a reference by Transport Canada for exam questions, together with From The Ground Up), there is no substitute for exam practice, and there are free exam questions available from here. Here is a good Australian site for questions.
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