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Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter I: Getting Started |
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| 1. Planning Your Aviation Career . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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2. Is an Aviation Career Right for Me? . . . . . . . . . . . .
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3. Do I Need a College Degree? . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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4. Big School or Small School? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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5. Age: Not the Factor it Once Was . . . . . . . . . . . .
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6. Midlife Career Change:
Is Faster Better?. . . . . . . . . |
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Chapter II: Skills and Strategies |
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| 1. The Networking
Factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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2. Which Rating, When? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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3. Spending Your Flying
Dollars Wisely . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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4. Good Instrument Skills
are a Must . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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5. Ab Initio Training . . . . . . . . . . . .
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6. Accelerated Training:
Is It for You?. . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| 7. Simulators:
Help or Hindrance? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter III:
Beginning Flying Jobs |
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| 1. Begin with
an Airport Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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2. Early Job Opportunities: Make Your Own . . . . . . .
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3. Job Opportunities for
Older Pilots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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4. Becoming an
Instructor, a CFI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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5. Getting Paid to Fly . . . . . . . . . . . .
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6. Moving up the Job
Ladder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| 7. From Amateur
to Pro: Crossing the Line . . . . . . . . . |
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| 8. Other Flying
Careers . . . . . . . . . . . .
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| 9. Career
Choices: Making the Right Moves . . . . . . . . |
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| 10. Building
Quality Flight Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter IV: Women’s Issues |
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Relationships and Your Airline Career. . . . . . . . .
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2. Obstacles Facing Women Pilots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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3. Perceptions: Often of
Our Own Making. . . . . . . . . . |
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4. Dealing with
Discrimination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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5. How Women Pilots
Succeed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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6. Balancing Family and
Career. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Chapter V:
Marketing Considerations |
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| 1. Marketing
Yourself: If You Don’t, Who Will? . . . . . |
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2. Career Quandary: Corporate or Airline?. . . . . . . . .
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3. Don’t Let Glitches
Stall Your Career . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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4. Learn from the
Mistakes of Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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5. Mistakes You Wish
You’d Never Made . . . . . . . .
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6. Acknowledge Your
Shortcomings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| 7. Job
Continuity: How Crucial Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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| 8. Getting Back
Into Flying . . . . . . . . . .
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| 9. Military to
Airline—Plan Ahead. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter VI:
Logs, Resumes, Job Applications |
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| 1. Logbooks
101: Neatness Counts . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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2. Logbooks: An Interviewer’s Perspective. . . . . . . . .
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3. A Current Resume: Your
Best Sales Tool . . . . . . . . |
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4. Will Your Resume Get
You an Interview? . . . . . . . . |
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5. Resume Etiquette . . . . . . . .
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6. Job Applications . . .
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| 7. Job
Applications: Dos and Don’ts . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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| 8. Job
Applications: What Companies Want . . . . . .
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| 9. Scrutinizing
Your Own Airline Application . . . . . . . |
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Chapter VII: Interview Basics |
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| 1. Interview
Preparation: A Multi-Step Process. . . . . |
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2. Interview Attitudes: Are Yours Appropriate?. . . . .
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3. Why Won’t They
Interview Me? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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4. Avoiding Canned
Interview Responses . . . . . . . . . . |
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5. Why Won’t They Hire
Me?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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6. What Interviewers
Really Want . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| 7. Interview
Post Mortem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter VIII: Interview Secrets |
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| 1. Have You Got
What it Takes?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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2. Selling Yourself: Sing Your Own Praises . . . . . . .
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3. Technical Knowledge:
An Interview Must . . . . . . . . |
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4. Career Commitment:
Does Yours Measure Up? . . |
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5. Playing by the Rules .
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6. Leadership Skills: Are
Yours Up to Par? . . . . . . . . . |
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| 7. Plays Well
with Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter IX:
Airline Flying |
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| 1. Flying the
Simulator: It’s Not an Airplane! . . . . . . . |
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2. You’re Hired! Now What? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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3. Ground School Starts
Monday: Are You Ready? . . |
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4. Surviving New–Hire
Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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5. Adapting to Life at an
Airline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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6. Airline Culture: Do
You Fit In? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| 7. The
Exceptional Copilot: Is That You? . . . . . . . . . . .
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| 8. The
Exceptional Copilot has Many Skills . . . . . . . . . |
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Glossary .
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