Pilot Tools
Flying Jets | Airline Preparation | Electronic Logbooks| Private Pilot | Commercial Pilot | Instrument Pilot | Airline Transport Pilot (ATP)
Interview Preparation
- Pilot Interview Package – An absolute necessity for preparing for your airline interview!
- Checklist for Success – Successful Airline Interview - This is your guide to a successful airline interview. It will improve your competitiveness and chances of being hired!
- Checklist for Success CD – Virtual Interview Preparation - This is your companion guide to the Successful Airline Interview book mentioned above; see and hear examples of both good and bad interview scenarios.
- Pilot’s Airline Technical Interview Reference Manual – A valuable reference manual for the pilot’s technical interview preparation.
- Ace the Technical Pilot Interview – A comprehensive study guide providing pilots the answers they need to excel on their technical interview.
- FAR Flashcards for ATP (Parts 119, 121, and 135) - ASA Flashcards keep cockpit skills sharp and help pilots prepare for that important test, checkride, or interview! The FAA is going to want you to be an ATP before you get hired.
- Reporting Clear? - Your interview preparation guide to background checks and how to present your personal history.
- Airline Interview Power DVD – This DVD contains extraordinary insider information, direct from a senior airline captain, that will give you the confidence for your interview!
- Dream Pilot Jobs and How to Get One – You don’t have to wait a life-time to get that flying job that will help you build hours fast and get you on your way to a career in aviation.
Headsets and Logbooks
There are a few essential things pilots need: a headset, a flight bag, and a logbook.
A good headset is a MUST and you can get one at a very reasonable price at MyPilotStore.com. When you get to their website, search using the word “REFURB” for refurbished headsets. They are a lot cheaper and just as good!
In a previous entries, I have raved about the David Clark Aviation Headset, H10-13.4and the Sennheiser HMEC-26-B-K ANR Headset. But when it comes to logbooks you can do a few things — you can buy an actual logbook with pages or you can come into the 21st century and get an electronic logbook.
When I started flying, I used a paper logbook and now I have THREE of them. They are important because you get your endorsements in the back of the logbook, but as time goes on, and you get all your endorsements and start building hours, you will need something that can calculate your flight time along many different categories at a blink of an eye.
The Logbook Pro Pilot Logbook Software is a great electronic logbook. You will see that it does A LOT more than track your hours…it tracks currency requirements, medical exams, along with everything else you need to stay up on your flying. One of its best features though, I believe, is the ability to print out your electronic logbook with the parameters that are important to you and will help you get the flying job you have been working so hard to get. So get it early and start tracking that flight time, you will save yourself a lot of time and you will be glad you have it!
Airline Career Advisor Package
Getting into the airlines is a complicated process. Sure you can spend thousand and thousands of dollars going to a university that has an aviation program like University of North Dakota, Aviation Management Degree or you can attend a university in your state and save money, get a useful degree in business or marketing, THEN search out a local FBO and get your certificates and ratings (Private, Instrument, Commercial, Multi-engine, Flight Instructor, etc.) and save yourself a TON of money. Then, once you have your hours or if you already have your hours, get the Professional Pilot Career Guide.
This package has everything you need to get started and find that coveted airline job. I own all these books, but I bought them SEPERATELY (yeah, ouch!) and they were essential in getting my first airline job. Separately they would run you about $200. That’s wasted flight time. Buy them together and they run you ONLY $135. Huge savings! Now go get that flying job!
Fund Your Flight Training and Get the Job
- Fund Your Flying Secrets – Special Report!
- Dream Pilot Jobs and How To Get One – This really should be in your library.
Trusted Money Making Ideas for Pilots
- The Millionaire Society – This is an instense program that teaches you how to make money online but the pay offs are huge. If you think you can handle it, check it out.
- The Super Affiliate Handbook - Learn how to sell stuff on your blog or website.
- NicheProfitClassroom - Learn how to create ebooks and websites in your spare time that translate into money. I am currently enrolled.
- Blogging to the Bank - I have heard lots of great things about this course, but since I am currently involved in BecomeABlogger.com and NicheProfitClassroom.com, this will have to wait!
Training Material for Private Pilots
- Get Your Private Pilot License Fast – If you are tired of the same old training material, check this one out.
- Gleim Private Pilot Kit with Software – Buy everything needed for training and save enough to pay for an extra hour of flight training!
- ASA Private Pilot Kit – Part 61 – Perfect kit for introductory students with all the necessary books and supplies they need carried in the new ASA Pilot Briefcase.
- Rod Machado’s Private Pilot Handbook on Audio CD – 30 Hours of lively, sometimes funny, narration to prepare for the Private Pilot FAA knowledge and oral exams.
Training Material for Commercial Pilots
- Gleim Commercial Pilot Written Exam Guide – One of the easiest, fastest, and least expensive means of passing the FAA Commercial Pilot – Airplane Knowledge Test.
- ASA Virtual Test Prep DVD – Commercial Pilot – Virtual Test Prep — An Aviation Ground School on DVD.
- Gleim Commercial Pilot Test Prep Software – CD-ROM- Gleim Commercial Pilot Test Prep Software on CD-ROM.
- Gleim Instrument/Commercial Pilot Kit w/ Software – Designed to simplify and facilitate training for your instrument and/or commercial pilot certificate(s).
- The Complete Advanced Pilot - Comprehensive textbook for pilots taking courses and training to prepare for the Instrument rating and Commercial FAA exams and checkrides.
Training Material for Instrument Pilots
- ASA Instrument Rating Test Prep Book – Includes Instrument, Instrument Ground Instructor, CFII, and Foreign Pilot tests.
- Gleim Instrument Pilot Written Exam Guide – One of the easiest, fastest, and least expensive means of passing the FAA Instrument Pilot – Airplane knowledge test.
- ASA Virtual Test Prep DVD – Instrument Pilot – Virtual Test Prep — An Aviation Ground School on DVD
- Gleim Instrument Pilot Test Prep Software – CD-ROM- Gleim Instrument Pilot Test Prep Software – CD-ROM version
- Gleim Instrument Kit with Software – Designed to simplify and facilitate training for your instrument pilot certificate
- Rod Machado’s Instrument Pilot’s Survival Manual – This book is unlike any other book on instrument flying you have encountered.
Aviation Resume and Cover Letter Review
If you are trying to get a pilot position in the United States, then your personal appearance and resumes are the “bread-and-butter” of your airline interview.
If you look unprofessional, you might as well have never shown up!
If you have a bad, incomplete, sloppy resume then your chances of a successful interview and you getting hired drop drastically!
So, here is the deal, I will review your resume and cover letter for you. I will make suggestions and point out obvious problems that will keep you from getting hired.
Don’t let your airline interview go to chance, get your resume and cover now!
- A one-time fee of $17 gets you UNLIMITED resume and cover letter reviews.
- All payments are made through PayPal, which is both safe and secure.
- Are you ready to get the resume and cover letter that will get you the airline job of your dream? Send your resume and cover letter to resumeservice [at] flycrj [dot] com, make your payment below and I’ll have your resume reviewed within three (3) days.
Respected Blogs and Forums
- Aviation Chatter – Here is one of the nicest blogs I’ve seen in a long time!
- ThirtyThousandFeet Aviation Directory - If you can’t find it here, it doesn’t exist.
- IFlyASA – Incredibly useful and upcoming blog about aviation and flying. Must see!
- The Student Pilot Cast – Great podcast from Bill Williams about his path to becoming a pilot.
Tools Used to Create My Blog
I get asked all the time how did I create this blog. What tools do I use? Well listed below are the links to the programs and websites that I use. I learned it all through BecomeABlogger.com and used the tools they presented in their six month course to develop, and continue to develop, this blog.
If you are thinking about becoming a blogger or starting a website and you want to make some extra money by teaching and sharing your knowledge, sign-up with the trusted tools mentioned below.
- The Super Affiliate Handboook - It all started with this book by Rosiland Gardner, who explains blogging and selling affiliate products in easy-to-understand terms.
- BloggingToTheBank.com which teaches you how to start monetizing your blog and have it make you some income as well.
Blogging Tools I Use
- HostMonster.com – for domain name and web hosting
- AWeber.com – email and autoresponder service. The best!
- ShockwaveSound.com – for intro- and outro- music for podcasts
- BannersMall.com – for banners, like the one I use for the ”The CRJ200 Quicknotes Study Guide”
- ClickBank – sell your products using ClickBank on your blog/website and make money.








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