Boeing 737 Study Guide, 2022 Edition

Boeing 737 Study Guide, 2022 Edition
Author: Rick Townsend
Publisher:
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2021-12-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781946544414

The Boeing 737-800 Study Guide is a compilation of notes taken primarily from flight manuals, but it also includes elements taken from class notes, computer-based training, and operational experience. It is intended for use by initial qualification crewmembers, and also for systems review prior to recurrent training or check rides. The book is written in a way that organizes in one location all the buzz words, acronyms, and numbers the average pilot needs to know in order to get through the events above from an aircraft systems standpoint.

The Boeing 737 Technical Guide

The Boeing 737 Technical Guide
Author: Chris Brady
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-11-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781006280580

This is an illustrated technical guide to the Boeing 737 aircraft. Containing extensive explanatory notes, facts, tips and points of interest on all aspects of this hugely successful airliner and showing its technical evolution from its early design in the 1960s through to the latest advances in the MAX. The book provides detailed descriptions of systems, internal and external components, their locations and functions, together with pilots notes and technical specifications. It is illustrated with over 500 photographs, diagrams and schematics.Chris Brady has written this book after many years developing the highly successful and informative Boeing 737 Technical Site, known throughout the world by pilots, trainers and engineers as the most authoritative open source of information freely available about the 737.

Flying Blind

Flying Blind
Author: Peter Robison
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2022-10-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0593082516

NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS BEST SELLER • A suspenseful behind-the-scenes look at the dysfunction that contributed to one of the worst tragedies in modern aviation: the 2018 and 2019 crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX. An "authoritative, gripping and finely detailed narrative that charts the decline of one of the great American companies" (New York Times Book Review), from the award-winning reporter for Bloomberg. Boeing is a century-old titan of industry. It played a major role in the early days of commercial flight, World War II bombing missions, and moon landings. The planemaker remains a cornerstone of the U.S. economy, as well as a linchpin in the awesome routine of modern air travel. But in 2018 and 2019, two crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 killed 346 people. The crashes exposed a shocking pattern of malfeasance, leading to the biggest crisis in the company’s history—and one of the costliest corporate scandals ever. How did things go so horribly wrong at Boeing? Flying Blind is the definitive exposé of the disasters that transfixed the world. Drawing from exclusive interviews with current and former employees of Boeing and the FAA; industry executives and analysts; and family members of the victims, it reveals how a broken corporate culture paved the way for catastrophe. It shows how in the race to beat the competition and reward top executives, Boeing skimped on testing, pressured employees to meet unrealistic deadlines, and convinced regulators to put planes into service without properly equipping them or their pilots for flight. It examines how the company, once a treasured American innovator, became obsessed with the bottom line, putting shareholders over customers, employees, and communities. By Bloomberg investigative journalist Peter Robison, who covered Boeing as a beat reporter during the company’s fateful merger with McDonnell Douglas in the late ‘90s, this is the story of a business gone wildly off course. At once riveting and disturbing, it shows how an iconic company fell prey to a win-at-all-costs mentality, threatening an industry and endangering countless lives.

Boeing 737 Study Guide, 2019 Edition

Boeing 737 Study Guide, 2019 Edition
Author: Rick Townsend
Publisher:
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2018-12-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781946544162

The Boeing 737 Study Guide is a compilation of notes taken primarily from flight manuals, but it also includes elements taken from class notes, computer-based training, and operational experience. It is intended for use by initial qualification crewmembers, and also for systems review prior to recurrent training or check rides. The book is written in a way that organizes in one location all the buzz words, acronyms, and numbers the average pilot needs to know in order to get through qualification from an aircraft systems standpoint

Boeing 777 Study Guide, 2021 Edition

Boeing 777 Study Guide, 2021 Edition
Author: Rick Townsend
Publisher:
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2021
Genre:
ISBN: 9781946544384

The Boeing 777 Study Guide is a compilation of notes taken primarily from flight manuals, but also includes elements taken from class notes, computer-based training, and operational experience. It is intended for use by initial qualification crewmembers, and also for systems review prior to recurrent training or check rides. The book is written in a way that organizes in one location all the buzz words, acronyms, and numbers the average pilot needs to know in order to get through qualification from an aircraft systems standpoint. The guide covers 777-200 and 777-300 series airplanes.

The Logistics and Supply Chain Innovation Handbook

The Logistics and Supply Chain Innovation Handbook
Author: John Manners-Bell
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2019-07-03
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0749486341

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is now transforming logistics and supply chain industries. Consumer habits are changing fast and supply chains are having to adapt to meet the challenges created by this dynamic new environment. Traditional logistics operating models are under threat. Incumbent freight operators across the entire transport and warehousing spectrum have been forced to develop strategies to effectively compete with new start-ups. The Logistics and Supply Chain Innovation Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of all the major new technologies and business models currently under development and looks at this process of disruption in detail. The Logistics and Supply Chain Innovation Handbook covers many important topics, such as crowd sourcing and shipping, on-demand delivery, autonomous vehicles, automation in the warehouse, electric vehicles and alternative fuels. It provides readers with a straightforward and easy to understand assessment of these innovations and their impact on the industry. Online supporting resources include PowerPoints and sample case studies.

Boeing 737 Study Guide, 2020 Edition

Boeing 737 Study Guide, 2020 Edition
Author: Rick Townsend
Publisher:
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2019-12-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781946544254

The Boeing 737-800 Study Guide is a compilation of notes taken primarily from flight manuals, but it also includes elements taken from class notes, computer-based training, and operational experience. It is intended for use by initial qualification crewmembers, and also for systems review prior to recurrent training or check rides.The book is written in a way that organizes in one location all the buzz words, acronyms, and numbers the average pilot needs to know in order to get through the events above from an aircraft systems standpoint.

Ask the Pilot

Ask the Pilot
Author: Patrick Smith
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2004
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9781594480041

Though we routinely take to the air, for many of us flying remains a mystery. Few of us understand the how and why of jetting from New York to London in six hours. How does a plane stay in the air? Can turbulence bring it down? What is windshear? How good are the security checks? Patrick Smith, an airline pilot and author of Salon.com's popular column, "Ask the Pilot," unravels the secrets and tells you all there is to know about the strange and fascinating world of commercial flight. He offers: A nuts and bolts explanation of how planes fly Insights into safety and security Straight talk about turbulence, air traffic control, windshear, and crashes The history, color, and controversy of the world's airlines The awe and oddity of being a pilot The poetry and drama of airplanes, airports, and traveling abroad In a series of frank, often funny explanations and essays, Smith speaks eloquently to our fears and curiosities, incorporating anecdotes, memoir, and a life's passion for flight. He tackles our toughest concerns, debunks conspiracy theories and myths, and in a rarely heard voice dares to return a dash of romance and glamour to air travel.

Flight Failure

Flight Failure
Author: Donald J. Porter
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2020-05-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1633886239

A former aircraft engineer exposes the dangerous breakdown in airline safety due to lapses in maintenance and quality control. This book chronicles maintenance-related accidents –including the recent Boeing 737 MAX accidents –caused by individual, corporate, or governmental negligence and brings the industry's current state of affairs into sharp focus.The author, a former aviation engineer specializing in aircraft fault diagnosis and maintenance planning, examines how failures of the smallest of parts have brought down airliners, explaining sometimes esoteric mechanical issues for readers with no technical background. Vividly describing the terror of accidents and close calls, the author then follows the painstaking investigations to determine causes. He focuses on maintenance errors, which rank as one of the top three causes of airline accidents, and points to the factors that have led to an alarming situation-- continued reduction of licensed mechanics, the shutting down of maintenance bases in the United States, and the outsourcing of maintenance to lowballing contractors. Outsourcing has forced thousands of licensed mechanics into retirement or different careers. For those mechanics still employed in the United States, the ever-present threat to their jobs does nothing to cultivate loyalty to an employer and devotion to a task. The Federal Aviation Administration, which should be overseeing quality control, is caught in a conflicted dual role--charged with regulating safety on the one hand and assuring the fiscal stability of airlines on the other. This disturbing wakeup call for improved airline safety standards highlights the critical importance of attention to detail. Porter recommends that the numbers and job security of airline mechanics be increased and that they be vested with an authority level akin to medical professionals.