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Flying Competent: The Pilot's Guide to Competencies, TEM, CBTA and EBT
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 17 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Every pilot is trained and tested against competencies, TEM, CBTA and EBT. Almost no one explains what they actually mean.
Modern airline training speaks a new language. You're graded on nine competencies, from one to five. Your recurrent check is evidence-based. Threat and Error Management underpins everything. Yet most pilots are assessed against this framework long before anyone hands them a plain explanation of how it all fits together - or what a check pilot is really looking for.
Flying Competent is that explanation.
Written by a Chief Flight Instructor with twenty-three years on the assessment side of the flight deck - across the Gulf, Europe and beyond - this is the guide for the line pilot, not the training department. It turns a soup of acronyms into a tool you can actually use: to understand how you're judged, to prepare for a competency-based check, to make the step to command, and to keep getting better across a whole career.
In clear, no-nonsense language, you'll find:
- The nine competencies, one by one - what strong and weak actually look like on the flight deck
- Nine real-world accidents - from Air France 447 to Qantas 32 - that show why each competency matters, and what it changed
- TEM, CBTA and EBT, finally made clear - how they connect, with diagrams and self-checks throughout
- How grading really works - the 1-5 scale, and the truth about what a 3 means
- The instructor's craft - the ORCA assessment process, explained for the first time in plain English
- A quick-reference glossary of every term and acronym
Whether you're a first officer facing your next assessment, a captain shaping a crew, an instructor refining your craft, or a cadet trying to make sense of it all, this book gives you the language - and the confidence - to own your development instead of being surprised by it.
Stop being assessed against a framework you were never taught. Understand it, use it, and fly competent.
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