This free online course explores the highs and lows of a career as a pilot, and the skills required to qualify. This course helps aspiring pilots map a career path from multiple avenues within the industry. You will gain insight into becoming a safe and effective airline pilot and learn how to perform in a complex, fast moving, sedentary-yet-stressful working environment. You will discover how to interact within a multi-crew, multi-faceted working environment. Crucially, you will also learn to recognise and trap errors, manage threats, and recover safely.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 192260 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Describe the benefits of becoming a pilot • List the recommended pathways of a career as an airline pilot • Recall the procedures and steps toward securing employment in the airline industry • Recognize the various types of errors in aviation • Explain the importance of situational awareness • Discuss how to increase resilience in the face of unexpected events • Explain the concepts of Reason’s Swiss Cheese Model • Define CRM in the aviation context • State the possible causes of Somatogyral illusions • List the elements of the SHELL model |
| Course Code | 1194 |

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