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This is the eBook (epub) edition of this title. Pilots in Command: Your Best Trip, Every Trip goes beyond the requirements of flight training curricula into what is both a rarity and a necessity: sage advice from real pilots, for student and professional aviators alike, about how to be true leaders. Captain-candidates at air carriers go through a captains class, an extra module in pilot upgrade training that helps them learn to operate each flight as a good leader. Yet not every captains class provides tricks of the trade or solid, experience-proven, leadership advice. Pilots know that when things go wrong, everyone looks to the captain -- the pilot in command -- to make things right. In an easy-to-use format, on a range of topics that all tie into the application of basic leadership skills, the author covers crew roles, crew briefings, flight attendants, crew resource management (CRM), threat and error management (TEM), ground services, dispatch, customer service, abnormal and emergency situations, layovers, crew dynamics, 14 CFR Part 117 rest rules, and a new model of transformational leadership and professionalism for pilots.

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Kristofer Pierson is a pilot for a major U.S. airline based in New York who has been working in several segments of the aviation industry for the last two decades. He holds an ATP with type ratings on the Boeing 757/767, Bombardier CRJ900/700/200 Series, and Saab SF340. A former instructor and evaluator at the general aviation, collegiate, and airline level, Mr. Pierson has several thousand hours of flight experience as both a Captain and a First Officer. He has a B.S. degree in Airway Science - Aircraft Systems Management from Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana. Pierson does freelance speaking engagements with topics ranging from leadership, to flying, family, and even weather -- he also teaches weather hazard awareness and safety courses, and is trained and certified by the National Weather Service to train severe weather spotters. He is the author of Pilots In Command: Your Best Trip, Every Trip, which capitalizes on his experiences as a pilot, a leader, and an educator.

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