The Airline Move Playbook
For experienced pilots changing airline or region, applying as a direct-entry captain, or facing a technical systems interview. A method for learning your systems, honest answers built from real events, and the tools to decide on, and prepare for, the move.
What's inside
Learning your systems
A method for technical interviews and authority oral exams: draw it, go button by button, ask what you lose. Method only, no exam content.
Answers from real events
Worked decision and leadership examples, plus a story bank that turns your own experience into clear, honest answers.
The direct-entry captain interview
How to answer questions about leading newer pilots, flying demanding approaches and your start date.
Wait or move?
A decision worksheet for weighing an upgrade queue against a new airline, with the seniority, contract and family questions to answer first.
Before you apply
A checklist covering published minimums, logbook, licence conversion, medical, notice period and training bonds.
Your study plan
A planner that fits around a flying roster: short sessions on duty days, longer ones on days off.
What it isn't
- No airline's interview questions, manuals, SOPs or training material
- No authority exam content
- No claims about what assessors look for. I've never sat on a panel
- Not a substitute for your own airline's approved documents
Who it's for
- First officers weighing an upgrade queue against a move
- Captains applying for direct-entry captain jobs
- Pilots facing a systems-heavy interview or an authority oral exam