Airline Course

The Airline Course

In developing this course, we aim to ease pilots’ transitions into their first role as airline pilots by familiarizing users with the following parts of airline flying:

• Part 121 regulations
• Airline training programs
• Transport category jet systems
• Flight planning & dispatching
• General flight operations
• Crew resource management (CRM)
• Non-operational aspects of an airline career, including the seniority system and schedule bidding.

This course is not operator-specific; users must reference their company manuals for operator-specific information.

We anticipate that most users of this course will either be preparing for a role at a U.S. regional carrier or a U.S. major airline, flying a transport category jet. This course focuses heavily on jet operations and neglects turboprop flying due to its relative rarity in the 121 world. Nevertheless, most of the course will be equally valuable to those pilots who anticipate flying a turboprop.

Similarly, this course primarily serves pilots transitioning into Part 121 flying. Still, pilots transitioning into Part 135 operations will find it valuable, especially for those preparing to fly transport category jets and turboprops. We narrowed our focus to Part 121 because the transition into Part 121 tends to be more complex and challenging than the transition into Part 135. Focusing our efforts there affords us the best opportunity to make a meaningful difference in pilots’ career journeys.