Ace the Technical interview by G.Bristow
 

Does anyone know which sections or answers (by page number if possible) are incorrect in the above book.

I bought the book following some good recommendations on this board. I read to about 1/3, and was staggered by the number of answers and articles I totally disagreed with and found plain wrong that I dropped it. Without wishing to cause an argument, I said nothing, but it's nice to see other people appear to be questioning the depth and accuracy of this book.

Read it about a year ago, and if I remember correctly, his explanation of Dutch Roll was scary. Saying something along the lines that each downward going wing was caused as a result of that wing stalling.

His explaination of Epr on takeoff was way out there. It was simply wrong.
Take care

Head in the clouds
 

thank you for your input, i will start rewriting the stuff although running out of time now with i/v approaching.

it is defeating the purpose of the book when you have to read other material to check the info out- time consuming but thanks again.

Anyone else have comments about the accuracy of the book i would love to hear from you.

cheers

gta

This book was a golden opportunity that was completely mishandled. Full of errors, almost too many to mention. How the bloke can keep his name to this and not die of embarrassment, I don't know. A complete rewrite is needed to save further embarrassment. And then all those who have purchased will want refunds/replacements!

bernouilli
 

yep i know what you mean. if it had been written in the style of D P Davies - handling the big jets then it would have been a very good book.

gta

I have Handling the Big jets......
I too have found many errors. Can you gentlemen recommend another book.

You could look at it positively.

If you have to verify all the incorrect facts by looking them up elsewhere, athough time-consuming, you will learn a hell of a lot in the process!!!!!!

Undoubtedly the advice I would give would be to totally avoid this garbage. There are clunky explanations, very poor writing, loads of wrong facts and poor reasoning. All round dangerous in that you would get the wrong idea about a lot of things. I get the impression he is a limited experience flyer writing way beyond his knowledge and capability. The contrast with DP Davies and his Handling the Biggies is just too great to mention. That was written by a highly experienced (and qualified!) TEST PILOT with an amazing amount of experience of all the civil jets and an expert pilot with good writing skills to boot. I was left by 'Ace' with a feeling of disgust. Maybe worth reading as a lesson on how not to write a book.

other resources for Aerodynamics
 

1 Through search function on the net i found that for basic aerodynamics www.rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk/aeroxtra/olaeaero.htm is very good and has good diagrams.

2 another site is http://aerodyn.org/HighSpeed/sweepback.html is good also.

3 Some sample multiple choice questions that were good practice can be found at http://www.airwork.nl/examenvragen/a...offlight2.shtm. these are similar to the Sample cathay multiple choice questions found on the pprune site.

correction last link
 

should be:http://www.airwork.nl/examenvragen/a...fflight2.shtml

bye

gta

Thought So!
 

Yeah I was looking for some stuff to refreshen previous study and suspected in the first chapter that something wasn't quite right about this book.

This post has saved me another 250 pages of head scratching.

Off to find something else. I might go an get my old texts out.

Whats the best of the best in terms of website guys?

Good stuff

"Ace the Technical Pilot Interview" book = cr@p!
 

Hi all

Just brushing up on some *ahem* random reading in the 'Ace the Technical Pilot Interview' book and I have to warn anyone on here thinking of buying it, that the bloke who wrote it doesn't appear to know his @rse from his elbow.

Only a few pages in and the author has already tried to explain to me that

- The lift equation = 1/2rho + Vsquared + S + Cl :ooh:

- Dutch roll is perpetuated by the upward going wing STALLING and losing all its lift and then dropping :uhoh:

- it's better to lose your UPWIND engine in a max crosswind takeoff :eek:

What a useless publication, in fact it is worse than useless because you start to wonder if your understanding was wrong and then you have to go and check, and ask all your mates, and by the time you've decided you were right all along you've wasted a whole load of time.

I don't know whether I should read more of this book and maybe fill my head with wrong information, or keep reading it to try and pull some useful gen from amongst all the dodgy stuff. If I find any others I'll post them here, does anyone else have this book and can point out any extra clangers they've spotted?

It also tries to explain lift as 'molecules above wing have to travel further...'

I've had it gathering dust for a while now but I'll get it out and read through and, likewise, post any clangers that I come across. That's worrying to think that some poor sod could sit down in an interview and confidently bullsh*t his/her way out of a job.

luke theres a PM waiting for you dude

Unless i'm being v.stupid, it is better to lose your upwind engine.

If you have a xwind from the right and you lose your downwind engine ie left engine, the extra roll and yaw will be in the same direction as the wind therefore making it harder to stay on track???

Ali1

Can anyone recommend a good book for Interviews??
Thanks beforehand.