Flying Competent: The Pilot’s Guide to Competencies, TEM, CBTA and EBT

Every pilot is trained and tested against competencies, TEM, CBTA and EBT. Almost no one explains what they actually mean.Modern airline training speaks a new language. You're graded on nine competencies, from one to five. Your recurrent check is "evidence-based." Threat and Error Management underpins everything. Yet most pilots are assessed against this framework long before anyone hands them a plain explanation of how it all fits together - or what a check pilot is really looking for.Flying Competent is that explanation.Written by a Chief Flight Instructor with twenty-three years on the assessment side of the flight deck - across the Gulf, Europe and beyond - this is the guide for the line pilot, not the training department. It turns a soup of acronyms into a tool you can actually use: to understand how you're judged, to prepare for a competency-based check, to make the step to command, and to keep getting better across a whole career.In clear, no-nonsense language, you'll find: - The nine competencies, one by one - what strong and weak actually look like on the flight deck- Nine real-world accidents - from Air France 447 to Qantas 32 - that show why each competency matters, and what it changed- TEM, CBTA and EBT, finally made clear - how they connect, with diagrams and self-checks throughout- How grading really works - the 1-5 scale, and the truth about what a "3" means- The instructor's craft - the ORCA assessment process, explained for the first time in plain English- A quick-reference glossary of every term and acronymWhether you're a first officer facing your next assessment, a captain shaping a crew, an instructor refining your craft, or a cadet trying to make sense of it all, this book gives you the language - and the confidence - to own your development instead of being surprised by it.Stop being assessed against a framework you were never taught. Understand it, use it, and fly competent.