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20 Things You Can Do To Be More Employable In Aviation

Employers want positive attitudes & emotional maturity.

A positive attitude is not someone who just uses one liners or posts memes.

So, what displays a positive attitude and emotional maturity?

1. Generally expect good outcomes
2. A belief that most things will turn out ok or get better in time, especially if I take the right steps to help it
3. When asked how things went or how things are, they will generally reply with a much larger balance of good than bad
4. When asked what you have been doing, they generally reply with mostly the good things rather than just the bad
5. They generally focus on words like “I will” “I am” “I can” I’m currently” “I’m completing” “I’m planning” “I’m Ok with”
6. They learn from problems and move on generally speaking about them as lessons learned or experience rather than dwell on them and wallow in the past
7. They view hurdles in life as challenges, and they deal with situations they go through, with confidence of a brighter future.
8. They can easily explain how they navigated difficult situations in the past and what steps they took (employers love this question)
9. They generally deal in most likely outcomes rather than conspiracy theories.
10. They are generally emotionally mature and support others around them
11. They exhibit self acceptance and acceptance of others differences
12. They are generally humble and exhibit humility
13. They exhibit gratitude, empathy, compassion and accountability
14. They look to de-escalate situations
15. They avoid blame and instead focus on accountability and learning for better future outcomes
16. They keep calm in difficult situations
17. They prioritise efficently and effectively
18. They keep commitments and follow procedures and rules
19. They think before acting
20. They often wait and take calculated responses rather than instantly respond

⚠️ Most employers use software or contractors to do social media background checks. It generally takes less then five minutes to find reasons to disqualify or de-rank candidates. When an employer background checks you, they hopefully will see many of the above.

Your social media profiles are a great place to start training yourself to exhibit these attributes. If your social media profiles will look terrible, it needs to be a high priority to clean them up sooner rather than later.

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Coping With Ambiguous Exam Questions?
It's a key skill for passing CASA exams and coping in aviation.

How can you develop your ability to better cope with ambiguity in CASA's pilot exam questions?

You must WANT to learn how to cope with ambiguity and VALUE it as a key skill to develop.
--Actively look for examples of ambiguity all around you. Look for how a sign or instruction could be read with 2 completely different meanings, simply because of someone’s background or the double meaning of a word or pause in reading it
--Look for ambiguity in practice exam questions and learn to ----LOVE the fact you can begin to identify, the use of ambiguity
--Work out how you could turn a question into a trick question, by using the most subtle of changes
--Practice writing some ambiguous trick questions using the most subtle of tricks
--Understand that the question writer ALWAYS has a different background TO YOU, and OFTEN may mean something slightly different to what you originally thought.
--ALWAYS question the question if it's ambiguous "What are the actually asking here?". This automatically places your brain in a position, to think the question may have multiple meanings. It's a great way to approach all questions.
--Know that you can see what you think is the same question, but a subtle change in the available responses can alter the correct response, especially where an answer has two correct responses, where one is most correct.
--Know that in many cases, the use of one word, or placement of a comma can completely change the "context" of a question or response
--Use PPE's IDEAL method for ambiguous questions and answers:
------Identify all those options they could be asking
------Decide what they are actually asking
------Eliminate your two worst options
------Analyze your two best options against the REAL question and pick one
------Look over it later to make sure you are correct

--During the actual exam, for ambiguous questions, keep very brief notes about your IDEAL method use, so when you come back to check, you can remember what they actually asked and which two options are best, or why you eliminated the other options.

So our best advice, is start to view ambiguity as a positive skill set and something you love and want to learn yourself, rather than an evil thing you don't understand.

Start actively looking to develop skills in finding ambiguity on a daily basis until you start seeing ambiguity everywhere.

Learn to love the fact, you can cope with ambiguity and have a new found skill set employers seek and love.

Using The Clock Face To Estimate Turns

Any pilot already with a licence or pilot certificate should already know clock positions, as we often use them when reporting to each other. Eg: I am at your 2 o’clock.

Another trick when beginning to fly to a compass is to use these clock face positions to make our turns much easier.

Each hour on a clock’s position represents 30° because 12 x 30° = 360°.

If you are heading 000 and wish to head 060 that would be two hours on a clock face. So estimate two o’clock, pick a landmark on the horizon at 2 o’clock and turn towards it, then make minor adjustments to get the exact heading. If you wish to turn 40° then turn just over one hour.

Our reference to 3 o’clock being exactly to our right and 9 o’clock being exactly to our left makes it easy to estimate these turns. Especially when we consider, we generally fly in a similar direction, with turns of less than 90° on most navigational flights.

For your first few navigation flights, you can make these turns even easier by estimating your clock turns on your maps, once you know your wind drifts. E.g. if leg two of your flight requires a 30° right turn, this is a turn to 1 Oclock. You can mark 1 H turn to R, on your map or plan sheet. If your second turn is 40° left, mark 1 & 1/3 H turn L.

Eventually you won’t need any of these tips, as it will all become automated, however these few tips can really help.

Practice writing, reading and turning these clock headings, while standing anywhere in an outdoor open space.

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