A320 · Type rating & recurrent

The manual has the steps.This has the picture.

Failure management drawn as geometry and timeline, memory items drilled as sequence, and the guide nobody wrote about surviving the course.

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Written and flown by a current A320 captain

Engine failure on takeoff — a one-page illustration showing the reject regimes, climb segments and the engine-out sequence
66Scenario chains
12Failure modes named
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Real pages, not mockups. Every one is built around the thing a manual cannot give you — the shape of the response, the order that makes it work, and where people actually lose it.

Engine failure on takeoff illustration
Engine failure on takeoffReject regimes either side of 100 kt, the climb segments, and the sequence through to green dot.
Engine failure in cruise drift-down illustration
Engine failure in cruiseDrift-down at green dot, gross versus net path, and the points where turning back stops working.
Turning departure and missed approach illustration
Turning departureWhy the turn gets away from you when bank is rationed by speed — and when to take the autopilot off.
Loss of braking memory item illustration
Loss of brakingThe gate, the sequence, what you have just given up — and a recitation drill.

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Type Rating Survival Guide cover

Type Rating Survival Guide

What the course actually asks of you — a study method that retains, the philosophy shift experienced pilots underestimate, and twelve ways good pilots fail a rating they were capable of passing.

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Failure Management Illustrated

Failure Management Illustrated

Six one-page illustrations of what a failure actually looks like: the geometry, the timeline, the decision points, the spoken calls, and where trainees lose the exercise.

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Memory Items Illustrated

Memory Items Illustrated

Nine items, one to a sheet, so the one you need goes in the sim bag on its own. When it applies, the order that makes it work, what you have just given up — and a cover-the-column recitation drill.

9 ITEMSONE PER SHEETRECITATION DRILL
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Type Rating Exam Prep cover

Type Rating Exam Prep

Banks train you to recognise the answer. An examiner makes you say it. 66 scenario chains with the follow-ups and the trap, plus a limitations drill you fill from your own manual so it never goes stale.

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A320 Complete bundle

A320 Complete

Every A320 product together — the survival guide, both illustrated sets, and the exam prep — plus every page added to them later, free.

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Free one-page guide: twelve ways good pilots fail a type rating

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Twelve ways good pilots
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Almost nobody fails for lack of ability. They fail for these — and every one is preventable, cheaply, before you ever sit in the simulator. One page. Share it with your course.

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Why these exist

Reference tells you
what is true. This
rehearses you.

Examiners do not read you question lists. They hand you a failure, a crew and a day that is already busy — then follow up wherever your answer runs thin. Reference material is built to be correct. It is not built to do that to you.

So every product here is shaped around the moment it is actually for: geometry instead of prose, sequence instead of steps, a fill-in drill instead of numbers that go stale on the next revision.

✓Drawn, not describedFailures as geometry and timeline — the picture a manual has no reason to give you.
✓The words, not a summaryStandard calls printed as spoken phraseology, so a page is usable in a briefing.
✓Nothing reproducedAll original work. No manufacturer documentation, no operator procedures, nothing resold.
✓Nothing goes staleOperator-specific figures are filled from your own current manual, never printed from someone else's fleet.
✓Updates for lifeNew pages and revisions reach every past buyer, free.

Questions, answered

What do I actually receive?

Instant digital downloads — print-optimised PDFs, plus an Excel workbook for the ownership calculator. No shipping, no waiting, no subscription.

Are these official Airbus or EASA materials?

No — and that matters. Everything is original training content. Nothing is reproduced from manufacturer documentation or any operator's manuals. Your current FCOM, your operator's procedures, your ATO and your instructor are always the final authority. These are training aids, not operational documents.

My operator's numbers are different. Does that break these?

No, because the operator-specific figures are deliberately not printed. Acceleration altitudes, limitations and callout wording vary between operators flying identical aircraft, so the pages teach the shape and the reasoning, and you fill your own figures from your own current manual. That is what makes them usable wherever you fly.

Why not just use a question bank?

Use one — they are good at what they do. A bank trains you to recognise the right answer among four. An examiner makes you say it, then asks the follow-up. These products rehearse the saying.

Can my airline or ATO use these?

Personal licences cover individual use. Airline, ATO and classroom licensing is available — email [email protected] and tell me roughly how many students.

Who is behind this?

A current A320 captain who sits the same recurrent checks these prepare for. Everything here started as material built for real study — a colleague heading into a course, a question that kept coming up in the crew room — and was then made properly.