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The Direct Entry Captain Prep Pack.

An honest framework for the assessment. No leaked question banks, no insider sim profiles, no hype — just the structure that actually gets a working captain through.

Who this is for.

Written for

  • Qualified captains considering a DEC move at a major airline.
  • Senior F/Os within a year or two of command who want to see the road ahead clearly.
  • Pilots who've been offered a DEC slot and want to decide honestly whether to take it.

Not for

  • Anyone looking for a cheat sheet or a leaked question bank.
  • Low-hour pilots hoping to skip the command upgrade path.
  • People who want a motivational book. This one assumes you already know how hard command is.

What's inside.

A 42-page working pack plus five companion templates and three live spreadsheets. Print them, fill them in, adapt them to your situation.

The pack — ten sections, ~42 pages

Companion materials

01CV & logbook pre-submission checklistPDF
02Medical prep checklistPDF
03Reference briefing templatePDF
04Sim prep drill setPDF
05Decision worksheet — go/no-go on a specific offerPDF
0690-day timeline — week-by-week GanttXLSX
07Offer comparison — net-to-you across up to three offersXLSX
08Behavioural story bank — coverage-check across seven themesXLSX

The voice.

This is not a leaked question bank. There are no proprietary sim profiles, no insider interview questions from any specific airline, no confidential training material. Anyone selling you that is risking their career for your money, and the information would be out of date within months anyway.

What this pack is: an honest, structured framework for approaching a Direct Entry Captain assessment — built from publicly available information, pilot community knowledge, and the mental approach that works for experienced captains moving between operators.

From the pack — About this pack

Free sample.

The full table of contents and the complete first section — The DEC Landscape — as a four-page PDF. Read it, decide if the voice and approach are for you, and only then think about buying.

Get the pack.

One payment. Instant download. PDF of the full pack, all five companion template PDFs, and the three working spreadsheets. Updates included when the pack is revised.

Buy on Gumroad One-time · includes future updates

Stay in the loop.

Occasional, short notes from the flight deck — when the pack is updated, when useful new material drops, when something in the DEC market genuinely changes. No promotions, no forwarding lists.

Also from AerologHQ.

The Aerolog EFB

Your flight bag, organised.

A working Electronic Flight Bag for line pilots — built by the same people behind this pack. Logbook, documents, and the tools you actually use, on the device you already carry.

Get it on Google Play iOS in development

Questions.

Is this a question bank or insider material?

No. The pack is explicit about this on page one. If you're looking for leaked sim profiles or interview questions from a specific airline, this is the wrong product and anyone selling you that is risking their career for your money.

Which airlines does it cover?

It's deliberately airline-agnostic. The framework — sim technique, interview themes, the decision to accept or decline — transports across any major carrier running a DEC programme. Specific airlines are referenced as examples where it's useful, not as the subject of the pack.

What format do I get?

One ZIP containing: the full pack as a polished PDF (42 pages), the combined pack+companions PDF, five standalone companion PDFs (checklists, templates, worksheets), and three working Microsoft Excel spreadsheets (90-day timeline, offer comparison, story bank). Everything is print-ready and offline.

Will it get stale?

The framework won't. Hiring cycles and specific airline quirks move — the pack is written to stay useful across them. When there's a substantive update, owners get the new version at no extra cost.

Refunds?

Seven days, no questions asked, handled through Gumroad's standard refund flow.

Who wrote this?

A current line captain on the A350. The pack is published pseudonymously under AerologHQ; direct contact is available to buyers for substantive questions.