ATPL Mass and Balance

di Matthew Dowell (Autore)

Matthew Dowell, 2026

Mass and Balance is the shortest paper in the ATPL. Candidates still fail it with every method learnt. 25 questions. 75 minutes. 75% to pass. Subject 031 asks 84 learning objectives for 25 marks, and every one of them rests on a single formula: moment equals mass times arm. The arithmetic is never the problem. The marks are lost to bookkeeping — take-off fuel where block fuel was wanted, the old mass instead of the new — and every wrong option is the right answer to that slightly different question. ATPL Mass and Balance is a complete revision guide and question bank for the EASA and UK CAA airline transport pilot licence theory examination, written by an airline captain and Chief Flight Instructor, and built on all 84 learning objectives for Subject 031. It teaches on three aeroplanes of its own. A single-engine piston in pounds and inches, a light twin in kilograms and metres, and a medium-range jet. One flight on the jet runs from Chapter 2 to Chapter 8, so the fuel figure you work out in one chapter is the one you load in the next. What is inside Where the marks are, on one page: determination of the CG carries nine of the 25 marks. 141 practice questions with worked explanations — 116 through the chapters, plus a 25-question mock examination paper weighted exactly as the real paper is, built only from objectives the chapters did not test. No question is asked twice. 63 worked examples, set out line by line. The confusable pairs and Traps, and why they work in every chapter: dry operating mass and operating mass, block fuel and take-off fuel. On the day. One flight per chapter, running the rules through a real operation in the order they arise. 31 clear diagrams drawn for this book: the mass ladder, the mean aerodynamic chord and the load and trim sheet. Every figure sourced, in Numbers you must own**. A glossary and a 187-entry index. ** Eight chapters covering the whole syllabus: why mass and the CG are limited; the masses, fuel terms and standard masses; the structural and performance limits and the allowed take-off mass; datum, moment and % MAC; weighing and the empty mass; the arithmetic, graphic and index methods; the load and trim sheet; and moving the CG, misloads and securing cargo. Written for the paper you are actually sitting. The standard masses are taken from the Air Operations rules as they stand in 2026, and the fuel terms follow the scheme in force since October 2022, in which "extra fuel" no longer means what older textbooks say it means. Beyond the EU and UK. Written to the EASA ATPL(A) learning objectives, which also underpin the ATPL theory examinations of the United Arab Emirates (GCAA), Qatar (QCAA), Oman, Türkiye (SHGM), Singapore (CAAS), Malaysia (CAAM), Hong Kong (CAD), Sri Lanka (CAASL), Thailand (CAAT) and Pakistan (PCAA). A page at the front shows the paper this book serves with each authority and what to add from local sources. It also serves the related SACAA (South Africa) and DGCA (India) papers. A revision guide, not a course of training: enrolment with an Approved Training Organisation remains a legal prerequisite. It contains no questions from any question bank — every question was written for this book. Its aeroplanes and data are fictional and must never be used to load or dispatch an aircraft. One of fourteen books in the Mastering ATPL series, one for each ATPL(A) theory subject, all written to the same pattern.

• Autore: Matthew Dowell
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Matthew Dowell
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237423242