CaptainPractice the conversations that decide your career.
Voice-led preparation for the interviews, vivas, and assessments that shape a pilot's career. Built by Jason Jones, Type-Rated Captain. Calibrated against the rubrics real panels use. From your first job through to flight operations leadership, Marcus is the senior captain who sits with you while you practice.
What pilots say about CaptainReady
Named endorsements from captains and pilots.
“As an experienced airline captain and flight instructor, I recognise the importance of high-quality mentoring and career guidance in aviation. This platform offers first-class, practical, and professional coaching, supporting individuals from the very start of their aviation journey through to interview preparation, command upgrades, and senior leadership opportunities. I would highly recommend it to anyone seeking to advance their aviation career.”
Captain Steve Jones
“Having known Jason for over 11 years, I was thrilled when he shared this project. This is an excellent tool built by a pilot, for pilots, directly addressing the daily hustles we face in our aviation careers. Congratulations!”
Fabio Wanderley
Head of Operations
“A valuable resource, helpful in preparing for interviews without having to look for in-person assessment prep courses. Clear, concise and structured feedback, tailored to current experience levels. It gave me ways to develop my answers and things to think about.”
Réshé Harrison
Pilot
Wherever you are in your career, there's an arc for you.
CaptainReady adapts to where you are now and where you're trying to go. Pick the arc that fits and we'll show you what Marcus does for someone at your stage.
→ Toward your first job
For career dreamers exploring the path for the first time, career changers pivoting in from another profession, cadets in training, new graduates, and pilots working toward their first job and first type rating.
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→ Toward command
For First Officers developing toward command and pilots preparing for command upgrade.
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→ Into instruction
For Captains moving into training and checking roles.
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→ Into leadership
For senior pilots moving toward flight operations leadership.
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How a session works.
You speak to Marcus.
Voice-led, like a real conversation. Marcus asks the questions a senior captain would ask in the panel, the debrief, or the viva. He listens, follows up, holds the line.
He knows you.
Marcus remembers what you worked on last time, the patterns he's flagged, the goals you've named. Every session builds on the last. You're not starting over each time.
You walk away with a scored debrief.
Within two minutes of session-end, your scored debrief lands on your dashboard. Strengths, weaknesses, specific quotes, and where Marcus thinks you should focus next.
The standard never moves. The friendship grows.
Calibrated to the same competencies real panels assess.
Selection panels and training departments across Europe assess pilots against a published competency framework. The same framework checkers use on the line, examiners use in the simulator, and panels use in the room. Leadership and teamwork. Communication. Problem-solving and decision-making. Situational awareness. These are the categories that decide whether you fly the left seat, whether you carry the operation, whether you teach the next generation.
Marcus is calibrated to the rubric. He asks the questions that probe each competency. He listens for the patterns that calibrated assessors listen for. He gives you back a scored debrief structured against the categories the panel will use on you for real.
Leadership & Teamwork.
How you carry the room when the room is yours to carry.
Communication.
How clearly your thinking lands when the stakes are real.
Problem-Solving & Decision-Making.
How you reason under uncertainty and how you defend that reasoning.
Situational Awareness.
How wide your picture is and how you keep it current.
The framework Marcus references is the same one used across European airline training and selection. No certification claim is made; the rubric is content-anchoring for how Marcus listens and scores.
The way I read a pilot.
Beneath the rubric sit three deeper layers. The competencies score the candidate. The layers read the pilot. Marcus reads both.
Competency.
Whether handling, automation, procedures, reasoning, and awareness are commensurate with the seat and the stage.
Personality.
Whether the captain in the room wants to be downroute with you.
Command potential.
Whether the panel can already see the future captain in the candidate in front of them.
Built by a pilot who's been there.
Jason Jones
Type-Rated Captain
Instructor and examiner
Founder, CaptainReady
Twenty-one years on the line. Two books on airline pilot selection. Instructor and examiner work that put me on both sides of the marking sheet. CaptainReady is the product I wish had existed at every stage of my own career, and that the pilots I respect most tell me they wish existed for them.
Marcus is the senior training captain who'd sit with you and run the conversation you need to have, calibrated to the standard the panel will hold you to.
What pilots have said about Jason's earlier work
Verified Amazon reviews of the two books on airline pilot selection that Jason published before CaptainReady. The frameworks in the books are the foundation Marcus is calibrated to.
“My husband is now an FO in the UK, after using this book to help him with interviews while he was flying in Indonesia. An absolute must.”
Sabrina
Verified Amazon reviewer, How to Become an Airline Pilot
“Superb insight into what it actually takes. A true asset, for those trying to get started in a flying career, and those who already have one.”
A. Bradford
Airline First Officer
Verified Amazon reviewer, How to Become an Airline Pilot
“Bought this for my son who has just completed his cadet training with CTC Aviation. Very helpful text.”
Barry Leatham Prichard
Verified Amazon reviewer, How to Become an Airline Pilot
“Amazing how this thin book can contain so much good info. A really good complement to 'Ace the Technical Pilot Interview'.”
Kalinka
Verified Amazon reviewer, How to Become an Airline Pilot
“Highly recommend. The best and only.”
Marchaplin
Verified Amazon reviewer, How to Become an Airline Pilot
What you have access to.
Marcus
Voice-led, senior-captain register, confidential. Adapts to your stage. Remembers you between sessions.
A calibrated rubric
The same competency categories real panels and training departments use, anchored into how Marcus listens and scores.
Memory that compounds
Your patterns, your strengths, the things you've worked on, held across sessions. Each time you come back, you build on what came before.
Frontier AI
Claude Sonnet 4.6 for reasoning and feedback. ElevenLabs voice for the conversation. The best language and voice infrastructure available.
Three ways to start.
Free
Explore
One session per week. Real Marcus, real feedback, real dashboard. Try before you buy.
Subscription
Member
Eight sessions per month, full dossier, full feedback depth, session history compounds.
Lifetime, 100 seats
Founding Member
Pay once. No subscription ever. Everything in Member, for life. Plus the Founding cohort: private channel with the founder, shape the product as it grows, Founding Member badge. Limited to 100 founding seats.
Common questions.
Is my session confidential?
Yes. Sessions are encrypted, transcripts are held against your account only, and nothing about your sessions is shared, sold, or used to train external models. You can delete your data at any time.
What if I'm not preparing for a specific interview right now?
Marcus works as a development partner, not just an interview rehearsal. Pilots use CaptainReady to stay sharp between selection cycles, work on specific weaknesses surfaced from line checks, or prepare gradually for steps that are months or years away.
How is this different from talking to ChatGPT or other AI chatbots?
Marcus is voice-led, anchored to a senior-pilot register, and calibrated to the competency rubric real panels use. A general chatbot will give you generic answers. Marcus asks the questions the panel asks and listens for what the panel listens for. He also remembers you across sessions. Generic chatbots don't.
Can I trust the feedback?
The rubric is anchored to the competency categories real panels and training departments use across European airline training. The scoring is consistent, reproducible, and accompanied by specific quotes from your session so you can see exactly what Marcus flagged and why. We're transparent about what the score means and how it's calculated.
What devices does it work on?
Any modern browser on desktop or mobile, with microphone permission. No app to install. You'll need a quiet space and a working microphone.
Start your first session free.
Five minutes. No card needed. See whether Marcus is the training partner you've been missing.