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The Thinking Pilot's Flight Manual: Or, How to Survive Flying Little Airplanes and Have a Ball DoingIt

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The Thinking Pilot's Flight Manual: Or, How to Survive Flying Little Airplanes and Have a Ball DoingItIn a provocative and sometimes controversial style, this guide starts where standard issue flight training manuals leave off. The Thinking Pilot guides you deeply into topics that weren't taught in flight training everything from how to really do a preflight, through keeping your passengers happy, scud running, precautionary landings, and how to survive a crash. It includes a detailed introduction to flying floats, skis, aerobatics, and classic

In a provocative and sometimes controversial style, this guide starts where standard-issue flight training manuals leave off. The Thinking Pilot guides you deeply into topics that weren't taught in flight training-everything from how to really do a preflight, through keeping your passengers happy, scud running, precautionary landings, and how to survive a crash. It includes a detailed introduction to flying floats, skis, aerobatics, and classic airplanes; probes some of aviation's dirty little secrets, explodes myths, and presents the best, most succinct guide to flying tailwheel airplanes ever written. Rick Durden was once described as aviation's Renaissance Man. He is an Airline Transport-rated pilot with experience in some 200 types of airplanes, a practicing aviation attorney who has been involved in hundreds of aircraft accident cases, writer, aviation magazine editor, safety counselor, flight instructor, volunteer pilot in remote areas of the U.S. and Central America, and has been the executive director of a nonprofit conservation organization making use of aircraft and volunteer pilots throughout much of North America.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Renaissance Aviation Publishing
Published: 01/20/2012
ISBN: 9780983422204
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.86d
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