Piloting category: 262 books
Engine Out Survival Tactics
Fighter Pilot Tactics for General Aviation Engine Loss Emergencies
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Are you prepared to handle an engine loss event in your single engine piston aircraft? Are you current and trained in all aspects of the General Aviation engine loss situation? What is your best glide speed, best glide ratio? Do you know where High Key is? Did you know that about 30% of all General Aviation...
by Helen Krasner
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
This is the third collection of articles from flying instructor Helen Krasner's popular column in the publication "Flight Training News". Written at various times over the period 2006 - 2011, this book is aimed at anyone who is interested in helicopter flying, but should be particularly...
Lesson Plans to Train Like You Fly
A flight instructor's reference for scenario-based training
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This guide for flight instructors presents lesson plans in the form of scenario-based “maneuver briefings.” A rich resource for active instructors, these lesson plans are also helpful to CFI applicants preparing their own materials. Lesson Plans can also be used as a companion book for flight...
by David L. Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
A user-friendly handbook for performing the impossible. THE most NEGLECTED area of information in ALL of aviation!
Remote Pilot Airman Certification Standards
FAA-S-ACS-10A, for Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
This ACS book from the FAA lists the standards and requirements for the Remote Pilot Certificate, issued for operating drones and small unmanned aircraft systems in the National Airspace System. The new Airman Certification Standards are ideal for checkride preparation, and will help applicants develop...
The Pilot's Manual: Multi-Engine Flying
All the aeronautical knowledge required to earn a multi-engine rating on your pilot certificate
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
This is the Ebook (epub) edition of this title.
Multi-engine flying opens up new opportunities to utilize an airplane for personal or professional transportation, allowing you to cruise faster, carry more passengers or cargo, and in most cases, fly higher and in greater comfort. With this enhanced...
by Gregg Brightwell
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
This is the eBook (epub) edition of this title.Earning a flight instructor certificate (CFI) from the FAA is challenging and requires an immense amount of training and preparation and this book clarifies, in plain language, exactly what flight instructor applicants must know and demonstrate during the...
A Pilot's Accident Review (Kindle edition)
An in-depth look at high-profile accidents that shaped aviation rules and procedures
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
This is the eBook (epub) edition of this title.In A Pilot’s Accident Review, starting on the premise that we often learn best by reviewing the mistakes of others, author John Lowery compiles an in-depth analysis of high-profile-as well as some not so well-known-aviation accidents. He illustrates the...
by William K. Kershner
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
This is the Ebook (ePub) Edition of this title.
The ultimate volume in the Kershner Flight Manuals Series, The Advanced Pilot's Flight Manual is for pilots transitioning to advanced models and types, and preparing for their Commercial Pilot knowledge and flight tests. It bridges the gap between...
by E. Packer Wilbur
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Juliet and Zulu are both Master Flight Instructors. They will guide you through this book which is an essential reference summarizing the basic knowledge used by Private Pilots to fly under visual flight rules (VFR) worldwide. It is written not only for Private Pilots, Sport Pilots and flight students,...
Trials and Errors
Experimental UK Test Flying in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Following his success as a Cold War Canberra pilot, Mike Brooke was dispatched to become a flying instructor at the Central Flying School in the 1970s. After this interesting career spell, he moved on to undertake the demanding training regime at the UK's Empire Test Pilots' School in order for him...
by John Deans
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
All across America, people are learning to fly. Drones are taking to the skies to help in search-and-rescue, industry, journalism and hobbies. While drones look like toys, they are anything but. They require the discipline of a pilot and the legal support of a license. But how do you get approved...
Build a Drone
A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing, Constructing, and Flying Your Very Own Drone
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Within the last couple of years, the usage of drones in both the public and private (military) sector has exploded. People are talking about drones, building drones, and something most people didn’t know of a few years ago is now a household name.
Build a Drone will not only teach you how...
Up the Airway
Coastal British Columbia Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
Flying Coastal British Columbia, where mountains drop into the sea and people practice self-reliance and a different sense of purpose. Airports in British Columbia, along with Arctic destinations, are featured. Contrarian views of the people and places of coastal British Columbia, and off-the-grid living....