Making Perfect Landings in Light Airplanes

Shows how pilots can develop a keen sense of awareness to recognize and understand different landing situations and evaluate the airplane's capacity to meet each challenge. Presents and defines specific landing situations and discusses factors that influence landings, covering crosswind procedures, short- and soft-field operations, night landings, emergency landings, and landing tailwheel airplanes. B&w drawings and photos help readers break down the landing process into simple steps. The author has written several other works on flying. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This book aims to develop in pilots a keen sense of awareness in each of the three major areas of the landing procedure: recognition of the landing situation and understanding its true nature, knowledge of how to meet and weigh each task required against personal skill and limitation, and ability to evaluate the airplane's capacity to meet challenge. Each chapter presents and defines a specific landing situation so that pilots can quickly recognise it in the cockpit and institute corrective procedures.