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

Durden, Rick; Wagstaff, Patty (FRW)

ISBN 10: 0983422206 / ISBN 13: 9780983422204

Published by Renaissance Aviation Publishing, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thinking Pilot's Flight Manual : Or, How to Survive Flying Little Airplanes and Have a Ball Doing It
• Publisher: Renaissance Aviation Publishing
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0983422206
• ISBN 13: 9780983422204
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.