A comprehensive book on total preflight preparation. An in-depth guide to flight planning and preventing pilot error.

Preflight planning

Engineering & Transportation

Fowler, Ron

Engineering

Collier-Macmillan Publishers

Diagrams, photographs, and expert advice guide pilots through basic precision and high-performance maneuvers and other moves seldom attempted in single-engine planes.

Flying the Commercial Flight Test

Science & Math

Technology

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Flying precision maneuvers in light airplanes

Delacorte Press/Eleanor Friede

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)

Making Perfect Landings in Light Airplanes

Transportation

Iowa State Pr

"Making Perfect Takeoffs" - in the style of its companion, "Making Perfect Landings" - addresses departure as a series of steps requiring total awareness of situation, airplane, and self. In both books, applied reasoning is encouraged, and pilots are taught to identify and assess circumstances and conditions, then implement appropriate procedures. Both are compact manuals that store easily in the cockpit. Chapters conclude with 'Preflight Reminders' and 'In-Flight Aids' summaries that present critical data at a glance, for quick reference on the ground and in the air.

Making Perfect Takeoffs in Light Airplanes

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.

Wiley/Blackwell

Piloting techniques on diverse topics are in this collection of stories from an experienced flight instructor's logbook. Ron Fowler accurately states, our skills of flight either improve or slowly erode, but they rarely remain unchanged.” Speaking pilot to pilot, the author picks up where initial pilot training leaves off. Lessons from the Logbook is a collection of stories that began as articles written for Plane &amp; Pilot magazine, and was previously published by Aviation Book Company. The book is organized to reflect all the phases of flight: preflight, departure, en route, and arrival, and concludes with a section on recurrent training. It provides piloting techniques on such diverse topics as night flying; what to do when you get stuck above or below a cloud deck; how to handle in-flight emergencies; evaluating real-life takeoff performance; pursuing a path to perfect flying; and much, much more. Ron Fowler is the ideal flight instructorexperienced, patient, and entertaining, with excellent communication skills. Although readers may never have an opportunity to fly with him, his gentle guidance will stick with them: first when they read the pages that share the author's expertise, to be recalled again when they have a similar experience. Lessons from the Logbook will inspire readers to improve their flying skills, and more importantly, motivate them to take to the sky.

Lessons from the Logbook: Flying Techniques from the Best Teacher of All: Experience

Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc.

Guilty by Circumstance

Fowlers Creations

"A nonfiction array of 1937-41 historical narratives from an isolated lumber town, and whimsical writings from the talented stubby pencil of a nine-year old editor."

Valsetz Star: Whimsical 1940's Writings by a Nine-Year Old Newspaper Editor in an Isolated Oregon Lumber Town

History

Hobson, Dorothy Anne

Americas

Flower-Child Pub

Teaches absolute precision in takeoff procedures and discusses several takeoff scenarios a pilot may encounter. 

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Preflight planning

Flying the Commercial Flight Test

Flying precision maneuvers in light airplanes

Making Perfect Landings in Light Airplanes

Making Perfect Takeoffs in Light Airplanes

Making Perfect Landings in Light Airplanes

Lessons from the Logbook: Flying Techniques from the Best Teacher of All: Experience

Guilty by Circumstance

Valsetz Star: Whimsical 1940's Writings by a Nine-Year Old Newspaper Editor in an Isolated Oregon Lumber Town

Making Perfect Takeoffs in Light Airplanes