Flying an airplane can be considered a form of human expression. A pilot's skill, the manner in which the flight is planned and executed, and regard for safety are revealing personality traits. Those skills and ability to executer are not easily acquired. Fly the Wing discusses the basics and fundamentals that pilots must ...

Newly published and expanded is this 2003/4 Pilot's Guide from Clive Hughes. This superb guide explains the intricacies of obtaining an Airline Transport Pilot Licence by the many routes available from your first PPL onwards. It has resisted the temptation to pad it out with a lot of irrelevant verbiage just to make it thick...

This manual provides the most important information needed in the performance of multi-functional tasks required by a modern jet, and its knowledge about the performance and limitations of its human crew. Trained to allocate our order of priorities as: aviate; navigate; and communicate; no longer is it that simple. Less skill a...

A reference book that follows the ATPL syllabus for aeroplanes and helicopters, so you can use it before, during and after your exams, for the whole of your career! People waiting to start a course, or keeping current while waiting for a job to turn up will find it useful, since the usual study materials are not easy to read ...

Operational Procedures include the requirements for the issue of an Air Operator's Certificate (AOC), Flight Operations and Planning, Low Visibility Operations, and Transoceanic Flight. A significant part of the volume covers Special Operational Procedures and Hazards such as icing, fire, wind shear, wake turbulence, pressuris...

This reprint of the FAA Instrument Rating PTS contains the standards for adding a commercial rating to an airplane, helicopter, or powered lift certificate....

The book covers the commercial skill test for aeroplanes as it would progress on your test day. The key to safe flying, productive flying lessons and your successful JAA CPL(A) skill test, is good preparation. This book should be read in full to prepare you for your CPL flying training and each section can be used to assist yo...

A book that has very little to do with flying, but everything to do with being a pilot - and the sort of training and information you need after you pass your licence exams, but don't always get, covering the practical and admin sides of flying aeroplanes and helicopters. If you're a corporate pilot, with no Public Transport ex...

Based on the author's soon-to-be-approved JAA ATPL(H)(V) course, this book provides all the material required for the JAA exams, including the PPL(H), CPL(H) and ATPL(H), plus a few extras, like the Instrument Rating. The book has been specially designed for the needs of professional or military pilots seeking to gain an alter...

If your dream is to be an airline pilot, or you would like to know what it takes, this book reflects the experiences, thoughts and findings of a trainee pilot throughout the journey that took him into the right-hand seat of a jet airliner.The book covers everything that you need to consider before and during the training proce...