This new 8th edition is updated to the new JAR syllabus 'The Air Pilot's Manual' series by Trevor Thom have become internationally recognised as the foremost pilot training textbooks. With new, easy to read page layouts and excellent, clear computer generated graphics throughout they offer the student the best opportunity for easy learning of the Flying and Ground subjects for the Private Pilot Licence and will always provide excellent revision for the qualified pilot. They are standard issue for flying training organisations in the United Kingdom and throughout the World
Contents of this volume
Volume 1 covers: Flying Training and includes: The Aeroplane - Before and After Flight - Your First Solo - The Controls - Taxying - Straight and Level - Climbing - Descending - Turning - Stalling and Slow Flight - Spinning - Standard Take-Off and Climb to Downwind Leg - Circuit Operations, Approach and Landing - First Solo - Advanced Turning - Low Level Flying - Forced Landing - Pilot Navigation - Flight Instruments
Air Pilot's Manual Volume 2 - Aviation Law & Meteorology
Thom's series of books are an essential part of any UK PPL's library. Air Law and Meteorology are very important, and Thom makes a good presentation of both up to the level required for PPL
Updated to the new JAR syllabus 'The Air Pilot's Manual' series by Trevor Thom have become internationally recognised as the foremost pilot training textbooks. With new, easy to read page layouts and excellent, clear computer generated graphics throughout they offer the student the best opportunity for easy learning of the Flying and Ground subjects for the Private Pilot Licence and will always provide excellent revision for the qualified pilot. They are standard issue for flying training organisations in the United Kingdom and throughout the World
Contents of this volume
Volume 2 covers Aviation Law and Meteorology and includes: Rules of the Air - Altimeter Setting - Airspace, Visual and Instrument Flight Rules - Distress, Search and Rescue - Documentation - Private Pilot Licence - Fit to Fly - In-Flight Medical Factors - First Aid - The Atmosphere - Wind - Cloud - Thunderstorms - Air Mass - Icing - Visibility - Weather Forecasts and Reports.
This is Volume 3 in a series of seven from Trevor Thom and covers the tricky subject of Air Navigation and again like it's predesesors it is marvellous. If you are taking a PPL, this book is an absolute must as it contains most of the syllabus and is a great guide into navigation.
Updated to the new JAR syllabus 'The Air Pilot's Manual' series by Trevor Thom have become internationally recognised as the foremost pilot training textbooks. With new, easy to read page layouts and excellent, clear computer generated graphics throughout they offer the student the best opportunity for easy learning of the Flying and Ground subjects for the Private Pilot Licence and will always provide excellent revision for the qualified pilot. They are standard issue for flying training organisations in the United Kingdom and throughout the World
Contents of this volume
Volume 3 covers Air Navigation and includes:
Basic Navigation Theory - Speed - Direction Navigation Computer - Vertical Navigation Time - The Earth - Aero-Nautical Charts Flight Planning - Pre-Flight - Route Selection and Charts - Flight Log - Flight Plan En-Route Navigation - Techniques - Navigation in Remote Areas - Entry/Exit Lanes
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Air Pilot's Manual Volume 4 - The Aeroplane Technical
Now in Full-Colour. Over 100,00 copies sold, this is the 4th of 7 volumes in a leading and most highly respected series of manuals for the training of private pilots.
Constantly updated, edited and revised, by a highly qualified team headed by Captain Peter Godwin, a current Flying Instructor (FI), Flight Instructor Examiner (FIE), Instrument Rating Examiner, and CAA CPL examiner. Thus making this series, a long recognised comprehensive reference available to both the student and instructor and is the standard reference for the CAA PPL examinations.
Contents of this volume
Volume 4 covers the Aeroplane Technical and includes:
Principles of Flight - Airframes - Engines - Fuel and Oil Systems - Electrical - Undercarriage and Brakes - Pressure and Gyroscopic Instruments - Magnetic Compass - Airframe Limitations - Airworthiness - Performance.
Tackling one of the more difficult of the disciplines, Trevor Thom once again excels himself as the master of explanation. This book has helped thoudsands get to grips with navigation, including all here at Flightstore.
Highly recommended reading.
Updated to the new JAR syllabus 'The Air Pilot's Manual' series by Trevor Thom have become internationally recognised as the foremost pilot training textbooks. With new, easy to read page layouts and excellent, clear computer generated graphics throughout they offer the student the best opportunity for easy learning of the Flying and Ground subjects for the Private Pilot Licence and will always provide excellent revision for the qualified pilot. They are standard issue for flying training organisations in the United Kingdom and throughout the World
Contents of this volume
Volume 5 Radio Navigation and Instrument Flying and includes:
Radio Navigation - Cockpit Flight Instruments - Instrument Flying - IMC Rating - Night Rating. This volume is particularly popular with Private Pilots wishing to learn and improve all aspects of instrument flying theory and practice to Instrument Rating standard.
Updated to the new JAR syllabus 'The Air Pilot's Manual' series by Trevor Thom have become internationally recognised as the foremost pilot training textbooks. With new, easy to read page layouts and excellent, clear computer generated graphics throughout they offer the student the best opportunity for easy learning of the Flying and Ground subjects for the Private Pilot Licence and will always provide excellent revision for the qualified pilot. They are standard issue for flying training organisations in the United Kingdom and throughout the World
Contents of this volume
Volume 6 covers Human Factors and Pilot Performance and includes:
Human Physiology and High Altitudes - Eyesight and Visual Illusions - Hearing and Balance - Am I Fit to Fly? - Stress Management - Fatigue and Sleep - Information Processing - Judgement and Decision Making - Flight Deck.
The last in the 7 volumes by Trevor Thom discusses Radio Telephony and the general principles of how radio works. Fully updated this is essential reading for the completion of your PPL
Updated to the new JAR syllabus 'The Air Pilot's Manual' series by Trevor Thom have become internationally recognised as the foremost pilot training textbooks. With new, easy to read page layouts and excellent, clear computer generated graphics throughout they offer the student the best opportunity for easy learning of the Flying and Ground subjects for the Private Pilot Licence and will always provide excellent revision for the qualified pilot. They are standard issue for flying training organisations in the United Kingdom and throughout the World
Contents of this volume
Volume 7 covers Radio telephony and includes:
Radio telephony Language and Procedures - Emergency and Radio Failure - How Radio Works - Example Flights in Controlled and Uncontrolled Airspace - Exercises and Answers.
The written exams of the PPL course are a challenge for any pilot, and the questions are not getting any easier! Questions and Answers for the PPL Course allows the exam candidate to practice and evaluate their knowledge of each exam subject against a series of question papers written to the same style and manner as the actual exams with the same format, time limits and marking system. It is unique in giving answer references back to the popular PPL Course series for further study and revision. This 2000 edition is the only up-to-date publication of its kind, and the only one suitable for the JAR examinations (which are also used for the NPPL course). Many thousands of pilots have passed their written exams with the help of AFE's Questions and Answers books and you could too!
Air Law and Operational Procedures
Meteorology
Navigation
Aircraft Technical
Flight Performance and Planning
Human Factors
Radiotelephony
Fully up-to-date to be used with the current JAR-PPL/NPPL written examinations.
Test papers with the same style, format, time limits and marking system as the real exams
Includes detailed explanations for each model answer
Test and refresh your knowledge, identify weak areas, prepare to pass!
The Pilots Free Flight Atlas is the first atlas designed to allow pilots to see immediately where they are positioned in relation to airports, objects of the ground and airway structures.
Topographical charts in the JNC scale show over 4,500 NDB’s, waypoints, VOR/DME and special use airspace.
Absolute Zero have also included points of interest (POI’s), landmarks, railways, rivers, major highways, weather frequencies and an airport-directory with ICAO-codes. .
The airports within this Pilots Atlas for Europe are colour coded by runway length and surface. Aerodromes are coded by symbol shape. This gives pilots the ability to identify objects on the ground and know immediately where they are positioned in relation to airports or points of interest. .
7 double-pages overview maps containing the following areas: .
1 double pages Pacific routes.
1 double pages Australia routes .
1 double page North Atlantic routes.
1 double page African continent.
2 double pages Asia routes to Japan.
1 double page North pole and star chart … and.
4 pages Satellite picture Europe & Asia with main winds average, .
2 pages Europe & Asia political map, 1 page star chart, 1 page polar chart, .
2 pages time zones with web-suffixes.
39 pages of aeronautical information updated with the latest JAA information.
To the Airport Directory in the Captains Corner, Absolute Zero have added the coordinates : . .
(Lat / Long) for every airport
World Aircraft Registration
Volmet-Broadcasts
Weather Symbols
Metar
Climb Gradients
Conversion Tables
Crosswind Component
Holding, Aerodrome Operating Minima
De-icing Table
Aerodrome Signs and Signals and Abbreviations
Prepare for take off!
LOOP presents FLIGHTTEST 2009, another stunning collection of the best of our flight tests, featuring the some of the world’s best aircraft alongside dazzling photography and peerless writing.
FLIGHTTEST 2009 is a collector’s special that brings together more than 20 brilliant aircraft and helicopters from our standard-setting tests in a specially-designed and published bookazine, bursting with spectacular unseen pictures and detail.
The 'IMC Confuser' is the only book available covering the IMC ground examination and anyone wishing to pass the IMC examinations first time should own one! Soft. 120 pages.ation that is the most important and invaluable singular source of reference representing ALL questions sppearing in the current set of CAA IMC examination papers together with their appropriate multi choice answers. As in 'The PPL Confuser' answers are uniquely explained and illustrated to fully enlighten you as to why a particular answer is the correct choice. Flight plans and practice answer sheets together with extracts from official publications are also included. The 'IMC Confuser' is the only book available covering the IMC ground examination and anyone wishing to pass the IMC examinations first time should own one! .
This book, together with its sister product, the “PPL PERFECTOR INTERACTIVE CD ROM”, set new standards for PPL study materials.
A5 format, Prefect Bound, 420 pages with full colour illustrations. The navigation section is based on the use of POOLEYS CRP5 Navigation Computer.
These products are intended both to enable students to pass their JAR PPL Examinations in the shortest possible time, and to develop a thorough understanding of the subject material.
Contains real JAR PPL questions taken from current examination papers, plus detailed explanations, many with full colour illustrations.
Step-by-step solutions are provided for all calculations and navigation exercises.
