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.

• Available in paperback for the first time
• A 'how-to-do-it' book with minimal theory
• Perfect landings mean safe landings.
  

If you are to get the most out of your flying lessons, from the point of view of instruction and value-for-money, you must be as mentally prepared as possible for each airborne training sortie. In order to achieve that aim, Oxford Aviation Training have created these interactive, graphically-rich, practical flying training briefings, especially for the student private pilot. The briefings, modelled on the long classroom briefings traditionally used in service flying training, provide a comprehensive treatment of the theory behind all the general handling flying lessons.

This CD-ROM, therefore, constitutes an invaluable training aid for the student PPL, the PPL flying instructor and for all those who simply wish to gain a deeper understanding of flying. By following the briefings on this CD-ROM, you benefit from Oxford's unrivaled flying training expertise, now delivered using the latest multi-media instructional techniques which make even the most awkward concept easy to grasp . There are 14 briefings, in all, packed with illustrations depicting countless scenarios typical of the PPL flying training programme.

Leighton Collins’ Takeoffs and Landings—the Crucial Maneuvers and Everything in Between provides expert, flight-tested techniques pilots need in these critical phases of flight, in every contingency of arrival and departure, VFR and IFR, single and twin, tricycle gear and taildragger. Now back in print, this revived aviation classic is about the realities of flying into and out of an airport, the practical matters of taking off and landing safely and skillfully, every time.

Collins’ classic text is full of analysis and insight into each and every takeoff and landing—not only why things happen, but how to manipulate the factors toward the desired results. Trim, control feel, flaring, correcting imperfections, airplane design characteristics, atmospheric conditions, pilot skill or lack thereof, airport design, flight trends — it's all in here, with emphasis throughout on stall/spin avoidance and the inherent risks of flying low and slow. Readers will find five different ways of touching down, three ways of landing crosswind, an excellent description of a light twin on takeoff with one engine out, and an account of a perfect flight and a good landing from takeoff roll to full stop.

Along with his more than half a century of personal experience, Collins shares tips and secrets from his observations of airline pilots during their routine check flights, reading military manuals, attending manufacturer’s flight training programs, and interviewing aviation’s think-tanks: Bob Buck, Fred Weick, Howard Piper, William Lear, etc. The book’s Foreword is by Wolfgang Langewiesche, author of Stick and Rudder. Collins’ son, aviation author Richard L. Collins, writes an opening note for the new printing, and the new photography throughout is by Tom Lippert.

Leighton Collins is reflected in this book: practical, personable, realistic, and authoritative. Leighton first soloed in 1929 in an open-cockpit biplane. He founded Air Facts magazine, which he edited and produced almost single-handedly for 35 years, a magazine widely recognized as the pioneering force for improvement of the aviation safety record. While he contributed a chapter to Stick and Rudder, Langewiesche’s classic flight manual, Takeoffs and Landings was the first book in Mr. Collins’ long writing career. Softcover, indexed, 300 pages.

• Effects of Controls, including throttle, flap and trim
• Straight and Level flight, achieving lateral balance.
• Turning, the Medium banked turn in level flight.
• Climbing, full power and pitch correction.
• Descending, with and without power.
• Slow flight, ten knots above stalling speed.
• Plus Aerobatcs, a demonstration of sheer excitement, fly in the cockpit for loops, rolls and spins, the ultimate achievement of the pilot as all his skills come together to produce this exhilarating experience.
• The contents of this DVD meet the requirements of the JAA European Private Pilot Licence Course.