Aircraft Performance provides a concise but readable set of notes which covers the majority of the JAR syllabus, while emphasizing the operational significance of aircraft performance. To enable this book to stand alone, fundamental mathematics, principles of flight, and engine theory are given in the initial chapters. These chapters are written to either introduce the fundamental theoretical knowledge required to support the main performance chapters.

• Single-Engine Aeroplanes - Not certified under JAR/FAR 25 (Performance Class B)
• Multi-Engine Aeroplanes - Not certified under JAR/FAR 25 (Performance Class B)
• Aeroplanes certified under JAR/FAR 25 (Performance Class A)

Each chapter contains diagrams and worked examples to aid understanding. It finishes with JAR type questions to both check understanding and familiarise you with the type of question likely to be found in the JAR examination.

This new 2005 manual is part of the most current set of JAA ATPL training books on the market. The philosophy of these manuals is to train pilots to fly safely and competently, not just pass the exams. To this end, the material is thorough and comprehensive, yet the books utilise full-color graphics and diagrams that make complex topics easier to grasp. The complete set of 15 volumes contains nearly 4,000 pages.

This CD-ROM on Aircraft Performance is designed to help students gain a detailed knowledge of all aspects of aeroplane performance in preparation for the JAA/EASA Airline Transport Pilot's Licence examination.
The course brings together the world-renowned technical and teaching expertise of Oxford Aviation Training’s specialist ground and flying instructors, and the multimedia design talents of OATmedia.

Following this interactive, multimedia course should enable student professional pilots to learn what Aircraft Performance is all about, more effectively, more enjoyably and more rapidly than ever before. We hope, too, that the course it will be valuable both to General Aviation pilots who wish to expand their knowledge of aircraft performance, and to qualified airline transport pilots in fulfilling their recurrent training requirements and improving their knowledge of performance theory.

• Introduction to:
  Classes of Aircraft
• Performance Standards
• Airfields
  
  Performance Principles for Aircraft Classes A and B in:
• Take-off
• Climb
• Descent
• En-Route
• Landing
  

This computer based training course in Gas Turbines teaches the subject of gas turbine engines up to and beyond the standard required by the EASA/JAA Air Transport Pilot's Licence (ATPL) syllabus. Gas Turbines together with its companion CD-ROM, Aircraft Piston Engines covers the complete EASA/JAA ATPL Powerplant syllabus. The two CD-ROMs together contain over 500 ATPL-style questions and answers on the subject, Powerplant.
This Gas Turbines course also covers all EASA/JAA objectives for the ATPL helicopter gas turbine syllabus, except for those pertaining specifically to helicopter engine intakes.

Though Gas Turbines is meant primarily for student professional pilots, it will also be valuable to student aircraft engineers and technicians as a high-quality introduction to the subject of Gas Turbines. General Aviation pilots who wish to learn more about aircraft systems should also find much to interest them here.
The course includes many examples using 3D and 2D graphics, animations and photographs, enabling the students to learn more effectively than ever before. In-depth lessons, written with the technical and teaching expertise of Oxford Aviation Training's world-renowned ground instructors. The lessons are narrated in clear English throughout and are supported by textual key points.

• Compressors
• Combustion chambers
• Turbine Assembly
• Reverse Thrust
• Fuel Systems
• Performance
• Engine Instrumentation
• Propellers
  

This book, the second in the series, has been produced primarily to assist an applicant for a Private Pilot's Licence in the study for the Flight Performance and Planning examination. It is not intended as a complete course of study, but is designed to act as a guide to the main points in the syllabus. However, it is also intended to help those who have already passsed the examination by giving them a document to which they can refer in order to achieve safe and practical flight planning.

The most important parts , especially those relating directly to safety, are covered in detail. However, the coverage of parts which the author considers less vital is only sufficient to give a basic understanding of general structure. To cover the whole syllabus, or indeed to fly with a high level of safety, more detailed knowledge is required, and pilots should strive to learn as much about their aircraft and its environment as possible. Pilots must refer to the Flight Manual and other documents for accuracy and confirmation before flight. This is especially true because this book is not normally amended as legislation changes.

For a pilot, the study of Human performance and Limitations is crucial to an understanding of the central role played by the human factor in promoting safety and efficiency in flying operations. A thorough understanding of this subject is essential if you are to develop the high standards of airmanship required of all those who fly, whether as a private or professional pilot. In this interactive computer-based training (CBT) course, we aim to teach you the essentials of what you need to know about the interaction between the human being, his aircraft and the flying environment.

A thorough examination of the demands of the flying environment on the human organism will illustrate to you the obligation on all pilots to keep fit and to lead a healthy life style if they are to operate efficiently and safely in the air. The course also covers the basic psychological considerations of piloting, by stressing the demands that flying places on a pilot's faculties of perception, communication, judgement and decision making, and by pointing out some important limitations of those faculties.

This CBT course aims to teach you, as efficiently and enjoyably as possible, what you need to know to help ensure that you never become a human factor in any aircraft accident. At the same time, being fully compliant with the JAA PPL theoretical knowledge syllabus, it will assist you in the more mundane, but nonetheless important, task of preparing for your PPL ground examinations in Human Performance and Limitations.

• The Atmosphere
• The Human Body
• Effects of Partial Pressure
• Vision
• Hearing
• Flying & Health
• The Information Process
• The Central Decision
• Channel
• Verbal Communication
• The Cockpit
  

The study of Aviation Meteorology is a fundamental part of any pilot training. A thorough understanding of weather theory and the ability to interpret weather briefing documents are absolutely essential to all private pilots to ensure that, throughout their flying careers, they can make informed and accurate decisions about how prevailing or forecast weather conditions will affect flying operations. Above all, a full understanding of how the weather influences aircraft operations is crucial to flight safety.

This interactive, multimedia computer-based training (CBT) course in Aviation Meteorology will enable private pilots to learn more effectively and enjoyably than ever before, all they need to know about the weather, in order to fly safely and expeditiously, and to pass their JAA PPL or UK NPPL theoretical knowledge examinations.

• The Atmosphere
• Pressure
• Temperature
• Altimetry
• Humidity & Adiabatic Stability
• Turbulence
• Clouds, Thunderstorms & Precipitation
• Low Level Winds
• Visibility
• Aircraft Icing
• Airmasses & Fronts
• METAR's & TAF's
• Spot Wind Charts
• Low Level & High Level Charts
• SIGMET's, AIRMET's, VOLMET's & ATIS