This comprehensive guide introduces the basic skills and essential knowledge required for piloting airplanes. Student pilots, pilots preparing for additional certificates and ratings, those wishing to improve their flying proficiency and aeronautical knowledge, and flight instructors will all benefit from this book. The new Second Edition updates and expands the existing material from the previous 1999 edition, while incorporating new areas of safety concerns and technical information not previously covered.
The Airplane Flying Handbook features full-color illustrations and photographs throughout, as well as straight-forward discussions and explanations for:
- Introduction to flight training
- Ground operations (including runway incursion avoidance techniques)
- Basic flight, ground reference, and performance maneuvers (including positive transfer of control for 2-pilot operations)
- Slow flight, stalls and spins
- Takeoff and departure climbs
- Airport traffic patterns
- Approaches and landings
- Night operations
- Transition to complex, multiengine, tailwheel, turboprop and jet airplanes
- Greatly expanded "Emergency Operations" section
Required reading for more than 30 years, this book is the official FAA source for learning to fly, and many test questions for the FAA Knowledge Exams for pilots come from this reference.
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This book makes an excellent companion to the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (ASA-8083-25); the 8083-25 covers the theory, and the 8083-3A covers the skills required to be a pilot. These two items can be purchased in one heck of a deal as the Airplane Pilot Combo Package. Along with greater savings over purchasing these titles individually, readers will also receive two laminated quick-reference cards with information pertinent to VFR flying, and sized to fit a kneeboard or approach plate binder.Soft cover, glossary, indexed, full-color illustrations and photography, 8-3/8" x 10-7/8" format, 280 pages.
NOTE: This version of the FAA-H-8083-3A is not the same as the Jeppesen "FAA-H-8083-3" version. This ASA edition does NOT include seaplanes, nor ski-planes, nor does it have the latest "Emergency Operations" section. This edition contains information for transitioning to turbine-powered airplanes, which the earlier one does not. If you need seaplane or ski-plane information, use the Jeppesen version.