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Piloting & Flight Instruction eBooks

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  • Airplane Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-3A)

    The Federal Aviation Administration’s Airplane Flying Handbook provides pilots, student pi-lots, aviation instructors, and aviation specialists with information on every topic needed to qualify for and excel in the field of aviation. Topics covered include: ground operations, cockpit management, the four fundamentals of flying, integrated flight control, slow flights, stalls, spins, takeoff, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Few

    The Story of the Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots

    by Dilip Sarkar ...
    The Battle of Britain started on 10 July 1940, ending 16 weeks later on 31 October 1940. The Luftwaffe’s intention was to destroy Fighter Command, domination of the skies being crucial to Hitler’s invasion plan. During that fateful summer, young RAF fighter pilots, flying Spitfires and Hurricanes, were scrambled time and time again to face insuperable odds – and the Luftwaffe was, until that point ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Being Human in Safety-Critical Organisations

    If human error only starts to explain how accidents happen in complex, adaptive systems, what does the rest of the explanation look like? And what can be done as a result? If complex systems are fundamentally different from merely complicated ones, what does this mean for us – the people who have to live and work in them?Through a re-analysis of real events, this book integrates recent thinking ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Human Factors: Enhancing Pilot Performance

    by Dale Wilson ...
    Today’s aviation industry enjoys a remarkable safety record, primarily because it has learned from the mistakes of its past. Through the study of aviation accidents, most of the risks of flying have been identified and the threats they pose to safety can be managed. However, aircraft accidents, such as controlled flight into terrain, loss of control, runway excursions and incursions, and midair ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Aviator's Field Guide to Tailwheel Flying

    Practical skills and tips for flying a taildragger

    by Jason Blair ...
    In "An Aviator's Field Guide to Tailwheel Flying," author Jason Blair shares his experience in a variety of tailwheel-equipped aircraft. This book describes major phases of flight and considerations that transitioning or tailwheel pilots may find useful as they look to increase their proficiency. The discussion goes beyond the physical flying skills into other tailwheel aspects, such as ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voyage of the Southern Sun

    An Amazing Solo Journey Around the World

    by Michael Smith ...
    Michael Smith spent 20 years restoring Melbourne’s beloved Sun Theatre and becoming one of Australia’s last independent cinema operators. He then set off on a rather different journey: to become the first person to fly solo around the world in an amphibious plane.With limited flying experience, no support team and only basic instruments in his tiny flying boat, the Southern Sun, Smith risked his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Alarmstart: The German Fighter Pilot's Experience in the Second World War

    Northwestern Europe – from the Battle of Britain to the Battle of Germany

    Alarmstart (scramble) charts the experiences of the German fighter pilots in the Second World War, based on extensive recollections of veterans as well as primary documents, diaries and flying log books, with photographs from the veterans themselves, many never previously published. For anyone interested in the air war 1939‒45, the information provided is of inestimable value. There are no more ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Flight Instructor's Survival Guide

    true, witty, insightful stories illustrating the fundamentals of instructing

    After passing the FAA’s Fundamentals of Instructing (FOI) knowledge test required of all instructors, the true challenge begins—applying that knowledge in the real world of teaching flight. Follow along as Arlynn McMahon lifts the FOI principles from the classroom and brings them into the cockpit. Her forty-four stories demonstrate the FOI principles in flight and offer practical strategies for ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • FAR/AIM 2018: Up-to-Date FAA Regulations / Aeronautical Information Manual

    Series series FAR/AIM Federal Aviation Regulations
    All the information you need to operate safely in US airspace, fully updated.If you’re an aviator or aviation enthusiast, you cannot be caught with an out-of-date edition of the FAR/AIM. In today’s environment, there is no excuse for ignorance of the rules of the US airspace system. In the newest edition of the FAR/AIM, all regulations, procedures, and illustrations are brought up to date to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Airman Knowledge Testing Supplement for Sport Pilot, Recreational Pilot, Remote Pilot, and Private Pilot (FAA-CT-8080-2H)

    THE DEFINITIVE TOOL FOR AIRMAN KNOWLEDGE EXAM STUDY IN 2023, DEVELOPED BY FAA EXPERTSThis testing supplement was designed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Flight Standards Service and intended for use by Airman Knowledge Testing (AKT) administrators in the following knowledge areas:Sport Pilot: Airplane (ASEL and ASES), Gyroplane, Glider, Airship (LTA), Balloon, Weight-Shift Control ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Build a Drone

    A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing, Constructing, and Flying Your Very Own Drone

    by Barry Davies ...
    Within the last couple of years, the usage of drones in both the public and private (military) sector has exploded. People are talking about drones, building drones, and something most people didn’t know of a few years ago is now a household name.Build a Drone will not only teach you how to build your very own drone, but will explain their history in the military and the impact they will have-and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Instrument Flying

    The fourth edition of the perennial best-seller. Fully updated, with everything the private pilot needs to know about flying IFR, such as handling emergencies, filing flight plans, understanding IFR communications, navigating, and flying more efficiently. Polish and improve your instrument-flight skills with the proficiency exercises. Glossary of aviation terms included. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • A Separate Little War

    The BANFF Coastal Command Strike Wing Versus the Kreigsmarine and Luftwaffe 1944 - 1945

    Every day for nine months from September 1944, young British Commonwealth and Norwegian airmen flew from Banff, Fraserburgh and Peterhead in northern Scotland to target German U-boats, merchant men and freighters in the fjords and leads of southwest Norway, encountering the Luftwaffe and flakships every step of the way. Truly this was a war within a war, bitter and bloody, at low level and close ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • FAR/AIM 2022: Up-to-Date FAA Regulations / Aeronautical Information Manual

    Series series FAR/AIM Federal Aviation Regulations
    All the Information You Need to Operate Safely in US Airspace, Fully UpdatedIf you’re an aviator or aviation enthusiast, you cannot be caught with an out-of-date edition of the FAR/AIM. In the newest edition of the FAR/AIM, all regulations, procedures, and illustrations are brought up to date to reflect current federal regulations and FAA data, policies, and advisories. This handy reference book ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Taildragger Tales: My Late-Blooming Romance with a Piper Cub and Her Younger Sisters

    by Daniel Ford ...
    Dan Ford learned to fly at the age when most men are well into retirement. In this short book, he tells how it was to have a flight instructor one-third his age, to make a Sentimental Journey to the Pennsylvania airport where the Piper Cub first saw the light of day, to practice spins and aerobatic turns in a Great Lakes biplane, to fly low and slow in New Jersey, to make a leisurely tour around ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Training Circular TC 3-04.52 (TC 1-219) Aircrew Training Manual, Reconnaissance Airplane, RC-12 Series July 2013

    Training Circular (TC) 3-04.52 consolidates Guardrail and Guardrail/common sensor (GRCS) aircraft into one aircrew training manual (ATM) and standardizes aircrew training programs (ATPs) and flight evaluation procedures. This manual provides specific guidelines for executing RC-12 series aircrew training. The RC-12 ATM establishes crewmember qualification training, refresher training, mission ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Dam Busters

    In the Words of the Bomber Crews

    It was not long before midnight on 17 May 1943 when the inhabitants of Gunne, the German village close to the Mohne Dam, heard the airraid warnings. It was widely regarded as a precautionary measure, but ninety minutes later, an immense tidal-wave was roaring down the valley towards them. Guy Gibson, who led 'X' Squadron of 19 specially adapted Lancasters equipped with Barnes Wallis's 'bouncing ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Aircraft Dispatcher Oral Exam Guide

    Prepare for the FAA oral and practical exam to earn your Aircraft Dispatcher certificate

    Series series Oral Exam Guide series
    The information in this book will serve you well on your exciting career path as an Aircraft Dispatcher: a critical link in air safety and a viable career option for many aviators.An Aircraft Dispatcher (ADX) is a licensed airman certificated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), typically employed by airlines or companies operating large transport-category aircraft, who has joint ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aftermath

    by Robert Firth ...
    Tenerife, the worst accident in aviation history; like all pilots, Captain Van Zantenâs decision to go for the take-off was only one of the many thousands of decisions he had made in his career. Rain, snow or fog obscuring the view of the entire runway was not uncommon and something he had experienced many times.He was thinking about many things; the delays, his inconvenienced passengers, the ... Read more

    $8.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Final Few

    The Last Surviving Pilots of the Battle of Britain Tell Their Stories

    by Dilip Sarkar ...
    During the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone, defying the Luftwaffe’s aerial assault – the prelude to a proposed seaborne invasion. Fighter Command faced this challenge against overwhelming odds with immeasurable courage and tenacity, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, immortalising these young Spitfire and Hurricane pilots as ‘The Few’. Some 2,927 aircrew comprised the ‘Few’, 544 of whom ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Droner's Manual

    A Guide to the Responsible Operation of Small Unmanned Aircraft

    by Kevin Jenkins ...
    The progress made in the field of unmanned aircraft within the last decade have made it possible for almost anyone to build their own UAV in their garage. For many, this is an exciting business proposition in fields from video production to agriculture. However, for beginners and even more experienced hobbyists, it can be a daunting. In this infant industry, reliable and relevant information for ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Pilot's Accident Review

    An in-depth look at high-profile accidents that shaped aviation rules and procedures

    by John Lowery ...
    We often learn best by reviewing the mistakes of others. To this end, author John Lowery provides an in-depth analysis of prominent aviation accidents to illustrate the potential dangers during each phase of flight and the psychology behind pilot error. Lowery also demonstrates how a chain of errors—often originating from a pilot’s support team—can precipitate into fatal accidents. An ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (2024)

    FAA-H-8083-25C

    Series series ASA FAA Handbook Series
    Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc. has been the industry’s trusted source for official FAA publications for over 80 years. Look for the ASA wings to ensure you’re purchasing the latest authentic FAA release.This handbook FAA-H-8083-25C is current in 2024.Providing basic knowledge essential for all pilots, from beginning students through to the advanced certificates, this Federal Aviation ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aviation Weather Services Handbook

    This official handbook provides an authoritative tool for pilots, flight instructors, and those studying for pilot certification. From both the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Weather Service, this newest edition offers up-to-date information on the interpretation and application of advisories, coded weather reports, forecasts, observed and prognostic weather charts, and radar and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD