
The Proficient Pilot: Volume 1
by Barry Schiff
Outstanding for its clarity and readability, this book covers such diverse topics as slip tips, takeoff techniques, crosswind landings, scud running, flying the ILS, emergency tactics, and multi-engine flying.
Barry Schiff provides a wealth of valuable information based on his years of experience. Foreword by Ernest Gann.
"The best book about flying airplanes I have ever read."- Ernest K. Gann
Developing and maintaining proficiency at the controls is a key concern for pilots at all levels. In The Proficient Pilot, award-winning author and veteran airline captain and flight instructor Barry Schiff provides a wealth of valuable information based on his years of experience, concentrating on procedures and techniques not covered in other aviation books.
In his foreword to the book, Ernest K. Gann writes, "I recommend you heed Schiff's messages because they are written by a true aviator... Schiff is a true pro, and he covers the whole lofty field of airmanship with the skill and the dignity it deserves."
Illustrated throughout with helpful charts and line drawings, The Proficient Pilot should be required reading for all who fly.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Foreword
- Dynamics of Flight
- the miracle of lift
- all about stalls
- stalls and spins
- turning and maneuvering
- that shifting center of gravity
- flying behind power curve
- Proficiency and Technique
- climbing flight
- slipping to a landing
- crosswind landings
- operating from uphill and downhill runways
- operating on contaminated runways
- soaring techniques in an airplane
- scud running
- flying a taildragger
- Flightworthy Considerations
- responsibilities of pilot in command
- wind shear
- high density altitudes
- hazordous in-flight illusions
- interpreting engine instruments
- Getting There
- dead reckoning
- wind and its effect on aircraft
- pressure pattern navigation
- The World of Instrument Flight
- low visibility takeoff
- the ILS approach
- low visibility transition to landing
- executing nonprecision approaches
- hazards of circling approaches
- busting approach minimums
- holding patterns simplified
- strange and amusing instrument approaches from around the world
- Emergency Tactics
- flight control failure
- coping with pitot-static difficulties
- engine failure after takeoff
- engine failure at night or in IFR
- precautionary landings
- Multi-Engine Flying
- engine-out approaches
- engine-out driftdown
- minimum-controllable airspeed and advice
- Index
From the Back Cover:
Proficient Pilot contains a wealth of information published nowhere else: how to survive a crash landing, how to start a hot engine, how to use ground effect to an advantage, how to cope with an engine fire, how to ditch, and much more. Schiff disposes of popular misconceptions about flying in turbulence, coping with wind shear, and obtaining meaningful performance data. He shares his tricks of the trade for handling a variety of situations and emergencies. In the words of Ernest K Gann, "I recommend you heed Schiff's messages because they are written by a true aviator. He knows it. He has done it. And he is doing it".RELATED LINKS:
- ...from the 'flight safety' Category
- > Piloting with Confidence
- > Proficient Pilot Set of 3
- > Controlling Pilot Error: Communications
- > Rod Machado's Plane Talk
- > Controlling Pilot Error: Controlled Flight into Terrain
- > Aircraft Safety
- > A Pilot's Guide to Safety
- > Things My Flight Instructor Never Told Me
- > The Handbook for Aviation Survival Sense
- > The Right Seat
Training
- Pilot Ratings
- sport
- private
- instrument
- commercial
- flight instructor
- multi-engine
- helicopter
- ATP
- JAA PPL (private)
- JAA ATPL (commercial)
- Flying Skills
- regulatory - flight
- basics
- VFR skills
- IFR & navigation
- advanced skills
- communications
- sport flying
- aircraft operation
- GPS manuals
- flight safety
- Pilot Supplies
- logbooks
- planning / plotters / E6Bs
- cockpit organization
- hoods / fuel testers
- flightbags & cases
Management



