
Proficient Pilot
Set of 3
by Barry Schiff
The Proficient Pilot, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 by Barry Schiff is an interesting, enjoyable, and most importantly - educational array of information on flying and flying techniques by Barry Schiff, a pilot with over 25,000 hours experience and frequent contributor to AOPA Pilot magazine.
In a series of 5-6 page chapters, Schiff touches on everything from dead reckoning techniques to turbocharger operations, to flying the space shuttle. There are many hints & tips and how-to books available of improving pilot techniques. This is one of the better of them.
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".
![]() | ASA-PP-1 | The Proficient Pilot: Volume 1, Book, by ASA | $19.95 |
![]() | ASA-PP-2 | The Proficient Pilot: Volume 2, Book, by ASA | $19.95 |
![]() | ASA-PP-3 | Flying Wisdom The Proficient Pilot: Volume 3, Book, by ASA | $19.95 |
RELATED LINKS:
- ...from the 'flight safety' Category
- > CRM: Exploring the Human Element
- > The Proficient Pilot: Volume 2
- > Fatal Traps For Helicopter Pilots
- > Piloting with Confidence
- > A Pilot's Guide to Safe Flying
- > The Handbook for Aviation Survival Sense
- > Risk Management Handbook
- > Aviation Safety The Human Factor
- > Tips to Fly By
- > Flying Wisdom The Proficient Pilot: Volume 3
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
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