
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
- > A Pilot's Guide to Safety
- > Things My Flight Instructor Never Told Me
- > Aviation Safety The Human Factor
- > Survival Sense for Pilots & Passengers
- > Flying Wisdom The Proficient Pilot: Volume 3
- > The Right Seat
- > Tips to Fly By
- > Fatal Traps For Helicopter Pilots
- > Controlling Pilot Error: Controlled Flight into Terrain
- > Pilot's Guide to Safe Flying
Training
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Management
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