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Glider Flying Handbook

Glider Flying Handbook
From Skyhorse Publishing

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For certified glider pilots and students preparing for certification in the glider category, this book—prepared by the Federal Aviation Administration—is a resource without equal. Covering components and systems, flight instruments, performance limitations, preflight and ground operations, launch and recovery procedures, flight maneuvers, traffic patterns, soaring weather, radio navigation, and much more, it lays out in authoritative detail the science, mechanics, and regulations that every pilot needs to know. Plus, it contains a glossary of essential terms and crystal-clear color illustrations. No one should learn to fly, or fly a glider, without this information close at hand.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #131293 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-07-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 240 pages

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About the Author
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), established in 1958, strives to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world. It authors the Aviation Instructor's Handbook, Airplane Flying Handbook, the Federal Aviation Regulations/Aeronautical Information Manual (FAR/AIM) and the Pilot s Encyclopedia of Aeronautical Knowledge.

Customer Reviews

Pretty, but written by bureaucrats3
The book hits the right topics and has lots of illustrations, but the writing is soulless. This makes some of the explanations hard to understand. The section on basic flight physics, for instance, is incomprehensible. On the other hand, the sections on variometers and total energy systems are quite clear. It's as though the book were a slightly expanded checklist written by several different aparatchiks all of whom lean heavily on government-speak. This is a good study guide for the written exam, but I wouldn't take it in isolation. It needs accompanying books (by Piggot, Stewart, or Langewiesche etc.) to make it complete.

Glider Flying Handbook5
This is an excellent reference book for glider flying. It thoroughly covers all aspects of information required for the student as well as the advanced glider pilots. The graphics are excellent and go a long way in helping to understand the material. Minor editing errors throughout are anoying. The FAA has published an errata sheet that fixes some but not all of the errors found. That errata sheet was not included with the text. At $16.95 this is a great price but at $28.00 it is too much

Good, but Insufficient4
Like most of the FAA pubs (this is a Skyhorse reprint), this one is good but it's not complete. There is much more information in glider books from Derek Piggot. And "Stick and Rudder" by Wolfgang Langewiesche is timeless, even if it was written 70 years ago.

The Skyhorse reprint is first-quality, however: coated stock, excellent photos and illustrations. The previous ASA version was almost twice the price for the same book.