Stick and Rudder Classics
McGraw-Hill Inc.,US (Publisher)
Published on 1. October 1999
Book
Hardback
918 pages
978-0-07-135784-5 (ISBN)
Description
A box set of three aviation classics: "Weather Flying", a guide to flying in all kinds of weather, by Robert N. Buck; Richard L. Taylor's "Instrument Flying", a guide for pilots in the instrument system; and "Stick and Rudder", an explanation of the art of flying, by Wolfgang Langewiesche.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
200 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 165 mm
Weight
2200 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-135784-5 (9780071357845)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Stick and rudder: wings; some air sense; the controls; the basic manoeuvres; getting down; the dangers of the air; more air sense. Weather flying 4/e: weather flying; a little theory for weather flying; some thoughts on checking weather; how to check weather; weather information; checking weather details; checking weather for the route; equipment needs for weather flying; temperature, an important part of weather flying; some psychology of weather flying; turbulence and flying it; VTR, flying weather visually; about keeping proficient flying instruments; thunderstorms and flying them; ice and flying it; taking off in bad weather; teaching yourself to fly weather; something on judgement. Instruments flying 4/e: the complete instrument pilot; the language of instrument flying; attitude instrument flying; partial panel IFR; IFR flight plans; pre-flight planning; IFR clearances; communicating in the IFR system; VOR navigation; area navigation; en-route procedures; communications failure; holding patterns; getting ready for an instrument approach; instruments approaches; the NDB (ADF) approach; the VOR approach; the instrument landing system approach; high altitude IFR; handling IFR emergencies; proficiency exercises.