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Be the pilot who comes home after every flight.
Learn from the experiences of other pilots so you don't become another air incident statistic.
The Lessons From The Sky series contains easy-to-read, true stories from actual pilots, including what they learnt from their accidents and near misses. Stories from around the globe, from the aviation community on their own near misses and their learnings.
All stories have been selected and republished with permission from NASA, CASA and CHIRP, and include first hand pilot reports about aviation accidents from the USA, Australia and the United Kingdom.
Lessons learnt from taxiway incidents, refuelling errors, airspace infringements, cloud base confusion, reliance on GPS systems, storm fronts, military airspace incursions, and many, many more.
Each story is short and easy-to-read, written in the voice of the pilot who lived to report back. You'll recognise the names of the aircraft, and you may have even landed at some of the airfields mentioned in
Lessons From The Sky
51 Lessons From The Sky
Learn from the largest air force in the world - the US Air Force. 51 Lessons From The Sky contains stories from USAF pilots and crew who lived to share their stories of air incidents, and close calls.
If you enjoyed Mayday, Air Crash Investigation or Seconds Before Disaster, then you will love this companion book to the best selling General Aviation book 81 Lessons From The Sky and the Commercial and Air Transport Aviation book 101 Lessons From The Sky.
51 Lessons From The Sky is possible thanks to the USAF pilots who served and shared their failings and misadventures.
All fifty-one stories are introduced by former USAF Test Pilot, Shuttle Pilot and Shuttle Commander Colonel Tom Henricks.
Real life unclassified stories straight from the pilots who lived to tell the tale. 51 stories about unique military aircraft, including the F-16 Viper, C, CJ, U-28A, T-1A Jayhawk, C-21 Super Taxi, C-17 Transport, C-130E Hercules, AC-130, HC-130, MC-130H, EC-130H, B-52, KC-135, KC-10, A-10 Thunderbolt, F-15 Eagle, E-3 Sentry, B-1B Bomber, CF-5, CV-22B Osprey and a T-6 II doing aerobatics, and includes a number of declassified stories.
It includes the Special Operations Squadron, 77th Fighter Squadron, 36th Maintenance Squadron, 58th Operations Support Squadron, 962nd Airborne Air Control Squadron, 80th Flying Training Wing, 25th Fighter Squadron, 18 OSS/OSOST, 47th Flying Training Wing, 40th and 39th Airlift Squadron, 43rd Airlift Wing, 32nd Air Refueling Squadron. With all crew surviving to tell their tale.
Read about complacency, maintenance issues, poor planning, limitations and fatigue, and dozens more easy-to-read true accounts of potentially catastrophic incidents narrowly averted. And the lessons the pilots, the crew, the ground crew, the engineers, and the co-pilots learnt.
Learn from the experiences of others so you don't make the same mistakes.
An essential read for all current and future crew, aviators and air force personnel. Remember, safety first.
81 Lessons From The Sky
Do you want to be the pilot who comes home after every flight?
Learn from the experiences of other pilots so you don't become another air incident statistic.
81 Lessons From The Sky contains eighty-one easy-to-read, true stories from actual pilots, including what they learnt from their accidents and near misses. Eighty-one stories from around the globe, from the General Aviation community on their own near misses and their learnings.
All eighty-one stories have been selected and republished with permission from NASA, CASA and CHIRP, and include first hand pilot reports about aviation accidents from the USA, Australia and the United Kingdom.
Eighty-one lessons learnt from taxiway incidents, refuelling errors, airspace infringements, cloud base confusion, reliance on GPS systems, storm fronts, military airspace incursions, and many, many more.
Each story is short and easy-to-read, written in the voice of the pilot who lived to report back. You'll recognise the names of the aircraft, and you may have even landed at some of the airfields mentioned in these pages. Aircraft like the Conquest, the Pawnee, the Cessna 150, the 172, a Piper 6XT, even a Bird Dog, and others.
This book is an essential read for all current and future pilots. And remember, safety first.
101 Lessons From The Sky
The companion book to the best selling General Aviation book 81 Lessons From The Sky.
101 Lessons From The Sky focusses on commercial and air transport aviation, and is possible thanks to the pilots who shared their failings and misadventures. Read 101 true stories from pilots with hundreds and thousands of hours of flight experience between them.
The flight simulator has nothing on learning from actual stories straight from the pilots who lived to tell the tale. 101 stories about the Boeing 737, and the 767, the CRJ-700, the Beech 99, the ERJ-145, the A320, a Learjet and a Gulfstream, the CRJ-200, the Airbus 319, and others.
Read about airline checklists, complacency, maintenance issues, poor load planning, limitations with dipsticks and fatigue, and dozens more easy-to-read true accounts of potentially catastrophic incidents narrowly averted. And the lessons the pilots, the cabin crew, the ground crew, the engineers, and the co-pilots learnt. And the airline companies and air cargo companies...
Learn from the experiences of other pilots so you don't become another air incident statistic.
An essential read for all current and future pilots. And remember, safety first.