How to Do It!
The Pilot's Handbook is an illustrated how-to guide of procedures, operations,
communications and reference for all general-aviation pilots and instrument
students.
Subtitled The Flight Bag Book, this convenient, cockpit-handy manual
features in-depth and specific procedural descriptions intended for reading
on the ground, and checklists on heavy tabbed section dividers for use in
the air. Hundreds of full-color illustrations illuminate the explanations,
and a lie-flat spiral binding allows for folding over or full opening.
- Complete illustrated explanations for reading on the ground.
- Checklists for use in the air.
- Reference, glossary and detailed index.
- Small enough to put in your flight bag or leave in the aircraft.
- Tabbed pages for easy location of sections.
- Spiral binding allows for full opening.
- 338 pages, 288 illustrations.
All for less than the price of an hour of ground instruction.
Meet the Author
Scott Todd wrote "The Pilot's Handbook" during his years as a flight instructor. A
former high-school English teacher, newspaper reporter, teacher of English
as a foreign language, Peace Corps volunteer, and radio DJ, he is currently
a captain and instructor for a large fractional operator. He lives with his
wife and son in the Boston area, where he plays competitive ultimate Frisbee
against people many years his junior.
He writes:
"I conceived of this book not long after I got my own instrument rating.
I rented a plane for two weeks to take a long father-son trip, and being
a fairly new pilot, I wanted a guide to take along. The Jeppesen
Commercial/Instrument Manual, while a good text, was so large and heavy
that I needed to redo the weight and balance calculations whenever I
threw it in the back of the plane. So I started photocopying the
specific pages I really needed. At some point I thought, 'This is silly;
there must be an actual book like this -- an illustrated guide to
procedures that's small enough to put in a flight bag.' I started
looking, and discovered that actually, no, there was no such thing. When
I became a flight instructor, I started writing that very book."
Eight years later, here it is.
