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Product Description
An invaluable resource for instrument flight instructors, pilots, and students. The Federal Aviation Administration's Instrument Flying Handbook provides pilots, student pilots, aviation instructors, and controllers with the knowledge and skills required to operate in instrument meteorological conditions.
Illustrated with full-color graphics and photographs, topics covered include basic atmospheric science, the air traffic control system, spatial disorientation and optical illusions, flight support systems, and emergency responses. The book's two appendixes contain information on clearance shorthand and an instrument training lesson guide. Readers will also find a handy glossary and index. Since many questions on FAA exams are taken directly from the information presented in this text, the Instrument Flying Handbook is a great study guide for potential pilots looking for certification, and a perfect gift for any aircraft or aeronautical buff.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #33801 in Books
- Published on: 2008-04-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 392 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
The Federal Aviation Administration strives to "provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world." It also authors The Airplane Flying Handbook and The Pilot's Encyclopedia of Aeronautical Knowledge.
Customer Reviews
FAA's Insturment Flying handbook is great
The FAA's Instrument Flying Handbook - 2008 Edition. As an instructor, I believe that this edition is a "must have" for any pilot.
The book is well organized around reviewing the basics and then adding new information; it has great graphics and photos, promoting greater understanding of all major concepts of flight under VFR and IFR in very simple ways; and it explains FAA operations so clearly that pilots who have read this book will know what controllers expect from them.
The graphics include lots of examples of both steam gauges and glass cockpits. With only one exception, I found all the material up-to-date, pertinent to everyone's flying, and the book contained information I had not yet learned through numerous other sources. Further, all the information contained within it was accurate.
In short, this is an awesome book. The FAA staff should be proud of this terrific publication. More importantly, pilots will find this an incredibly useful book. No doubt I will reread it throughout my flying and will reference it in my classes.
Stephen J. Temmermand - land & seaplane pilot; instructor
Best Refresher for Instrument Oral
This is the best book I know of help you begin to understand instrument flying. That said, transitioning to instruments is a big challenge, and I do not know of any single book that will explain instrument flying in an easy to grasp and efficient manner. This is as good as I found, and it is inexpensive. I bought the Jep book too, and I never got through it. It just wastes a lot of paper on stuff you already know (I hope).
The distinction between this book and the Instrument Procedures Handbook is that this book is more for students learning to fly instruments. The Instrument Procedures Handboook is a more detailed look into the instrument flying system. When you begin to actually fly in the system and you want to understand why you get bizarre clearances or why STARS or SIDS are the way they are, this is a book to help you understand why. It helps you file flight plans that are likely to be cleared as filed and less likely to be amended in flight. This in turn reduces your stress.
Everything in the book is from the FAA Instrument Flying Handbook which was published as printed in this book in 2007. The content is great. All the FAA publications are and none are copyrighted as our tax dollars paid for them. But Sky Horse does not have a right to claim this publication is more recent that what the FAA or others publish.
