Flight Lessons 1: Basic Flight: How Eddie Learned the Meaning of it All

Flight Lessons is a collection of hundreds of professional pilot procedures and techniques. Volume One Basic Flight includes the first 30 such lessons as they were learned by Eddie the authors alter ego in story form. Each chapter concludes with the lesson on graph paper updated for the aviation world of today. Lessons include: Aerodynamic force air properties angle of attack the Big Sky Theory climb performance the control and performance technique course intercepts critical mach crosswinds CR-3 and CPU-26 computers fix-to-fix navigation ground effect holding (FAA) ILS jet engine 101 mechanics navigation physics plotting radar the region of reversed command stability thrust and drag thrust measurement turn performance unusual attitude recovery V-1 (decision speed) water injection and wind shear.