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'Absolute Altitude - A Hitch Hikers Guide to the Sky'
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'Absolute Altitude' captures the high romance of aviation.
After hitch hiking by aeroplane around the world this is the often hilarious travel book recounting intimate insights into the thrills and peril's of the pilot's seat - from a UN Cessna flying aid into a war zone, to aerobatics in a jet fighter, from chasing mountain goats by helicopter to the edge of the stratosphere in a Learjet...
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£7.99
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'Slipping the Surly Bonds - Great Quotations on Flight'
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'Slipping the Surly Bonds - Great Quotations on Flight' is the coffee-table, Christmas and birthday gift aviation fans have been looking for...better buy a few copies of this book; one to keep...the other to give away..."
Here is a great and inexpesive present to adorn the bookshelf of any aviation enthusiast who will be sure to go back to it for a re-read time and time again!
It is a unique collection of the most compelling words ever spoken about flying and spotlights one of humankind's greatest, most enduring and most spectacular accomplishments - the gravity defying conquest of the skies.
Gathered together here for the first time, these quotations convey the drama, achievement and pure thrill of flying.
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£10.99
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A Pilot's Guide to Safe Flying
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This book is an ideal practical reference for the GA pilot and summarizes the many of ways of avoiding situations that can potentially impair the safety of a flight.
Easy to read and focusing on the facts a pilot really needs it will help all the way to safer flying.
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£22.95
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Confident Flying - A Pilot Upgrade
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This unique book explores common misconceptions regarding risks and show what the actual risks are and why.
By sharing personal experiences, reviewing statistics and accident reports and playing 'what-if?' - this book shows you how to achieve increased utility and a higher level of safety in your flight.
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£17.95
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Flying with Condors by J. Leden (Hard Back Edition)
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Judy Leden is, without question, the greatest woman pilot in free flying. She has been 3 times champion of the world, twice in hang gliding, once in paragliding and six times British Women's Champion.
This beautifully written autobiography takes you from her college days when she learned to fly hang gliders right up to the present day. In this inspirational book she takes you to rare and secret aerial places you could not reach alone and evokes a world still full of adventure.
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£18.99
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Handling the Big Jets
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This is the famous classic & authoratitive text offering an explanation of the significant differences in flying qualities between jet and piston engine transport aeroplanes.
Written by a former chief test pilot of the United Kingdom Airworthiness Authority it is an invaluable work of reference for all commercial and airline pilot students, pilots, engineers and enthusiasts - it can truly be described as "the best of it's kind in the world".
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£25.50
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How Airliners Fly - a Passengers Guide
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If you are one of the millions of airline passengers who take to the air daily but have no idea how an aeroplane flies or how it is flown - but would like to find out - then this is the book for you.
Written by an airline pilot who knows from first-hand experience those questions that are asked most frequently this is a handbook to take in your 'carry-on' bag to enlighten you fully.
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£9.99
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How to Get a Place on an Airline Pilot Training Scheme
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Here is a book that could change your life or that of a family member or friend!
It is the latest edition of a unique publication that provides an excellent and unique guide to getting a placement on an airline pilot training scheme and gives the information needed on airline pilot training criteria from major UK and foreign airline employers. So, if you are currently at school or university, or maybe thinking about a career change, you'll find this book an invaluable aid to obtaining your place on an airline pilot training scheme and getting on the career path of your choice with less financial investment!
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£12.99
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Lessons From the Logbook
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Here's a fascinating and enthralling book with flying technique advice from the best teacher of all - experience!
'Lessons From the Logbook' will inspire readers to improve their flying skills and more importantly, motivate them to take to the sky.
It's a great book for anyone who flies or desires to fly.
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£12.95
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Mayday
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This fascinating book features 17 amazing situations where aircrew have been able to nurse their crippled aircraft back to earth saving many lives in the process.
It will greatly appeal to a wide spectrum of people interested in both aviation safety and what happens when fate intervenes in an otherwise normal flight. Makes great reading for all pilots, crew and enthusiasts!
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£14.95
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Meteorology DeMystified
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Here is a book that really does unravel the 'mystery of meteorology' in a simple and effective way.
Get answers to - 'why we bake or freeze'? - 'drown or dry up'? - 'stay put or blow away'?
It is an easy to read and understand self-teaching guide that enables the reader to master the concepts of meteorology and the techniques of weather prediction so necessary for all aviators.
'Meteorology Demystified' presents a complete easy explanation of essential physical and scientific concepts and will help you to discover how the atmosphere generates weather, how storms form and evolve, how the earth's climate is changing and show you how to compose your own weather forecast.
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£12.99
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The Killing Zone by Paul A. Craig
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...You can fly through the zone or you can die in it.
This international best seller is a the only source to pinpoint the peril-filled zone - ominous low-flight-time, in which pilots are most likely to die. It also shows you precisely how to sidestep the grim causes of needless pilot death that lurk in the zone. Based on strategic, in-depth studies of behaviour and safety among general aviation pilots, this book spotlights scientific discoveries about the ways pilots go wrong time after time in order to help you make better decisions in life-critical flying situations. Hard. 323 pages.
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