Emergency Maneuver Training : Controlling Your Airplane During a Crisis: Controlling Your Airplane During a Crisis

About this book

Award-winning flight instructor and aviation video host Rich Stowell has condensed eight years and 2 000 hours of experience teaching recoveries from spins and other unusual attitudes into a 240-page manual sprinkled with 128 illustrations. Touted as the "definitive work on an important subject " the book provides a common sense treatment of many subjects inadequately addressed during the course of normal flight training. Several topics critical to safety are covered in detail: basic aerodynamics turn dynamics stall/spin dynamics roll dynamics glide performance and off-airport landing scenarios. Stowell unravels such perennial aviation mysteries as the intricate relationship between pitch and power the significance of the V-g Diagram the real cause of spins the behavior of wingtip vortices and the human factors influencing aeronautical decision-making. In the process the reader learns simplified emergency strategies to cope with a host of in-flight maladies including: spins and spirals inverted attitudes wake turbulence control failures and engine failures. The timely information in this book is applicable to pilots at all levels of experience.