Mastering Instrument Flying - Softcover

Sollman, Henry; Harris, Sherwood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0830604332 ISBN 13: 9780830604333

Publisher: TAB Books Inc, 1989

Synopsis

Every aviator can learn the FAA's practical instrument test standards and earn the IFR with this complete course in instrument flight, written by two experienced instructors with more than 80 years of flying between them.

About this title

From the Author

Mastering Instrument Flying - For Instructors and Students
Author Comments - Mastering Instrument Flying, Third Edition By Henry Sollman with Sherwood Harris

My co-author and I are justifiably proud of this, our third, fully updated edition of Mastering Instrument Flying, published recently by McGraw-Hill. We would like to share with you some background about how this book came to be written.

I started to learn to fly in 1936 and was immediately bitten by the "bug" and driven to become a pilot. It was a slow process since I had to pay for my own flying lessons and "earn as I learned." My main source of funds was working "side jobs" during high school at Depression wages. I earned my old CAA Private Pilot's Certificate, #115126, in 1943 and I was on my way toward many exciting years of learning, practicing, studying and then teaching.

Over the years I accumulated a vast resource of teaching materials and techniques. Many of them evolved into practical innovations that enabled students to learn faster and cheaper while becoming outstanding pilots. I owe a great debt to all my instructors and students, as well as friends in the old CAA, now the FAA. I found instrument flying to be most fascinating of all fields of flying. It was the magnet that seemed to draw me to the goal of becoming an Instrument Flight Instructor and Ground Instructor.

In the course of logging 17,000 hours of flight time and over 15,000 hours as a Flight Instructor and FAA Flight Test Examiner, I also served as a lecturer at many FAA Safety Seminars and earned the Flight Instructor of the Year Award for the FAA's Eastern Region in 1984. I was well equipped to be the author of Mastering Instrument Flying. The first edition was published by in 1989 and enthusiastically received by the aviation community. The second edition was published in 1994.

From 1978 through 1988 I was Chief Flight Instructor for several flight schools. I met a professional editor and author who worked with me as a part time flight instructor, Sherwood Harris. Sherwood had written several books and articles on aviation history and was a book editor for the Reader's Digest. He was a great supporter and fan who kept urging me to write a book about our mutually favorite subject, teaching instrument flying, and he kept reminding me that I had a vast storehouse of training techniques and knowledge that he felt should be preserved and shared with the aviation community. He offered to assist and guide me through the process and I gratefully accepted.

Sherwood kept reminding me that all the techniques and tools that I had pioneered and developed would be lost forever when I faded into the sunset-unless they were captured in book form first. Here is that book!

From the Back Cover

Discover today's IFR skills and electronics. This third edition brings you up to speed with the electronics revolution and its impact on instrument flight training and information. Written for pilots and their instructors by renowned pilots and instructors, this ideal instructional manual for earning the IFR gives you: a building-block, 20-lesson plan approach to the IFR--proven successful by students, pilots, and instructors; comprehensive coverage of all aspects of instrument flying, from approaches and departures to effective communication with air traffic control; in-depth instruction on the newest GPS systems; a valuable guide to Internet sites and PC resources; indispensable evaluations of computerized flight simulators. Perfect for pilots seeking IFRs, flight instructors developing lesson plans, and IFR pilots wanting to refresh their skills, Mastering Instrument Flight, Third Edition looks at the entire IFR learning spectrum, from psychology to test day and beyond. It all ads up to a must-have IFR kit that no other resource can match.

Edition details

• Publisher: TAB Books Inc
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0830604332
• ISBN 13: 9780830604333
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256