Transition to Twins: Your First Multi-Engine Rating (ASA Training Manuals)

Robson, David

ISBN 10: 156027414X / ISBN 13: 9781560274148

Published by Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc., 2001

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Title: Transition to Twins: Your First Multi-Engine...

Publisher: Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc.

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: paperback

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

This training manual gives both newer and professional pilots a solid foundation in transitioning from a single-engine airplane to the more powerful but trickier multiengine craft. This step-by-step learning process, combined with a flight instructor’s guidance and the included multiengine course outline, will lead to a deeper understanding of what was previously unrecorded flying wisdom. The normal and unusual operations of a multiengine craft are explained, including performance details and instrument flying regulations operations. At every stage, the text is presented as a real flight lesson, making this a perfect companion to the student pilot’s training with an instructor.

About the Authors:

David Robson is a career aviator having been nurtured on balsa wood, dope (the legal kind) and tissue paper. He made his first solo flight shortly after his seventeenth birthday, having made his first parachute jump just after his sixteenth. His first job was as a junior draftsman (they weren't persons in those days) at the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation in Melbourne, Australia. At that time he was also learning to fly de Havilland Chipmunks with the Royal Victorial Aero Club.

He joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1965 and served for twenty-one years as a fighter pilot and test pilot. He flew over 1,000 hours on Mirages and 500 on Sabres (F-86). He completed the Empire Test Pilots’ course in England in 1972, flying everything from gliders to Lightning fighters and Argosy transport aircraft. He completed a tour in Vietnam as a forward air controller flying the USAF O-2A (Oscar Deuce). In 1972 he was a member of the Mirage formation aerobatic team, the Deltas, which celebrated the RAAF’s 50th anniversary.

After retiring from the Air Force he became a civilian instructor and lecturer and spent over ten years with the Australian Aviation College, a specialized international school for airline cadet pilots. During 1986-88 he was the editor of the national safety magazine, the Aviation Safety Digest, which won the Flight Safety Foundation's international award. He was recently awarded the Australian Safety Foundation’s Certificate for Air Safety.

David holds an ATP license and instructor’s rating. His particular ambition is to see the standard of flight and ground instruction improved and for aviation instruction to be recognized as a career and be adequately rewarded.

David Robson served for 21 years as a fighter pilot and test pilot with the Royal Australian Air Force. He has been a flight instructor, lecturer, and editor of the Aviation Safety Digest.