Aviation Book Recommendations

[machaf]

What books would you say are worth reading? Aviation books that is.

Ones I like are:

Turbine Pilots Flight Manual
Everything Explained for the Professfional Pilot - BEST REFERENCE BOOK EVER!

I was thinking about buying "Questions? Questions?" by Air INC for interview prep type stuff.

 

[Lostdog65]

"I Must Fly" by Johnny Moore.

Eric

 

[leardawg]

I always thought Stick And Rudder was the most significant aviation book I ever read. First published in the 1940s, but still every bit as relevant today.

 

[kingaira90]

Everything Explained

Everything Explained for the professional pilot, by Richie Lengel sold at www.aviation-press.com or from the link at the left of the screen. A ton of information, funny, easy to read, easy to find what you want. My sole source of technical study material for the last 2 jobs I was hired for. You won't regret the purchase.-kingaira90

 

[MED]

Handling the Big Jets is pretty good.

 

[BankAccount=0$]

I'll go with "Moondog's Academy of the Air; and other Aviation Disasters", by Pete Fusco. If after reading that you still want to work in commercial aviation good luck.

By the way, it is a hillarious (sp?) book written by a CAL 73 Capt. who got to the majors in a somewhat round about way.....

 

[ElecJet]

Try "Fate is the Hunter" by Ernie K Gann. All time classic but not an encyclopedia if thats what your looking for. A great read for anyone interested in the early days of commercial aviation.

 

[PilotB]

I second the Moondog's Academy of the Air. Pete is based at the field I'm on and he is hilarious. The only way to get the book seems to be Amazon or to have Barnes and Noble order it for you. It is freakin funny for anyone even if they are not in aviation.

 

[Cavpilot]

For a more historical view, I recommend these two awesome books.

"Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am Airlines" a history of Pan Am from both a pilots view and management view.
"Hard Landings" a history of the airline business.

Enjoy!

 

[leardawg]

Robert Bucks' North Star Over My Shoulder is an excellent book on the early days of airline flying.

 

[81Horse]

Night Flight -- by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Especially for freightdogs, current and former.

 

[BoilerUP]

---industry history---
Hard Landing
Flying the Line Vol. 2 - The Line Pilot in Crisis

---classic stories---
North Star Over My Shoulder
Fate is the Hunter

 

[1973Arrow]

Everything Explained for the professional pilot, by Richie Lengel sold at www.aviation-press.com or from the link at the left of the screen. A ton of information, funny, easy to read, easy to find what you want. My sole source of technical study material for the last 2 jobs I was hired for. You won't regret the purchase.-kingaira90

I'll second that one

 

[Metro752]

Stick and Rudder

 

[LJDRVR]

Books I wouldn't be caught dead without, in no particular order,

Stick and Rudder (Langwische)
*Jonathon Livingston Seagull (Bach)
*A Gift of Wings (Bach)
North Star Over My Shoulder (Buck)
*Flight Discipline (Kern)
*Redefining Airmanship (Kern)
Artful Flying (Charles) (www.artfulflying.com)
Flying the Midnight Sun (Muenchen)
Blind Trust (Nance)
Weather Flying (Buck)
Professional Pilot (Lowery)
The High and the Mighty (Gann)
Fate is the Hunter (Gann)
Going Downtown (Broughton)
Thud Ridge (Broughton)
Flight of Passage (Buck)
Flights of Passage (Haynes)
*Stanger to the Ground (Bach)
Proficient Pilot Vol I-III (Schiff)
Fly the Wing (Webb)

*Books that changed my life

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www.abebooks.com