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sewerpiper
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DenverDude2002
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bobbysamd
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Book list
Fate Is The Hunter.
Both volumes of Flying The Line.
Hard Landing by Petzinger.
The Turbine Pilot's Flight Manual by Brown and Holt.
Airline Pilot Interviews: How You Can Succeed in Getting Hired by Irv Jasinski.
And a final, strong recommendation:
Every Employee's Guide to the Law by Lewin G. Joel, III.
Fate Is The Hunter.
Both volumes of Flying The Line.
Hard Landing by Petzinger.
The Turbine Pilot's Flight Manual by Brown and Holt.
Airline Pilot Interviews: How You Can Succeed in Getting Hired by Irv Jasinski.
And a final, strong recommendation:
Every Employee's Guide to the Law by Lewin G. Joel, III.
mckpickle
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Read Fate is the Hunter many times. After a thread on this board I went out through Amazon.com and purchased all of Gann's books. Flying Circus was just increadible. The Aviator only took me a day. I have them all and the only disapointment is that he will not write any more.
SOme of the books I bought were about 30 cents a peice. Used but in fair condition. S&H cost about 3-4 bucks though.
SOme of the books I bought were about 30 cents a peice. Used but in fair condition. S&H cost about 3-4 bucks though.
typhoonpilot
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I agree Bach and Gann are the two best American authors for aviation books. Bach does get a little weird at times, just read Illusions to know what I mean. My favorites are the collection of short stories in, A gift of Wings and Stranger to The Ground.
Have you guys ever read any of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's works ? His childrens book, " The Little Prince " is quite famous, but others like, " Wind, Sand, and Stars ", and " Night Flight " are okay.
Typhoonpilot
Have you guys ever read any of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's works ? His childrens book, " The Little Prince " is quite famous, but others like, " Wind, Sand, and Stars ", and " Night Flight " are okay.
Typhoonpilot
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One of my favorites is 'Skygods-The Fall of Pan Am' by Robert Gandt. I'm not sure how many times I've read it, but it's a great book. I guess it helps to have an interest in old airlines and aviation history to appreciate it.
The book is full of anecdotes and personal stories, all very entertaining. Juan Trippes' personal empire...crusty old flying boat captains with no clue about CRM and how Pan Am became the worlds most experienced crashers of B707s...the Berlin IGS operation and the weird crews based there...the merger with National and the Gill Award...Lockerbie...all the way to the last PA flight from Barbados to MIA.
One part that the pro-ALPA guys here can appreciate is the description of Capt MacQuarrie, who was flying PA103. He was the PA MEC chairman. "His negotiating style was to lock gazes with the guy across the table and tell him, just for openers, the he was going to break his balls. That got the negotiations started on the right note." Good stuff.
The book is full of anecdotes and personal stories, all very entertaining. Juan Trippes' personal empire...crusty old flying boat captains with no clue about CRM and how Pan Am became the worlds most experienced crashers of B707s...the Berlin IGS operation and the weird crews based there...the merger with National and the Gill Award...Lockerbie...all the way to the last PA flight from Barbados to MIA.
One part that the pro-ALPA guys here can appreciate is the description of Capt MacQuarrie, who was flying PA103. He was the PA MEC chairman. "His negotiating style was to lock gazes with the guy across the table and tell him, just for openers, the he was going to break his balls. That got the negotiations started on the right note." Good stuff.
Purple Haze
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Moondog's Academy of the Air and Other Disasters
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_1/104-7877100-4191902?v=glance&s=books
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_1/104-7877100-4191902?v=glance&s=books
FurloughedAgain
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I agree!
Moondogs Academy of the Air and Other Disasters.
AMEN!!! Best book out there. A MUST READ for any pilot who went straight from ABC Academy to the right seat of a regional jet.
Fantastic insight into what it REALLY means to pay ones dues!
I've read it a dozen times and can never get through it without laughing out loud!
Moondogs Academy of the Air and Other Disasters.
AMEN!!! Best book out there. A MUST READ for any pilot who went straight from ABC Academy to the right seat of a regional jet.
Fantastic insight into what it REALLY means to pay ones dues!
I've read it a dozen times and can never get through it without laughing out loud!
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Gann is great.
Bach is great, although his later work is a little out there for me...
Jimmy Buffet wrote a couple of entertaining books a few years ago. I read them but can't remember the titles. Lots of flying and Carribean stuff, pretty good.
Clancy does aviation pretty well, not to mention that he basically wrote the 9/11 attacks in 1997-8 in Executive orders...
Dale Brown does a good military book from my civ. perspective...
Keep 'em coming! I love to read good aviation books!
Bach is great, although his later work is a little out there for me...
Jimmy Buffet wrote a couple of entertaining books a few years ago. I read them but can't remember the titles. Lots of flying and Carribean stuff, pretty good.
Clancy does aviation pretty well, not to mention that he basically wrote the 9/11 attacks in 1997-8 in Executive orders...
Dale Brown does a good military book from my civ. perspective...
Keep 'em coming! I love to read good aviation books!
TransMach
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Gann is great! His description of the airport, BGBW is the identifier... I can't spell the name, was perfect. In the book it is called "Bluey West One" and hense the identifier. When I first arrived there it was like I'd been there before just from the book.
Clancy is another story, altogether. The fellow above who pointed out that he wrote the 9-11-01 attacks at the end of "Executive Orders" is right on. The real problem, I think, is that Clancy has "written" many future truths.
TransMach
Clancy is another story, altogether. The fellow above who pointed out that he wrote the 9-11-01 attacks at the end of "Executive Orders" is right on. The real problem, I think, is that Clancy has "written" many future truths.
TransMach
neil armstrong
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JBcrjca
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Re: "The Golden Years Of Flying" by Tex Searle
I agree that it's a good book with some funny stories...but you sure can tell that it was written by a pilot. There are many areas with poor spelling and grammar. Whoever edited the book must have been a pilot too, because he/she did a very poor job. Sometimes I'd have to read a sentence or paragraph again to try and understand what was meant. Some stories were told in the first person, others told 3rd person...sometimes I had no idea who did what. After a while I got tired of trying to figure out what Capt Searle was talking about.
Gann and Bach, on the other hand...always easy to read!
I agree that it's a good book with some funny stories...but you sure can tell that it was written by a pilot. There are many areas with poor spelling and grammar. Whoever edited the book must have been a pilot too, because he/she did a very poor job. Sometimes I'd have to read a sentence or paragraph again to try and understand what was meant. Some stories were told in the first person, others told 3rd person...sometimes I had no idea who did what. After a while I got tired of trying to figure out what Capt Searle was talking about.
Gann and Bach, on the other hand...always easy to read!
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