Must Read Aviation Books

[Amish RakeFight]

"Unfriendly Skies" by Captain X

....actually, this was the first aviation related book I had ever read years ago. You won't find too much technical guidance here, just some stories from an anonymous captain for an unknamed airline and what his career was like.

Really sparked my desire to become a pilot. It does speak to an non-pilot perspective, but has some amusing tales tales of glamour and disgrace before and after deregulation.

 

[Uncle Bunkle]

Fundamentals of Chapters 7, 11, and 13 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code

 

[GogglesPisano]

"Basic Economics" by Sowell.

 

[millhouse21]

Moondog's Academy of the Air and other disasters by Pete Fussco

 

[Hovernut]

Manage your dang money and stay out of debt with the help of Dave Ramsey's books, "Financial Peace," and "The Total Money Makeover." Good advice given on his daily radio show, and nightly at 8 Eastern on the new "Fox Business Network."

http://www.daveramsey.com/shop/Dave_s_NY_Times_Bestsellers_P609C31.cfm

 

[brokedash]

"Unfriendly Skies" by Captain X

....actually, this was the first aviation related book I had ever read years ago. You won't find too much technical guidance here, just some stories from an anonymous captain for an unknamed airline and what his career was like.

Really sparked my desire to become a pilot. It does speak to an non-pilot perspective, but has some amusing tales tales of glamour and disgrace before and after deregulation.

After the almost twenty years that have passed since this book went to print, it remains an excellent source for a peak inside aviation right when enough time had passed for the first definetive review on dereg. X gives an excellent view of the airline industry at that time and much of what is discussed is still visable today. A book that is worth the read and $ to buy, you will not regret it.

For more lighter reading and a few laughs check out "Plane Insanity" by Elliot Hester. A profsional FA for a major airline dicusses his motavation for becoming an FA and the high jinx of pax, crew members, customs agents and planes alike.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Confessions of a Union Buster
Fly the Wing

 

[Turtlesfly]

Fate is the hunter

Stick and Rudder

 

[ex j-41]

Bush Pilot with a briefcase.

 

[skyaddict]

I'll add in Tony Kern's two books, 'Redefining Airmanship' and 'The Rogue Pilot'; Buck's 'The Pilot's Burden'; Barry Schiff's 3 (maybe it is now 4?) Proficient Pilot series compiling his many columns; and the Air Disaster series, Vols. 1-3, by MacArthur Job, the latter series very well written by a pilot and accident investigator.

And to those throwing in books like 'Finance for Dummies' and 'Selecting a career,' we may as well throw in (seriously) Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' and Charles Fishman's 'The Wal-mart Effect' because they both cover what is happening to the airline industry and the economy whether we like it or not.

 

[Mesabi Miner]

"Frank Lorenzo and the Destruction of Eastern Airlines." - a good read.

 

[Lazy8]

I enjoyed "Captain" and "Captain II" by Earl Rogers.

http://www.amazon.com/Captain-Earl-...bbs_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195513470&sr=8-11

http://www.amazon.com/Captain-II-Earl-E-Rogers/dp/0971909717/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b

Also, one of the best fiction books I've read in a while is "Airframe" by Michael Crichton

http://www.amazon.com/Airframe-Michael-Crichton/dp/0345402871

And if you're a starving FO that doesn't want to drop cash on books - remember there's such a thing as public libraries!

 

[Rip Vanwinkle]

St-Exupery and arguably Gann are literature. Read those. Otherwise, concentrate hard, sound out the words, and try to read books about something more interesting or important than airplanes.

 

[Limeyflyer]

Stick & Rudder by Wolfgang

Good book

 

[Snapperhead]

Moondog's Academy of the Air and other disasters by Pete Fussco

That's a good one too.