Recommended Books For New Students?

[User546]

I am about to start teaching my first student pilot, and I was curious what books everyone would recommend for him to get. I'm looking specifically for the essential books, not the little "extras."

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[FL000]

Squawk 7700-APilot's Adventure by Peter M. Buffington and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Surviving Bankruptcy by Carol Costa.

Seriously though, the Flight Training Handbook from the FAA is a must. It has all the language and lessons that the DPE wants to hear on the checkride. The publication number is AC 61-21A.

Actually, I just found it online at http://www.faatest.com/books/FLT/

 

[pilotman2105]

The Private Pilot Manual by Jepp is pretty good. Has good illustrations and is very comprehensive. It's expensive though.

The FAA book that FL000 mentioned is also a good one.

 

[lowlycfi]

I agree with FL000. The FAA's FLIGHT TRAINING HANDBOOK and I'll add the FAA's PILOTS HANDBOOK OF AERONAUTICAL KNOWLEDGE, and GLEIM'S PRIVATE PILOT KNOWLEDGE TEST PREP get ready for the written. Also, I usually insist that my student have a copy of the PTS, which you can download from the FAA website for free. And of course, a current FAR/AIM (I like ASA's version). Good luck.

 

[garf12]

I would recommend rod machado's private pilot hand book, i like it alot better then the Jepp one. The jepp one is just to cut and dry, like a basic text book.

 

[JB74]

Some of these have been said already:

Jepp Private Pilot Manual
FAA's Airplane Flying Handbook
FAA's Aviation Weather Services (good reference, but not required)
FAA's Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge
Gleim's Private Written Prep
ASA's Oral Prep
ASA's PTS
ASA's FAR/AIM

 

[bobbysamd]

FAA pubs

Think it through as a flight instructor. Which books do the PTS draw upon for its references? The answer lies therein. Those are the books your student should use.

Remember, always, that while Kershner and Peter Dogan, etc. write great manuals the FAA publications are always the last word on what to know, how to do it, and how to teach it. As long as you do it the FAA way, even if you don't think it should be done that way, your student doesn't think it should be done that way, or the examiner doesn't think it should be done that way, the examiner still must pass your student.

Hope that helps some more. Good luck with your student.

 

[minus273]

From the Ground Up (US edition)


Is the manual of choice in Canada. There is a US edition will take then all the way through.

The FAA weather books: White and Blue ones.

-273

 

[pilotman2105]

FAA Books = Good Bedtime Reading

Think it through as a flight instructor. Which books do the PTS draw upon for its references? The answer lies therein. Those are the books your student should use.

Remember, always, that while Kershner and Peter Dogan, etc. write great manuals the FAA publications are always the last word on what to know, how to do it, and how to teach it. As long as you do it the FAA way, even if you don't think it should be done that way, your student doesn't think it should be done that way, or the examiner doesn't think it should be done that way, the examiner still must pass your student.

Hope that helps some more. Good luck with your student.

I agree with this as well. The PTS references the FAA publications. So to keep your nose 100% clean, get those.

In a different light, some of the FAA books can be so boring, your student won't stay awake while reading them. I got the Instrument Training Handbook for my CFII, tried reading it at least a dozen times, and each time I ended up catching up on some sleep.

At least the Jepp book has some decent illustrations and graphics to present the information in a couple of different ways.

 

[flyer172r]

Definitely the Airplane Flying Handbook and the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge. Those are the official sources for what student pilots need to know. The Jepp book is definitely an easier read though.

 

[hydroflyer]

FAR's Explained is also a good one, allows a student to get a plain English version of the regs as well as how they have been enforced in the past.