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AVOIDING COMMON ERRORS: AN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS VIEW

This important book brings an air traffic controller perspective to the mistakes pilots commonly make in controlled airspace. Veteran controller John Stewart has spent years observing pilots display their lack of education, lack of flight preparation, inability to communicate effectively, ignorance of or resistance to regulations, and other dangerous flaws.

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13-04113AVOIDING COMMON PILOT ERRORS$17.50

A PILOT'S GUIDE TO SAFE FLYING

This unique book is designed to help pilots avoid the pitfalls that have trapped many unwary pilots over the years. There is nothing else like it on the market today. This manual has receive praise from reviewers around the world including the AOPA Air Safety Association, the National Association of Flight Instructors, and the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association.

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13-04063A PILOTS GUIDE TO SAFE FLYING$32.95

AIRCRAFT SAFETY: ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS, ANALYSIS, & APPLICATIONS

Close examinations of more than 40 airline and general aviation accidents provide life-saving lessons for pilots and other professionals concerned with aircraft safety.

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13-29941AIRCRAFT SAFETY 2ND EDITION$32.95

HANDLING IN-FLIGHT EMERGENCIES

Train and prepare for the unexpected with this thorough guide that builds your confidence and teaches you valuable techniques and procedures for coping with emergencies. By Jerry Eichenberger. 201 pages, 25 illust., paperback.

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13-70000HANDLING IN-FLIGHT EMERGENCIES$32.95

I LEARNED ABOUT FLYING FROM THAT

The Major Bluchers Bookshelf column in Colorado CAP Flyer, said of this book,

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3259I LEARND ABOUT FLYN FROM THAT$13.95

THE WALLACE GUIDEBOOK

For Emergency Care & Survival - When you're faced with a disaster, you can often face physical and psychological strain. It's often hard to remember what to do in an emergency situation, and this is exactly why we've written the Wallace Guidebook. This book is specifically designed to present the basics of survival in an extremely easy-to-understand manner.

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13-03597WALLACE GUIDEBOOK FOR EMERGENC$4.65

ASA RISK MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK

This handbook is a tool designed to help recognize and manage risk. It provides a higher level of training to the pilot in command (PIC) who wishes to aspire to a greater understanding of the aviation environment and become a better pilot. This handbook is for pilots of all aircraft from Weight-Shift Control (WSC) to a Piper Cub, a Twin Beechcraft, or a Boeing 747.

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13-06667ASA 8083-2 RISK MANAGEMENT H/B$12.75

WORKING HEALTHY AND WORKING HEALTHY SOLVENTS BOOK BUNDLE

Working Healthy is a manual on health and safety techniques written by an aviation medical examiner specifically for the aviation technician. Learn how to protect yourself from the many risks and long term health issues common in an aviation facility.

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13-06886WORKING HEALTHY BOOK BUNDLE$35.00
13-05938E-BOOK WORKING HEALTHY BUNDLE$35.00

ASA PILOT MEDICAL HANDBOOK

Indispensable for pilots and other aviation workers, this comprehensive guide contains the authoritative word on pilot health and flight safety. Being a safe pilot involves more than checking the weather, filing a flight plan, and performing a preflight inspection. It also requires that pilots assess their physical and mental health and evaluate a slew of situational factors.

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13-06669ASA PILOT MEDICAL HANDBOOK$16.95

SAVE LIVES - AIRCRAFT CERTIFICATION AND MODIFICATION BY MARTIN HOLLMANN

The beginning tells in flight aircraft wings coming off. Hollmann could have easily helped all of these aircraft if the pilots had listened. With these stories in mind we look at how the FAA certifies aircraft and aircraft modifications. Hollmann, a FAA DER, goes through the step by step processes with examples for increasing gross weight of a Cessna 337 by performing landing gear drop tests.

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13-07062SAVES LIVES A/C CERT & MODIFC$59.00

US AIR FORCE
SURVIVAL HANDBOOK

The U.S. Air Force Survival Handbook is the bible for pilots who want to stay alive—no matter what

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13-08790USAF SURVIVAL HANDBOOK$12.71 Add to cart for current price

OXFORD AVIATION JAA PPL HUMAN PERFORMANCE

Covers human performance including physiology, psychology and flight health.

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13-08694JAA PPL 2 HUMAN PERFORMANCE$39.95
13-08755E-BOOK JAA PPL HUMAN PERFORM$29.95

APPLIED AVIATION PHYSIOLOGY

Help in the understanding of the basic functions and reactions of the human body to the many facets of modern flight. Text covers the elementary scientific information necessary for understanding some of the more complex physiological functions of the human body, as well as some of the more advanced concepts encountered by humans in flight.

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13-09850APPLIED AVIATION PHYSIOLOGY$49.95

SURVIVING THE FIRST 24 HOURS
OF A FORCED LANDING

This book clearly illustrates that even the most benign forced landing could result in spending the night in the wilderness.

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13-08967SURV 1ST 24HRS OF FORCED LAND$13.95

AVIATION SURVIVAL SENSE

The purpose of this handbook is twofold: it should be used (1) for preflight planning to prepare for potential search, rescue, and/or survival situations, and (2) as a practical field guide for dealing with a variety of problems and challenges encountered in an actual survival situation. It should be clear that this document is not intended to replace aviation operational and emergency checklists.

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13-09918H/B FOR AVIAT SURVIVAL SENSE$31.95

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION

Covers all aspects of aircraft accident investigations. Includes new information on the investigation of in-flight fires, electrical circuitry, and composite structure failure. Explains the investigation procedures required by the NTSB and ICAO. Covers basic investigation techniques, aeronautical and structural knowledge useful to investigators. Also covers analysis, investigation management and report writing. Fully indexed.

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13-09846AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT INVESTIGATE$69.95

OXFORD AVIATION JAA ATPL HUMAN PERFORMANCE

ATPL Training Manual 8: Human Performance & Limitations teaches the student pilot to appreciate the limitations of the human body operating in an aviation environment as well as dealing with all the aspects of the decision making process relevant to the pilot.

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13-08718JAA ATPL HUMAN PERFORMANCE$78.95
13-08765E-BOOK JAA ATPL HUMAN PERFORM$59.95

AVIATION SAFETY
THE HUMAN FACTOR

Aviation Safety - The Human Factor also gives the professional the information needed to apply principles of human factors to investigations.

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13-09849AVIATION SAFTEY HUMAN FACTOR$29.95

A PILOT'S GUIDE TO SAFETY

Author John Lowery gives you a "cause and effect" look at a wide variety of mishaps in his book, A Pilots Guide to Safety.

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13-07769A PILOTS GUIDE TO SAFETY$16.95

RISK MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK

FAA-H-8083-2, Risk Management Handbook (2009) is a tool designed to help recognize and manage risk. It provides a higher level of training to the pilot in command (PIC) who wishes to aspire to a greater understanding of the aviation environment and become a better pilot. This handbook is for pilots of all aircraft from Weight-Shift Control (WSC) to a Piper Cub, a Twin Beechcraft, or a Boeing 747.

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13-10231FAA RISK MANAGEMENT H/B$15.75

CONTROLLING PILOT ERROR: AUTOMATION

With up to 80% of accidents attributed to pilot error, this new series is critically important. It identifies and examines the ten top areas of concern to pilot safety.

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13-07728CONTROLLING PILOT ERROR: AUTOMATIONWas $15.96
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CONTROLLING PILOT ERROR: FATIGUE

This book contains real-life pilot stories drawn from FAA/NASA databases, valuable "save-yourself" techniques and an action agenda of preventive techniques pilots can implement to avoid risks.

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13-07719CONTROLLING PILOT ERROR: FATIGUEWas $15.95
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BASIC FLIGHT PHYSIOLOGY

Now updated and expanded, this definitive text on the mind and body in the flying environment will benefit everyone who flies, particulary civilian pilots. You'll get eye-opening, potentially accident-preventing information on how to anticipate and compensate for the physiological effects unique to flying that can erode performance.

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13-07717BASIC FLIGHT PHYSIOLOGYWas $47.96
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SAFE AIR TRAVEL COMPANION

In Safe Air Travel Companion, Dan McKinnon, an expert in commercial travel and survival, calmly, clearly, and rationally spells them out. In this one-of-a-kind resource, learn smart travel strategies for business and personal travel for yourself as well as your family.

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13-07757SAFE AIR TRAVEL COMPANIONWas $10.36
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THE AIR TRAFFIC SYSTEM: A COMMONSENSE GUIDE

Everything within the air traffic control (ATC) systems exists for the purpose of getting the airplane from Point A to Point B as efficiently as possible without hitting the ground, obstructions, or other aircraft.

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11-08845THE AIR TRAFFIC SYSTEM: A COMMONSENSE GUIDE$19.95

COMMERCIAL AVIATION SAFETY

This text offers the best guidance on today's security concerns on the ground and in the air, changes in systems and regulations, new maintenance and flight technologies, and recent accidents.

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''THE PILOT'S BURDEN'' (BOOK)

This book looks critically at a number of factors, including aircraft and cockpit design, the constant growth of aviation regulations, the pressures on the air traffic control systems and computers in planes, to explain the growing demands on pilots.

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17-00009THE PILOTS BURDEN: FLIGHT SAFETY AND THE ROOTS OF PILOT ERROR$16.75

CONTROLLING PILOT ERROR
RUNWAY INCURSIONS

With up to 80% of accidents attributed to pilot error, this new series is critically important. It identifies and examines the ten top areas of concern to pilot safety. Each book contains real-life pilot stories drawn from FAA/NASA databases, valuable "save-yourself" techniques and an action agenda of preventive techniques pilots can implement to avoid risks.

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17-00089CONTROLLING PILOT ERROR SERIES BOOK 11: RUNWAY INCURSIONS$13.50