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Are you looking to Learn to Fly? Want to get your Private Pilot License?

Rod Machado's How to Fly an Airplane Handbook (Book, PDF eBook and/or Audiobook) helps you do both!

Rod Machado's How to Fly an Airplane Handbook is a must-have for student pilots but also a practical book for pilots who want to improve their basic flying skills. This book covers simple and complex single-engine airplanes having tricycle landing gear. Rod Machado's How to Fly an Airplane Handbook focuses on the basics of "attitude flying" and developing practical "stick and rudder" flying skills. These are the skills that give you complete control of your airplane and allow you to predict what it will do, can do and cannot do.

Rod Machado's How to Fly an Airplane Handbook (Book / PDF eBook) 510-pages contain:

• Practical flying skills that rely on sights, sounds and tactile sensations.
• The theory and practice of attitude flying for pilots of all levels.
• Multiple strategies for evaluating when to round out and flare for landing.
• Multiple methods for controlling the airplane’s glidepath and airspeed.
• Strategies for evaluating the desired landing spot and glidepath angle.
• Techniques for understanding and flying ground reference maneuvers.
• Landing corrections for bounces, floating, porpoising and ballooning.
• Advice, wisdom and insights based on practical flying experience.
• Complex airplane operations, night flying, traffic pattern operations, slow flight, stall and spin recognition and recovery, and much more.

Using Rod Machado's How to Fly an Airplane Handbook you will:

• Learn the basic fundamentals of flying any airplane.
• Make flight training easier, less expensive and more enjoyable.
• Master all the private and commercial checkride maneuvers.
• Learn the “stick and rudder” philosophy of flying an airplane.
• Prevent an airplane from accidentally stalling and spinning.
• Allow you to learn to land an airplane quickly and enjoyably.
• Make you a better instructor by providing unique teaching strategies and explanations for student training.

About Rod Machado's Aviation Learning Center

Flying since 1970 and instructing since 1973, Rod Machado has over 10,000 hours of flight time earned the hard way—one CFI hour at a time. Since 1977 he has taught hundreds of flight instructor revalidation clinics and safety seminars and he was named the 1991 Western Region Flight Instructor of the Year. Rod holds all fixed-wing (powered) flight instructor ratings as well as an airline transport pilot license. He also owns a Cessna P210. For six years, Rod wrote and coanchored ABC’s Wide World of Flying. He is AOPA’s National CFI spokesman and a National Accident Prevention Counselor appointed by the FAA in Washington D. C. Rod is the flight instructor voice on Microsoft's Flight Simulator starting with the 2000 version through the X version and he wrote the flight lesson tutorials for the textbook that accompanies the software. He is also an instructor on Cessna's Computer-Based Private Pilot CD-ROM and the author of seven aviation books, four video DVDs, three audiobooks and a CFI image DVD. You can read his monthly column in AOPA Pilot magazine as well as in Flight Training Magazine. Shop with confidence!

Prices:
eBook (PDF) - $44.95
Physical Book - $59.95
Audiobook & eBook (PDF) - $91.95

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