BACK to BASICS

Whatever their licenses say, all pilots are student pilots: as long as they live and fly, they never stop learning and relearning. Back to Basics is the first and only complete handbook of aircraft construction, cockpit mechanics, and flight procedures for student pilots at every level of experience. Based on a series of enthusiastically received articles in Flying Magazine, the world's most prestigious aviation journal, it offers simple, clear, precise, and, above all, correct explanations of aeronautical concepts and techniques that are crucial and basic but often overlooked or forgotten. Subjects covered in this book include the following: 

I. THE AIRCRAFT

• the airplane
• wings flaps
• stabilators
• propellers
• the throttle
• the instrument panel
• the engine
• oil
• the electrical system
• turbocharging
• pressurization

II. THE COCKPIT

• engine instruments
• the compass

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