Find Rod Machado software downloads at CNET Download.com, the most comprehensive source for safe, trusted, and spyware-free downloads on the Web. How to Fly an Airplane: Rod Machado’s new “How-To” manual hits all the right buttons. July 13, 2015 By Bill Cox. When I was learning to fly back in the 1960s, Wolfgang Langewiesche’s seminal book, Stick & Rudder, and William Kershner’s series of aviation training manuals were the standards by which other systems were measured.
From Rod Machado: Rod Machado's Private Pilot Handbook - Second Edition, 626 full color pages. Flying is fun, and with Rod Machado's Private Pilot Handbook, learning about flying is now fun, as well. If you want to learn to fly, or even just learn about what makes a plane fly, you'll find this lavishly illustrated, fast-paced book to be the best available guide. Written in a clear and witty style, the Private Pilot Handbooks contains more than 1, 200 illustrations and photos that are a standalone education about why we can fly. Studying for your private pilot oral and knowledge exams? Everything you need is in this book. It's not just a beginner's book--it's a comprehensive and useful reference resource for private and even professional pilots. As one flight student said, 'This handbook explains why things are the way they are, in a way that's easy to understand. I learned lots of things in Rod's book that I had not read ANYWHERE else, despite years of reading aviation literature.' Rod has been teaching people how to fly airplanes since 1973. His highly acclaimed teaching methods have established him as one of aviation's most respected teachers. Using analogies, memory aids, clear and detailed graphics and a little humor, Rod reduces the complexity of all aviation subjects (aerodynamics, meteorology, navigation, airspace, etc) to a level that even the non-technical person can easily understand. Simply stated, Rod Machado makes learning about flying a fun and enjoyable experience. This 626 page, one-stop handbook contains: Easy-to-understand analogies and examples for technical subjects such as engines, aerodynamics, flight instruments and the airplane's electrical system. Weather codes: METAR and TAF, and Internet weather technology. Water model of electricity allows quick learning and understanding of the airplane's electrical system. Alphabet airspace made E-Z with 3-D color illustrations. Step-by-step procedures for planning a cross country flight. Clear, down-to-earth explanations of pertinent FARs--Parts 61 and 91. Easy to apply navigation methods for VOR, GPS and ADF, and glass cockpits. A wealth of basic and advanced insights, advice and wisdom gleaned from practical experience.
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From Rod Machado: Rod Machado's Private Pilot Handbook - Second Edition, 626 full color pages. Flying is fun, and with Rod Machado's Private Pilot Handbook, learning about flying is now fun, as well. If you want to learn to fly, or even just learn about what makes a plane fly, you'll find this lavishly illustrated, fast-paced book to be the best available guide. Written in a clear and witty style, the Private Pilot Handbooks contains more than 1, 200 illustrations and photos that are a standalone education about why we can fly. Studying for your private pilot oral and knowledge exams? Everything you need is in this book. It's not just a beginner's book--it's a comprehensive and useful reference resource for private and even professional pilots. As one flight student said, 'This handbook explains why things are the way they are, in a way that's easy to understand. I learned lots of things in Rod's book that I had not read ANYWHERE else, despite years of reading aviation literature.' Rod has been teaching people how to fly airplanes since 1973. His highly acclaimed teaching methods have established him as one of aviation's most respected teachers. Using analogies, memory aids, clear and detailed graphics and a little humor, Rod reduces the complexity of all aviation subjects (aerodynamics, meteorology, navigation, airspace, etc) to a level that even the non-technical person can easily understand. Simply stated, Rod Machado makes learning about flying a fun and enjoyable experience. This 626 page, one-stop handbook contains: Easy-to-understand analogies and examples for technical subjects such as engines, aerodynamics, flight instruments and the airplane's electrical system. Weather codes: METAR and TAF, and Internet weather technology. Water model of electricity allows quick learning and understanding of the airplane's electrical system. Alphabet airspace made E-Z with 3-D color illustrations. Step-by-step procedures for planning a cross country flight. Clear, down-to-earth explanations of pertinent FARs--Parts 61 and 91. Easy to apply navigation methods for VOR, GPS and ADF, and glass cockpits. A wealth of basic and advanced insights, advice and wisdom gleaned from practical experience.
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Rod Machado’s How to Fly an Airplane Handbook - 510 full color pages. This app is a fixed-page PDF containing the exact content of the physical book. There are no provisions for printing and highlighting in this app.
Thinking about learning to fly? Then this is the book for you.
This is a handbook for student pilots but it’s also a practical book for those who want to improve their basic flying skills. In addition, it’s an excellent book for helping flight instructors teach their students in a more efficient and effective manner. This book covers simple and complex single-engine airplanes having tricycle landing gear. This is not a comprehensive taildragger handbook.
Why should you purchase this book?
Many of today’s pilots rely excessively on their panel instruments to control their airplanes in visual conditions. Unfortunately, “panel pilots” never learn to fly the by the seat of their pants, which involves flying skills that primarily depend on sights, sounds and tactile sensations. Simply stated, relying primarily on your panel instruments to fly an airplane won’t make you a confident pilot nor will it make you a safe pilot. That’s why this 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.
Contained within these pages are techniques for controlling and evaluating the height and trajectory of your glidepath as well as strategies for managing the roundout and landing flare. You’ll learn how to handle crosswind landings, how to recover from the occasional bad landing, how to perform ground reference maneuvers for both the private and commercial pilot certificate, and much more. You’ll also benefit from Rod Machado’s insights and wisdom gained by teaching pilots for over 40 years. You’ll also laugh as you learn.
This handbook contains the information necessary to:
- Make your flight training experience 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.
- Give flight instructors additional tools to help them teach more efficiently.
Thinking about learning to fly? Then this is the book for you.
This is a handbook for student pilots but it’s also a practical book for those who want to improve their basic flying skills. In addition, it’s an excellent book for helping flight instructors teach their students in a more efficient and effective manner. This book covers simple and complex single-engine airplanes having tricycle landing gear. This is not a comprehensive taildragger handbook.
Why should you purchase this book?
Many of today’s pilots rely excessively on their panel instruments to control their airplanes in visual conditions. Unfortunately, “panel pilots” never learn to fly the by the seat of their pants, which involves flying skills that primarily depend on sights, sounds and tactile sensations. Simply stated, relying primarily on your panel instruments to fly an airplane won’t make you a confident pilot nor will it make you a safe pilot. That’s why this 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.
Contained within these pages are techniques for controlling and evaluating the height and trajectory of your glidepath as well as strategies for managing the roundout and landing flare. You’ll learn how to handle crosswind landings, how to recover from the occasional bad landing, how to perform ground reference maneuvers for both the private and commercial pilot certificate, and much more. You’ll also benefit from Rod Machado’s insights and wisdom gained by teaching pilots for over 40 years. You’ll also laugh as you learn.
This handbook contains the information necessary to:
- Make your flight training experience 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.
- Give flight instructors additional tools to help them teach more efficiently.
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New book about the 'other' side
I have all of rod's books and all of them are well written with so many hidden tips. This book doesn't deal with the theory but rather with the practice of flying. Just starting it but already found some interesting facts that I hadn't known in 1400+ hours of flying.
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