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*Identifies the time frame in which you are most likely to die
*Alerts you to the 12 mistakes most likely to kill you
*Outlines preventive strategies for flying through the zone alive
*Provides guidelines for avoiding, evading, diverting, correcting, and managing dangers
*Includes a "Pilot Personality Self-Assessment Exercise" for an individualized survival strategy
Survive the dangers that lurk in the killing zone.
"DESPITE THE BOOK TITLE, flying is safe." Read the first page
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Initially the book seems a little on the morbid side (to the point of making aviation off-putting) but you soon realise that the author has used a very clever method to get the relevant points across.
Strangely the book also makes you realise why your instructor spent all that time making you revise those vital checks but also highlights areas that 'went in one ear' but didn't really sink in. It certainly made me go back and re-learn everything to a far greater degree and change the way I pilot.
The book is probably only suitable for pilots with 1 hour or more.
Also - at £15 you can't go wrong;
Each chapter covers a category of common mistakes (example booking a VFR flight which turns into IFR along the way). At the start of the chapter the author gives you the stastics of accidents in general aviation accidents for that category broken down by number of hours the pilot clocked up. This is to support his central theme that inexperience, and the consequential bad/reckless judgement that follows, kills.
He then goes on to give NTSB accident reports and then explains why those incidents should never have happened. Where necessary the author gives enough technical information for the reader to comprehend the point(s) he's trying to make. In some chapters he rounds off the chapter with reports from pilots who came close to tragedy but managed, at the last moment, to save themselves.
In my opponion the book does have 3 weaknesses:
1) The author is speaking from an American point of view so, whilst the general points have relevence in all countries, the legal/progression details are not totally applicable;
2) The much-vaunted self-assessment questionaire gives broad information on interpretation but leaves it mostly up to the reader to come up with recommendations; and
3) The book ends a little too quickly. Yes, there is a chapter on Airmanship, and a [very brief] chapter on dealing with the media, but the end of the book still feels abrupt.
As a guide to how not to fly it is invaluable. In fact I would say that it, or a book like it, should be compulsory reading for every student pilot. In fact I believe that a similar book should be done for learner drivers as well. However, that is not to say the book is without fault.
I have only recently started my JAR-PPL training and am keen to learn. My instructor, and the teaching manuals, have given me invaluable information about how to fly the plane. What this book adds, I think, is other information about the mistakes that pilots (both students and certified) continue to make.
A lot of the suggestions (such as not flying into bad weather) seemed very obvious to me but there were other sections that I found very useful and interesting.
The bottom line is that pilots apparently keep making the same common mistakes. This book will tell you what they are and hopefully prevent you from being one of the unfortunate statistics. I recommend this book.
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