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Flying with Angels: The Microlight Experience (Paperback)

by Kevin Rutland (Author)
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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd (9 Mar 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1840371366
  • ISBN-13: 978-1840371369
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 424,093 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Kevin Rutland's adventures and photography combine to provide a book that is not only informative, but also provides an insight into what makes mere mortals launch themselves into the wild blue skies.

From the Author
The Microlight Flying Experience - fun and adventures
This is a book intended to attract and inspire anyone with an interest in any form of aviation. Flying With Angels is all about the fun to be had in the air above us.

My personal experiences, thrills and spills, and memorable moments are detailed to provide the reader with an insight into what can be done with this unique new form of aerial machine. The places I visited, the new friends I made, together with the experiences of training, local flying, cross country and competitive flying, both Nationally and Internationally, are supported with many photographs. Above all, the book is about having fun in a truly unique way.

I hope that you find it informative as well as entertaining. Microlighting is a pastime for everyone wanting to fly.

Microlighting is also known as Ultralighting in the USA, where the machines are known as trikes. Trike flying is becoming a big attraction as machines are imported in increasing numbers. You can now fly them almost anywhere!


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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but not riveting, 9 Jan 2004
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Being a PPL who is interested in trying my hand at microlighting, I was interested to read this book having heard good reviews. It is an interesting account of how a leading proponent of the sport got into microlighting and some of his more noteworthy experiences but I can't say I have come away any more enlightened or eager to take it up.

His style isn't that compelling and it read more like a journal - short staccato chapters that don't flow. For example, he's on a cross channel flight and one of his party suffers engine failure, ditches and looses his life. This is covered in less than a paragraph. Microlighting is a relatively dangerous sport and I wanted to know how he felt about this, did it shake his confidence, what was the reaction of the other pilots, how did he reconcile this with his chosen pastime. This important aspect of microlighting was glossed over in a few sentences. And that basically sums up the book. Too brief and unsatisfying.

That said, Kevin Rutland provides some unique insight into a sport he has mastered and I would read more of his work. However, for the price, this book is not good value.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant account on the ups and downs of Microlighting, 22 Aug 2001
This book, written by one of the leading lights in the Microlighting fraternity, is an easy to read account on the joys of owning and flying a microlight. It details the authors trials and tribulations, and his involvment in every aspect of the sport. This is a book for anyone owning, flying or just thinking of microlighting.
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