This unique book contains a wealth of interesting and exciting information on instrument flying. Rod's 27 years of flying experience makes this an important resource. The manual's focus is to help instrument pilots develop better IFR decision-making skills.

Topics Covered:

• Scanning.
• Ice and Thunderstorm Avoidance.
• Jepp and NOS Chart Usage.
• The Truth about holding patterns.
• How the IFR system really works.
• Decision altitude and MDA's.
• Professional Thinking Skills.
• IFR Departure Skills.
• Cockpit Management.

Illustrated with humorous drawings and containing some of the most spectacular reports of pilots gripped by the problems of instrument flight, it's sure to both educate AND entertain you. It's a great tool that discusses important topics they didn't teach you in flight training or ground school.

Instrument Pilot's Survival Manual contains answers to questions that concern the neophyte and the professional instrument pilot.

Questions like:

• How do you know if a cloud contains a thunderstorm?
• How can you use Center & ASR-9 radar to avoid ice and
  convective activity?
• Is there a good way to estimate visibility while at DH or
  MDA?
• Can I increase the efficiency of my scan and reduce my
  cockpit workload?
• How do I interpret and use all those symbols on approach
  charts?
• How do I interpret GPS approach charts?
• How do I fly GPS approaches?

Here's what others say about this great book:

"...this is not a basic training text but a graduate-level study best suited to pilots who've earned their instrument rating (or nearly so) and are about to go into info-shock when they realize how little they know. To date we've seen perhaps a half-dozen must-haves for the IFR pilot's bookshelf and we recommend adding this to the list." - Paul Bertorelli, Editor, IFR.

"It's a ball to read. After seeing most of the IFR texts available, I'd strongly recommend this book to anyone considering initial or brush-up on instrument training." - Bill Cox, Senior Editor, Plane & Pilot

"Best book I have ever read. It answers the questions that, if you were smart enough, you would ask. Only book I would ever read twice. If more people would read Rod's book, the IFR system would run much more smoothly." - Dr. John Phillipp, Glendora, CA

"Machado's ?laugh and learn' method of instruction has made him a popular speaker at hundreds of aviation seminars and it serves the reader well here. This book helps you learn how to think differently in the cockpit and how to acquire the IFR decision-making skills of a professional pilot. If you give this manual the read it deserves, you will find yourself well on the way to being a better IFR pilot - no kidding." - Chuck Stewart, Managing Editor, Private Pilot

About the Author
Rod Machado is a professional speaker who travels across the United States and Europe delighting his listeners with upbeat and lively presentations. Machado truly loves mixing it up with the audience. His unusual talent for simplifying the difficult and adding humor to make the lessons stick has made him a popular lecturer both in and out of aviation.

Flying since 1970 and instructing since 1973, Rod has over 8,000 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.

For six years, Rod wrote and co-anchored 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 2000, 2002 and 2004 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 two books, four videos and two audio cassette albums. You can read his monthly column in AOPA Pilot magazine as well as in Flight Training Magazine.

Soft Cover
572 pages (50 in color), Indexed, Illustrated

Publisher
The Aviation Speaker's Bureau (2003)