Welcome to a collection of Rod Machado's most popular aviation articles and stories from the last 15 years. Rod Machado's Plane Talk contains nearly 100 flights of fun and knowledge that will stimulate your aviation brain and tickle your funny bone. In addition to the educational topics listed below, you'll read about higher learning, the value of aviation history, aviation literature, aviation art and how an artist's perspective can help you better understand weather. You'll also find more than a few articles written to make you laugh.
In this book you'll discover......
How To Assess And Manage Aviation Risks.Learn how safe pilots think, how to apply the safety strategy used by General Jimmy Doolittle (known as the master of the calculated risk), how famed gunfighter Wyatt Earp can help you cope with aviation's risks, how misleading aviation statistics can be and why flying isn't as dangerous as some folks say it is.
Several Techniques For Making Better Cockpit Decisions.Discover how to use your inner copilot in the cockpit and the value of one good question asked upside down.
New Ways To Help You Cope With Temptation.Fly safer by developing an aviation code of ethics, understand how human nature can trick you into flying beyond your limits, why good pilots are prejudiced and how a concept like honor will protect you while aloft.
How To Use Your Brain For A Change.You can learn faster by understanding how the learning curve - the brain's performance chart - is affected by the little lies we tell ourselves, the mistakes we need to make, our need to please our instructors, and simulator and memory training.
The Truth About Flying, Anxiety And Fear.Learn why it's often the safest of pilots that make excuses instead of fights, why anxiety should be treated as a normal part of flying, and a three-step process to avoiding panic in the cockpit.
How To Handle First Time Flyers And Anxious Passengers. Discover how to behave around new passengers, how to avoid most common mistakes that scare passengers in airplanes and how to reduce the cockpit stress between pilot and spouse.
Favorite Skills Used By Good Pilots.Learn why good pilots scan behind an airplane as well as ahead of it, are sometimes rough and bully-like on the flight controls, occasionally fly without using any of the airplane's electronic navigation equipment, don't worry about turbulence breaking their airplanes, master airspeed control as a means of making better landings and much more.
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
442 pages, Indexed, Illustrated
Publisher
The Aviation Speaker's Bureau (2003)
