Welcome to your instructor in an audiobook. Written by veteran ground and flight instructor Rod Machado, this audiobook is presented in a warm, conversational manner and spiced with humor. Rod's tried and true methods of instruction, honed through more than 30 years of teaching experience, have achieved exceptional results with thousands of aviation schools.

Now you can enjoy Rod's popular Private Pilot Handbook during your daily commute, or at home in the comfort of your own chair. Play these CD's to learn or review important concepts during those otherwise wasted hours that many of us spend driving.As one pilot said, ' I feel like I had a flight instructor right there in the car with me.'

While you can listen to the first eight chapters of the book without referring to the text, you'll still want to use the actual Private Pilot Handbook as a reference for reviewing pictures, graphs and many of the incidental ASRS stories scattered throughout the text.This exciting new CD is the key to learning faster and better, while maximizing use of your scare time. Don't waste a minute. Start listening to Rod Machado's Private Pilot Handbook.

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.

Run time: 30 hours.