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Real-life case studies illustrate each emergency situation
Do you know the best way to get found if you're forces down, radioless, in the wilderness? Can you land in heavy surface winds? What happens if your engine fails? Are you prepared for the unexpected?
This guide can help you:
- Apply the best prevention, management, and correction strategies for all in-flight emergencies
- Fly knowing you're armed with the best solutions to in-air crises
- Follow critical preflight and training procedures that protect you aloft
- Learn preferred ways of coping with icing, thunderstorms, wind shear, mechanical and electrical failures, IFR conditions, navigational errors, spatial disorientation, and more
- Discover equipment to help you identify and reduce dangers that might otherwise go undetected
- Evaluate avionics products before you need them
- Learn from other pilots' errors
Pilot Jerry Eichenberger's Handling In-Flight Emergencies is the best way to prepare for the unexpected - and to fly more confidently and safely.
| ** | Chapters |
| 1 | Attitudes |
| 2 | Engine failure |
| 3 | The VFR pilot in IFR conditions |
| 4 | Electrical system failure |
| 5 | Getting found |
| 6 | Control systems emergencies |
| 7 | Water landings |
| 8 | Icing |
| 9 | Thunderstorm encounters |
| 10 | Loss of communications |
| 11 | Partial-panel flying |
| 12 | Some other happenings and suggestions |
| 13 | Conclusion |
About the Author
Jerry A. Eichenberger is a licensed commercial pilot, rated for single- and multiengine airplanes, helicopters and gliders. He holds an airplane instrument rating, and is also a certified flight instructor, rated for airplanes, single- and multiengine, and instrument instruction.
He is a practicing attorney who devotes his legal time to the area of aviation, representing manufacturers, maintenance facilities, flight schools, airlines, FBOs, airports, and individual pilots and aircraft owners.
Soft Cover
300 pages, Indexed
Publisher
McGraw-Hill (2002)
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