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> >flying is until youve read "Stick and Rudder" by Wolfgang
> >Langewiesche. Its subtitled "An Explanation of the Art of Flying". > >That says it all! > I thought so, too, during the year it took me to solo. I think it held > me back. It took me a huge, wasted chunk of time to realize that > Langewiesche was describing an airport approach utterly different than > what we are taught: Its not irrelevant so much as dated - like any book, you have to realize that some of Stick and Rudder (which, dont get me wrong, I recommend to everyone) is no longer good advice because of changes in regulations since it was written in the 40s or 50s. Traffic patterns are a creature of the FAA (CAA, then, I suppose), and like all such things will change with time. Check the copyright date of any book, and adjust your grain-of-salt supplier accordingly. Anything dealing with the physical handling of an airplane, Langewiesche is superb. Sometimes changes to the world in general make some of Langewiesches work less useful than it once was - I remember in one of his books the recommendation that observing the smoke from smokestacks or railroad locomotives can give you a good idea of which way the winds blowing. Still good advice, just harder to find a good smoking railroad locomotive anymore. Mike Brown Cessna 172M N46493 |
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