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Rod Machado's How to Fly an Airplane Handbook (Book or eBook)

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*Rod Machado’s How to Fly an Airplane Handbook - 510 full-color pages. 
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   Thinking about learning to fly? Then this is the book for you.
   This is a handbook for student pilots but it’s also a practical book for those who want to improve their basic flying skills. In addition, it’s an excellent book for helping flight instructors teach their students in a more efficient and effective manner. This book covers simple and complex single-engine airplanes having tricycle landing gear. This is not a comprehensive taildragger handbook. 
   
Why should you purchase this book? 
   
Many of today’s pilots rely excessively on their panel instruments to control their airplanes in visual conditions. Unfortunately, “panel pilots” never learn to fly by the seat of their pants, which involves flying skills that primarily depend on sights, sounds and tactile sensations. Simply stated, relying primarily on your panel instruments to fly an airplane won’t make you a confident pilot nor will it make you a safe pilot. That’s why this handbook focuses on the basics of “attitude flying” and developing practical “stick and rudder” flying skills. These are the skills that give you complete control of your airplane and allow you to predict what it will do, can do and cannot do. 
   
Contained within these pages are techniques for controlling and evaluating the height and trajectory of your glidepath as well as strategies for managing the roundout and landing flare. You’ll learn how to handle crosswind landings, how to recover from the occasional bad landing, how to perform ground reference maneuvers for both the private and commercial pilot certificate, and much more. You’ll also benefit from Rod Machado’s insights and wisdom gained by teaching pilots for over 40 years. You’ll also laugh as you learn. (Downloads are non-refundable.)

This valuable one-stop handbook contains the information necessary to:
✈Learn the basic fundamentals of flying any airplane.

✈Make flight training easier, less expensive and more enjoyable.
✈Master all the private and commercial checkride maneuvers.
✈Learn the “stick and rudder” philosophy of flying an airplane.
✈Prevent an airplane from accidentally stalling and spinning.
✈Allow you to learn to land an airplane quickly and enjoyably.
✈Make you a better instructor by providing unique teaching
✈strategies and explanations for student training. 

As a comprehensive information sourcebook, these pages include:
✈Practical flying skills that rely on sights, sounds and tactile sensations.

✈The theory and practice of attitude flying for pilots of all levels.
✈Multiple strategies for evaluating when to round out and flare for landing.
✈Multiple methods for controlling the airplane’s glidepath and airspeed.
✈Strategies for evaluating the desired landing spot and glidepath angle.
✈Techniques for understanding and flying ground reference maneuvers.
✈Landing corrections for bounces, floating, porpoising and ballooning.
✈Advice, wisdom and insights based on practical flying experience.
✈Complex airplane operations, night flying, traffic pattern operations,
✈slow flight, stall and spin recognition and recovery, and much more.

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Ian T.

The book is full of little gems

Reading Machado’s How to Fly an Airplane handbook is like taking a lesson. With landings, for example, he goes beyond describing how the aerodynamics work to discuss exactly where to look and why. With steep turns, he describes the visual references and how they change with left and right turns. The book is full of little gems like this that pilots normally only get from the best instructors in a one-on-one lesson.

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Kissel 159

Great teaching tool

Met all my expectations and more. Great teaching tool!

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Capt Dennis P Hillen USAIRWAYS Retired

Comment on Rod Machado's How to Fly an Airplane Handbook

Hi Rod. Received your how to fly book. Want you to know that it's great. Started flying in 53 at age 15.... If your book had been available it all would have been so helpful. I have been a CFI since 1960. Airlines from 61 to 95. Was a line instructor for 25 years. Just want to thank you for a treasurer. Kids starting out now really are fortunate to have your book. Thank You from all of us.

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T. Johnson

New techniques and fresh approaches to traditional subjects

I appreciate Rod's book "How to Fly an Airplane". After 25 years of flying, I'm always eager to learn new techniques and fresh approaches to traditional subjects. It's difficult to imagine what a challenge it must be to write a textbook of such scope. The iPad App versions of his books are great, as they allow easy access when time permits (during layovers). Thank you, Rod, for your hard work and dedication to educating (and humoring) the GA community.

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J. Rickel

A loyal fan

I'm a big fan of Rod's Private Pilot Handbook/Audiobook. I was very excited to learn of his How to Fly an Airplane Handbook. I purchased it (and the audio book) as soon as I was able and am enjoying it at least as much as his Private Pilot Handbook. It occurred to me (as I'm sure it has to Rod) that together these products offer a complete theory/practice integrated ground/flight training solution (minus the flight instructor, of course).

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Andrew T. Duane

Machado at his best.

Best book for thoroughly understanding how to fly.

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H. Swerdlin

Thanks to Rod's books and audio books and videos I have been a CFI for 7 years. I continue to use his teaching materials to teach my students.

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Chris Marquette

Great Book

Great book. Helped me understand some of the things I didn't fully grasp. Passed the checkride with the help from Rod

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Dave

Great stick and rudder manual!

Great help for a student pilot. Think of it as a more detailed and updated version of the classic flying manual titled “Stick and Rudder”. Will continue to be a reference for years to come!

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Tree Hugger Joe

Great Book

The book is great, it breaks down details of flying in a simple manner and I love the illustrations. I like that Rod sprinkles the book with tidbits of knowledge. What I did not like was the price, but it is worth it.