CompleteMartialArts.com - Mental Math for Pilots (Professional Aviation series)
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Manufacturer: Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 629
EAN: 9781560275107
ISBN: 1560275103
Label: Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc.
Manufacturer: Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2004-09-01
Publisher: Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc.
Studio: Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc.
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Editorial Reviews:
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For pilots looking to improve their math skills in the cockpit and easily perform math calculations in their heads, this book offers numerous tips and invaluable tricks to help in all areas of cockpit calculations. Pilots are guided through basic and more advanced formulas with explanations on how to perform them without needing paper or electronic calculators, step-by-step instructions, practice exercises, and personal advice from experienced pilots. Easy and quick methods for calculating airborne math problems, enroute descents, and visual descent points are covered. Numerous references, math memorization tables, lists of formulas, and definitions for terms and abbreviations are provided. This book will be useful for pilots gearing up for airline interviews, preparing for checkrides or proficiency checks, or wanting to improve their in-flight calculations performance.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Very handy
Comment: This book can be pretty useful with lost of tips and well summarized formulas with explanations and different ways of calculating and dealing with a variety of prblems a pilot faces on his everyday operations, I strongly recommend it
Customer Rating:
Summary: Too little for too much
Comment: This book is too short for too much money.
"Pilot's rules of thumb" has all of the same information AND MORE for LESS money.
Pilot's rules of thumb: Rules of thumb, easy aviation math, handy formulas, quick tips
The typeface is very large making the "book" a pamphlet - a very expensive pamphlet.
I have been flying jets at the airlines for over 10 years now and there are really only a handful of basic formulas you need and spending the time to go through the entire book would be a waste of your interview preparation time...even though you could thoroughly go through the entire book, cover-to-cover, in an aftenoon.
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Summary: good but not great
Comment: OK reference book. For pro pilots it's a good review but probably nothing you didn't know at one time. It's not a big book either, you could read it in an hour or two. And their is too much basic 2nd/3rd grade math: How to add, subtract, multiply, etc. that was unnecessary. But if you forgot how to figure a descent rate, VDP, TAS or ground speed, than it's a good review.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not recommended
Comment: For its price, I found this little booklet not helpful. The first 5 pages are essentially advertising for a consulting firm (the author's employer) that prepares pilots for airline interviews. The final 5 pages again are mostly advertising for that same company's products. A 14-page appendix contains a review of how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide (at the level of teaching you that 3 + 4 = 7). Another 10-page appendix contains addition, subtraction, multiplication and division tables. In the remainder of the book (55 - very small - pages), I found exactly one useful rule: how to meet a crossing restriction. There are one or two other rules that in years of corporate flying I have never found useful (such as how to calculate your hydroplaning speed - interesting in concept, but practically not very useful).
If your math is below high school level, this book may be useful to you. Otherwise, I wouldn't recommend this book.
If you are planning to prepare for an interview, I would recommend you save the money you would have spent on this book and buy "Everything explained for the professional pilot" instead; and if you are interviewing for a job in a turbine-powered aircraft, "The turbine pilot's flight manual" - both those books are MUCH more helpful.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very Useful for pilots
Comment: This book is very good for pilots who need to refresh on their basics
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