Explains weather in a nontechnical way, offering pilots useful understanding of weather and practical knowledge of how to judge it and fly it. This title covers weather flying psychology, en route weather changes, radar and how to use it and taking off in bad weather.
Explaining the different phases of the art of flying, this book shows what the pilot does, when he flies, just how he does it, and why. It is applicable to large airplanes and small, old airplanes and new, and is of interest to learners, accomplished pilots and also to the instructors.
Wolfgang Langewiesche is revered among pilots for his 1944 flying primer, Stick and Rudder, currently in its seventieth printing. Considered the bible of aviation, it tells us the how of flying; America from the Air tells us the why.