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Instrument Survival Manual

by Rod Machado

ISBN-10:

0971201501

ISBN-13:

9780971201507

Published Date:

2003

Edition:

2nd Edition

Pages:

424

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Rod Machado's Instrument Pilot's Survival Manual is more about honing, perfecting, and feeling comfortable with instrument skills than about learning those skills from scratch as in the formal textbooks. This book will help you think and fly like a pro. It will help you understand the system, not just memorize it. And then, your decisions and actions become based on your ability to reason things out - a far better situation than merely having a few scattered facts from which to choose. Highly il

From the Introduction This book was born of the motivation to provide IFR pilots with answers to questions they most frequently ask.
These are questions no single IFR publication has ever attempted to address such as:
* How do I know those clouds have thunderstorms in them?
* How do I avoid icing conditions? How can I tell if icing is present?
* What is the most efficient way to scan my instruments?
* Is there a precise way to determine in-flight visibility at decision altitudes?
* What are some of the problems with GPS approaches?
* What is the best way to acquire confidence with instrument flying?
* How are instrument approaches built to accommodate human performance? These questions and many more are what this book is all about. And that is why this book is called Instrument Survival Manual.

1] Thinking like the pros
2] The art of the instrument scan
3] Self talk for survival
4] Managing Cockpit resources
5] ADF - a living legacy
6] the truth about holding patterns
7] How the IFR system works
8] The Art of the Approach
9] Thunderstorm avoidance
10] Avoiding structural icing
11] The Language of IFR charts
12] Equipment for the approach
13] Secrets on the front side
14] Procedure turn secrets
15] Approach segments
16] At a minimum: decision altitude and MDA
17] Instrument departures
18] Enroute chart secrets
19] GPs, RNAV, & Approach charts
20] The GPs machine
21] Advanced Thunderstorm avoidance