The Instrument Flying Manual

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The Instrument Flying Manual
by Trevor Thom
Text Book 625 pages 2003 Test Guide 469 pages

Text Book 2003 Test Guide

$34.95 $19.95

Are you ready for the next step? An instrument rating can greatly expand your horizons, allow you to fly while others wait, and help you get home if some portion of your route becomes obscured by weather. And even if you never intend to venture into the clouds, having the skills to fly on the gauges will make you an overall safer and more confident pilot in clear VFR, marginal VFR, and in surprisingly or quickly deteriorating conditions.
These are the up-to-date versions of the Instrument Flying Text and Test Guide used by most of America's flight schools. Get it because it is your first step towards your rating; or get it because just the book knowledge alone will enhance your VFR abilities when the unexpected turns up over the next ridge.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Textbook

INTRODUCTION
ATTITUDE FLYING
    Instrument scanning technique                                19
    The instruments                                              31
    Straight & level flight                                      73
    Straight climb and descent                                   95
    Turning                                                     111
    Unussual attitudes                                          133
    Instrument flight on a partial panel                        143
    Suggested training manuevers                                163
RADIO NAVIGATION AIDS
    Introduction                                                181
    Radar                                                       183
    DME                                                         207
    The NDB and ADF                                             213
    The relative bearing indicator                              231
    The RMI and rotable card ADF                                259
    The VOR                                                     273
    The instrument landing system                               309
    Area navigation                                             357
    VHF direction finding                                       367
IFR METEOROLOGY
    Icing                                                       371
    Visibility                                                  379
    Clouds                                                      387
    Thunderstorms                                               401
    High level meterology                                       415
    Wind, air masses, and fronts                                419
    Weather reports and forecasts                               431
THE IFR SYSTEM
    Regulations for the instrument pilot                        477
    Preparation for flight                                      505
    Instrument departures                                       531
    En route                                                    543
    Holding patterns, procedure turns, & DME arcs               553
    Instrument approaches                                       575
    Visual manuevers                                            603