Self-Reliant Pilot : Alaskan Style Training

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910157764403321
• Autore: Quirk Bill
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago : , : Publication Consultants, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-59433-565-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Soggetti: Bush flying; Flight training
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Warning and Disclaimer -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Becoming Your Own Self-Reliant Pilot -- Alaska's Flying Environment -- Alaska's Extreme Flying -- Alaska's Elite Pilots -- Alaskan Style Training-Overview -- Introduction -- Knowledge and Training to Be the Best Pilot -- Alaskan Training Paradigm: Make Simple the Difficult Things -- Flying by the Seat of Your Pants -- Situational Awareness -- Alaskan Style Training-Methods -- Precision Landings -- Takeoff Operations -- Landings Operations -- Managing the Wind -- Crosswind Operations -- Measuring Landing and Takeoff Distances -- Selecting Landing Areas from Your Cockpit -- Advanced Training -- Preventing Aircraft Accidents caused by Ground Effect -- Caution for Takeoffs in Heavily-Loaded Aircraft -- Dangers of Landing in Low Light -- Importance of an Engine Analyzer -- Emergency Equipment -- Aircraft Tie-Downs in the Backcountry -- Alaskan Bushwheels -- Use of Flaps on Takeoff -- Other Training Missions -- Flying Difficulties Related to Weather -- Alaska's Inadequate Weather Reporting System -- Learning to Read the Weather -- Understanding VFR into IMC Accidents -- Aircraft Accidents -- Fatal Aircraft Accidents Down Sharply -- Alaska Aviation Safety Foundation Seminar -- Aircraft Accident Rate in Alaska -- Pilot Error -- Never Stall your Airplane -- Myths about Stall Landings -- Reduction in the Excessive GA Accident ; Rate -- Lower GA Aircraft Accident Rate -- Cardinal Rules for Best Pilot -- Winter Flying Operations -- Ski Flying Operations -- Take the Young Flying -- Flying Wildlife Surveys in Alaska -- First Wildlife Surveys -- Moose Surveys in the Piper Cub and the Arctic Tern -- Trumpeter Swan Surveys -- Dall Sheep and Mountain Goat Surveys -- Bald Eagle Surveys -- Brown Bear Surveys.; Black Bear Surveys -- Other Wildlife Surveys -- Aerial Wolf Observations -- Part II: Compendium of Alaskan Images -- Author's Images of Alaska's Exquisite Flying Environs -- Part III: Memoranda -- Author's Short Narratives on Flying in Alaska.
• Sommario/riassunto: Color-illustrated, Self-Reliant Pilot focuses on flying small taildragger aircraft and landing them in remote and challenging terrain in wild Alaska.It displays the inspiration of flying in Alaska, defining who are the incredible pilots that fly Alaska's backcountry and showing the training necessary to become the best pilot you can be.