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
• 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.