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Learn from the experiences of other helicopter pilots.Packed with seventy one powerful lessons, 71 Lessons From The Sky is a new survival guide for helicopter pilots detailing real incidents and accidents taken from the FAA (USA), CHIRP (UK) and CASA (Australia).Learn from Claude Vuichard - as he details his Vortex Ring State Recovery Technique, and from Mark Ogden - editor of Heliops Magazine, as he identifies pitfalls pilots miss in training. Also included are lessons on situational awareness, complacency, fatigue, and stories about wire strikes from pilots who lived to share the tale.Many of the stories are from seasoned aviators and ground crew, but even with all their experience, they were unaware of the potential air disaster ahead of them, falling victim to the situation, but surviving to share their lessons.These lessons offer firsthand experience in identifying the signs aircrew may miss until it's too late.This is the fourth book in the Lessons From The Sky series, offering rare insight into the risks pilots and crew face.An essential read for all current and future pilots. Blue skies and fly safely.

Learn from the largest air force in the world - the US Air Force. 51 Lessons From The Skycontains stories from USAF pilots and crew who lived to share their stories of air incidents, and close calls.If you enjoy Mayday, Air Crash Investigation or Seconds Before Disaster, then you will love this companion book to the best selling General Aviation book 81 Lessons From The Sky and the Commercial and Air Transport Aviation book 101 Lessons From The Sky.51 Lessons From The Sky is possible thanks to the USAF pilots who served and shared their failings and misadventures. All fifty-one stories are introduced by former USAF Test Pilot, Shuttle Pilot and Shuttle Commander Colonel Tom Henricks.Real life unclassified stories straight from the pilots who lived to tell the tale. 51 stories about unique military aircraft, including the F-16 Viper, C, CJ, U-28A, T-1A Jayhawk, C-21 Super Taxi, C-17 Transport, C-130E Hercules, AC-130, HC-130, MC-130H, EC-130H, B-52, KC-135, KC-10, A-10 Thunderbolt, F-15 Eagle, E-3 Sentry, B-1B Bomber, CF-5, CV-22B Osprey and a T-6 II doing aerobatics, and includes a number of declassified stories. It includes the Special Operations Squadron, 77th Fighter Squadron, 36th Maintenance Squadron, 58th Operations Support Squadron, 962nd Airborne Air Control Squadron, 80th Flying Training Wing, 25th Fighter Squadron, 18 OSS/OSOST, 47th Flying Training Wing, 40th and 39th Airlift Squadron, 43rd Airlift Wing, 32nd Air Refueling Squadron. With all crew surviving to tell their tale.Read about complacency, maintenance issues, poor planning, limitations and fatigue, and dozens more easy-to-read true accounts of potentially catastrophic incidents narrowly averted. And the lessons the pilots, the crew, the ground crew, the engineers, and the co-pilots learnt.Learn from the experiences of others so you don't make the same mistakes.An essential read for all current and future crew, aviators and air force personnel. Remember, safety first. Order now.

The companion book to the best selling General Aviation book '81 Lessons From The Sky'.101 Lessons From The Sky focusses on commercial and air transport aviation, and is possible thanks to the pilots who shared their failings and misadventures. Read 101 true stories from pilots with hundreds and thousands of hours of flight experience between them. The flight simulator has nothing on learning from actual stories straight from the pilots who lived to tell the tale. 101 stories about the Boeing 737, and the 767, the CRJ-700, the Beech 99, the ERJ-145, the Airbus A320, a Learjet and a Gulfstream, the CRJ-200, the Airbus A319, and others.Read about airline checklists, complacency, maintenance issues, poor load planning, limitations with dipsticks and fatigue, and dozens more easy-to-read true accounts of potentially catastrophic incidents narrowly averted. And the lessons the pilots, the cabin crew, the ground crew, the engineers, and the co-pilots learnt. And the airline companies and air cargo companies...Learn from the experiences of other pilots so you don't become another air incident statistic. An essential read for all current and future pilots. And remember, safety first. Order now.