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Take to the skies with 72 Lessons From The Sky and be the 172 pilot who always comes home!This gripping book features seventy-two thrilling true stories from Cessna 172 pilots, revealing valuable lessons learned from accidents and near misses. As the top-selling and most produced aircraft in the world, the Cessna 172 is a favorite among pilots worldwide, and this book provides an inside look into the experiences of some of its most skilled and seasoned operators. Featuring gripping firsthand reports of aviation incidents, including taxiway mishaps, forced landings, near misses, wake vortices, hard landings, avionics failure, gear up landing, flying into the cloud, and more, 72 Lessons From The Sky is an essential read for anyone who wants to improve their skills and fly with confidence. With stories carefully selected and republished with permission from NASA, CASA, and CHIRP, this book is a must-read for current and future Cessna 172 pilots seeking to learn from the real-world experiences of their fellow aviators. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to take your flying skills to the next level.

Roman ruins. A reluctant time traveler. And an army under threat.Can one woman slip back through time to avert a slaughter and save the man she loves?When ancient ruins are discovered on a Northumberland farm, just south of Hadrian's Wall, emotions boil over as treasure seekers and the government descend like locusts. But ancient altars aren't the only riches beneath the soil of Ithaca Farm. Lurking beneath the thin veneer of time is a secret that could threaten the lives of her family and friends. Lillian must find a way to slip back in time to save them all, and the only man she has ever loved.A sweeping saga of friendship, love, and the corruption of power, Ithaca Bound is the continuation of the Old Curiosity Shop time travel trilogy. Follow Lillian as she battles against time, and the formidable march of ancient Rome, to save the ones she loves.Journey back and forth to Roman Britain from the safety of your reading nook, and discover the power of time travel.Ithaca Bound is the first book in the Ithaca time travel trilogy.Ithaca Time Travel TrilogyBook #1 - Ithaca BoundBook #2 - Ithaca LostBook #3 - Ithaca FoundThe Ithaca time travel trilogy is a spinoff series from the Old Curiosity Shop time travel mystery series, featuring many of the same characters.Old Curiosity Shop Time Travel TrilogyBook #1 - Fifteen PostcardsBook #2 - The Last LetterBook #3 - Telegram Home

U.S. Navy AviationIn TOPGUN Lessons From The Sky, we seek to understand how the aviation industry can learn from the mistakes made by naval aviators and crew, so that we can all become safer pilots.

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.