Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and ReflectionsA New York Times bestseller For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even fearful experience. Patrick Smith, airline pilot and author of the web's popular Ask the Pilot feature, separates the fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know... •How planes fly, and a revealing look at the men and women who fly them Cockpit Confidential covers not only the nuts and bolts of flying, but also the grand theater of air travel, from airport architecture to inflight service to the excitement of travel abroad. It's a thoughtful, funny, at times deeply personal look into the strange and misunderstood world of commercial flying. It's the ideal book for frequent flyers, nervous passengers, and global travelers. Refreshed and vastly expanded from the original Ask the Pilot, with approximately 75 percent new material. |
Contents
Things about Wings and Why Knots | 1 |
Turbulence Windshear Weather and Worry | 23 |
Takeoffs Landings and the Mysterious Between | 59 |
The Awe and Odd of a Life Aloft | 91 |
Life in the Cabin | 141 |
Disasters Mishaps and Fatuous Flights of Fancy | 179 |
Other editions - View all
Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel ... Patrick Smith Limited preview - 2018 |
Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel ... Patrick Smith Limited preview - 2013 |
Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know about Air Travel ... Patrick Smith No preview available - 2018 |