Beyond The Checkride: What Your Flight Instructor Never Taught You - Softcover

Benefit from the Experience of Hundreds of Pilots. Howard Fried, legendary flight instructor, shares what every pilot - the experienced as well as the newly minted aviator - most needs to know about flying: the invaluable lessons learned by trial and error, recounted through real-life experiences of hundreds of pilots. Everyone knows that a successful checkride just earns you the "license to learn."To be a truly proficient aviator, there is much more to master, Fried covers it all: basics that are rarely taught; mastering maneuvers; surviving spins and stalls; pilot error - the human factor; advanced equipment; dangerous weather; the ATC system; and, a great deal more. Like an old-timer telling war stories in the hangar, Fried makes his points with vivid anecdotes collected from more than 50 years' cumulative experience as a pilot and flight instructor. Why not learn from other people's mistakes? Fried asks. It is much easier, and safer, than making them yourself. It could even save your life.

Howard Fried (Holly, MI ) is a veteran pilot with more than 40,000 hours of flight time. He is the author of the book Flight Test Tips and Tales, and is a regular columnist ("Eye of the Examiner") for Flying, the world's most widely read aviation magazine. He is a flight instructor and former FAA pilot examiner.