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Ground Studies for Pilots:
Flight Planning Sixth edition by PJ Swatton
Part of a series of training manuals for students taking commercial pilot and
air transport pilot licence examinations, this covers all aspects relating to
plotting and flight planning ‑ form of the earth, navigational planning
techniques and the principles and practice of flight planning. It has been
completely revised to take account of the recent Joint Aviation Authorities of
Europe syllabus for flight crew licensing.
up‑to‑date with the latest Joint Aviation Requirements for Flight Crew
Licensing
part of a highly regarded, well established series for pilots
improved layout for ease of learning
features model exam questions and answers
a new edition of Underdown: Ground Studies for Pilots Vol. 2
(ISBN 0‑632‑03602‑8)
Contents
Navigation revision; Meteorology revision; VFR flight planning; IFR flight
planning; General fuel requirements; SEP aeroplane fuel planning; MEP aeroplane
fuel planning; MR3T aeroplane fuel planning; The in‑flight fuel requirements;
The computer & ICAO ATC flight plans; Extended range twin operations; Answers to
sample questions
264 pages, illustrated hardback, £28.50, ISBN 0‑632‑05939‑7
This is the 6th Edition of a book designed to get pilots through the JAR
Syllabus and subsequent examination. It Is one of a series the other titles
being Radio Aids, Navigation, Flight Instruments Meteorology, Flight Instruments
and Automatic Flight Control Systems. As such it is updated from the previous
CAA Examination requirements, however like all such books it is designed to
cram one through the examination rather than teach and appreciate what is
properly needed for flight. 1 found the use of decimal parts of an hour rather
than minutes for sectors of some of the flight plans particularly distracting.
There are copious quantities of "specimen questions" together with the answers.
The planning process is concentrated on multi‑engined piston and medium range
jet aircraft consistent with the aims of the book ‑ to get an aspiring airline
pilot through the CAA/JAR Examination. The space devoted to computerised flight
planning is small and there are no examples of how to do gross error checks on
such plans.
Over reliance is placed on Jeppesen gmbh Documents as examples. So much so that
one wonders if it is not a Jeppesen handout. The book would be considerably
enhanced if the illustrations were done in colour rather than black and white
which tends to confuse the aspiring aviator.
Overall it fills a niche in the training of prospective pilots.
RWB
JAN03
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