Clear Left, I'll Have the Chicken: An Airline Captain Looks at Life [Paperback]

Kevin Garrison (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 15, 2006

If you’ve ever piloted an aircraft, wanted to pilot an aircraft, or seen an aircraft, this book is a must read.

Learn how to be a cool pilot. Establish your piloting philosophy. Set your ears on fire and flood the forward lav. These techniques and more are all here.

Let’s face it. If you don’t buy this book the bad guys win and flying will never be the same.

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About the Author

Kevin Garrison, semi-professional smart ass, has flown professionally for thirty two years in everything from Champs to 777s. He lives on a small farm and believes that professional wrestling is real and the rest of the world is bogus.

Product Details

• Paperback: 92 pages
• Publisher: ASJA Press (November 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595422586
• ISBN-13: 978-0595422586
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,476,865 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kevin Garrison's professional writing career spans twenty years producing over 850 published articles, newspaper and Web site columns, and numerous books.

Kevin's articles have appeared in Air & Space Smithsonian, Plane & Pilot, Upside, Salon.com, Flyer newspapers, Creativity, Writer's Digest, Biztraveler, Mercator's World, AOPA Pilot, Airline Pilot, US Aviator, IFR Magazine, Private Pilot, Ace magazine, Southern Aviator Equus, Horseplay, Salon.com, TheLexington Herald Leader, and numerous others.

His books include: The CEO of the Cockpit; a more serious instructional book,
Flying Through Congested Airspace, in its second printing; Monday Sucks, a show of Kevin's humorist side; and, So, You're Dead... A Novice's Guide to Non-Being completes Kevin's look at the human condition. Kevin's latest book, The Complete Illustrated History of the United States Air Force, will be out soon from Barnes & Noble Books.

He is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and holds an
American Studies degree from Florida State University

Kevin recently retired as a 767 Delta Airlines captain with over 20,000 flight hours.
While at Delta, Kevin worked with senior management producing products for Delta Airlines Flight Operations Division.

His flying background has included flying everything from banner towers to candidates for Governor. General aviation has seen Kevin as a line boy, shop assistant,office manager, and aircraft salesperson. He's hauled dead bodies, flown forest fire missions, carried sky-divers, surveyed turtles, and flown air show routines.

Kevin's monthly column on AVweb.com, The CEO of the Cockpit, is delivered to
130,000 subscribers. He is a frequent lecturer for the AOPA Air Safety Foundation.

Kevin lives with his wife Maggie on a small horse farm in Lexington, Kentucky where they have raised two kids, four dogs, ten horses, seven cats, two geese, and an assortment of rabbits, lizards and fish. Kevin firmly believes that professional wrestling is real and
the rest of the world is bogus.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A witty little book, April 28, 2007

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Scott T (Seattle, Washington) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Clear Left, I'll Have the Chicken: An Airline Captain Looks at Life (Paperback)

I flew with Kevin Garrison over his 27 year airline career. He is one of the most creative people I know and I would recommend this book to anyone. The humor and pilot references in this book should appeal to the 20,000 hour veteran as well as the student pilot and the general public. For instruction on how to be an airline pilot buy a textbook. For an entertaining, lighthearted and even enlightening read, buy this book. My only complaint is that the book left me wanting more. I hope his next book comes out soon.

6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not What I Expected, April 24, 2007

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Greg "Greg" (Georgia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Clear Left, I'll Have the Chicken: An Airline Captain Looks at Life (Paperback)

I am sure Captain Garrison is an intelligent man and that he has many interesting opinions about life, especiallly what a perfect flight school would look like and what makes an airline captain cool - but that is not what I expected to read in his book. If you are looking for real life experiences of an airline captain - that tells you all the joys and sorrows, all the ins and outs of the job - amusing anecdotes of the life of the pilot, then you will be disapointed. He tells his many opinions about many things and his experience as a lineman smelling jet fuel and oil and even a whole bizarre chapter on how he dreams death will be, but does not give details about his day to day life piloting an airliner.
I was very dissapointed and I would not recommend this book to anyone.