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

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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.

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.