Flying the Big Jets: All You Wanted to Know about the Jumbos But Couldn't Find a Pilot to Ask [Hardcover]

Stanley Stewart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1996

This book presents fascinating facts about what it takes to fly a big jet. How does a large aircraft fly? How long is the take-off run at maximum weight? How much fuel is carried on a transatlantic flight? The answers to these and thousands of other questions are given with sufficient enough detail to satisfy even the most inquisitive reader. Chapter by chapter, readers are taken from the basics of big jets through to the actual flight of a Boeing 777 from London to Boston. Readers will examine the weather forecast with the pilots, monitor the take-off from the flight deck, listen to the radio reports along the way, view the mid-Atlantic weather from above the clouds, witness the preparations for descent, and experience the excitement of landing in Boston. "Flying the Big Jets" is a comprehensive book that reveals the every-day working environment of the modern long-haul airline pilot.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Editorial Reviews

Book Description

Chapter by chapter the reader is taken gently from the basics of the big jets to the sophistication of the 'glass cockpit' in preparation for the pilot's seat on a Boeing 777 flight from London to Boston.  Examine the weather forecast with the pilots, monitor the take-off from the flight deck, listen to the radio reports along the way, view the mid-Atlantic weather from above the clouds, witness the preparations for descent and experience the excitement of landing in Boston.  Flying the Big Jets is a comprehensive book that reveals as never before the every-day working environment of the modern long-haul airline pilot.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Swan Hill Press; 3 edition (December 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1853102903
• ISBN-13: 978-1853102905
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,404,482 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best so far..., May 29, 2001

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Carl Chen (Singapore Singapore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flying the Big Jets: All You Wanted to Know about the Jumbos But Couldn't Find a Pilot to Ask (Hardcover)

Captain Stewart first prepares the reader with competent knowledge of the aircraft and navigation before letting the person take a peek at the entire flight from beginning till end from London to New York.

I find the language used and the way the book is written in to be very serious, as if the Capt. takes your interest in what he does seriously. Of course, this book omits all the boo boos and emergencies that the writer experienced in his career, but it is a great book to learn by heart if you are an airliner enthusiast.

There is something for the experts as well as amateaurs. A must read!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating introduction on how to fly commercial airliners., September 27, 1997

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Paladin "And that's the truth" (Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flying the Big Jets: All You Wanted to Know about the Jumbos But Couldn't Find a Pilot to Ask (Hardcover)

This book is designed for two groups of people: pilots who desire to someday fly the 'big ones', and non-pilots who desire to someday fly the 'big ones'. The author provides an introduction to each of the major systems of a large commercial aircraft, and explains how flying large jet airliners is different from flying smaller piston or turbine powered airplanes. The author has taken a potentially very difficult subject and made it fairly easy for the novice pilot (or aspiring pilot) to understand. A very interesting book well worth reading, and a must have for all you 'wannabe' airline pilots. (This is a review of the first edition).

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating reading. I have a new appreciation for pilots., May 11, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Flying the Big Jets: All You Wanted to Know About the Jumbos but Couldn't Find a Pilot to Ask (Hardcover)

I throughly enjoyed this book. So many fascinating details about the
planes, flight procedures and complexity of navigation. As a bonus you get a
useful introduction to the physics of flying as well as the history of
navigation. My copy of the book already has two people signed up to
borrow it!