Flying in Congested Air Space: A Private Pilot's Guide (Tab Practical Flying Series) [Hardcover]

Kevin Garrison (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 212 pages
• Publisher: Tab Books; 1st edition (October 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0830694463
• ISBN-13: 978-0830694464
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,145,610 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.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not Really a Private Pilot's Practical Guide, January 13, 2012

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This review is from: Flying in Congested Airspace: A Private Pilot's Guide (Tab Practical Flying Series) (Paperback)

While it was a good try Mr. Garrison seems to have forgotten that private pilots generally do not fly jets. This book was published before the introduction of GPS and so does not include any information on its practical use in the cockpit. Much of what the author has written could have been gleaned from other publications. When he talks about one of his most helpful suggestions, the autopilot, he failed to grasp that at that time, the majority of small airplanes did not have such installed. Today's much more expensive aircraft all seem to come from the factory with an autopilot so the advise given then would be more approriate now. The majority of the complex airspace focus is around the Atlanta Terminal Control Area (now Class B) which is okay. However, at the time of publication, Hartsfield wasn't even in the top twenty busiest airports in the country and there were only a couple towered airports around it. Today Hartsfield is one of the busiest and there are a few more towers at airports surrounding it. At the time of publication of the 100 plus paved public-use airports in Southern California, more than 50 had operating air traffic control towers and it was one of the most complex pieces (still is) of airspace in the country. It also had the most traffic, up to 500 airborne targets during one radar sweep of the Los Angeles basin which also contained four of the top ten busiest airports in the country at that time. The San Francisco Bay area had two more of the top ten busiest. When the author gave example airports, he talked about Los Angeles International and San Francisco International, airports few private pilots need nor want to fly into. And his recommended plan of arrival used Profile Descent Procedures which were used (the have been integrated with Standard Terminal Arrival Routes today) to allow airliners to fly a continuous descent to the arrival airport from their enroute Flight Levels above 18,000 feet. Few small planes fly that high. Overall, the book needed a better focus or at the very least, a change in subtitle.