Customer Reviews

Instrument Flying Handbook

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How well this book is written was a pleasant surprise. I've found it easy to read, and pretty helpful with the basics of instrument flying.

I've been using this book as a supplement with the Ralph Butcher Instrument Pilot Flight Training Manual and the Jeppesen instrument book. To be honest, this FAA book would stand on it's own as a good theory book and looks to have most of the info necessary to pass the written.

Combined with the price, it's an excellent edition to your flight library.

Safe flying!

Tom

First off... this is an essential book. Do note that it can be downloaded for free from the FAA:

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...but many times it's better to have the print version. There are some vendors selling illegal CD versions of this on Amazon when you purchased that are not paperback as listed. Do NOT accept this if they send you a CD. Demand the print, book version if you purchase it - and do not tolerate the scams.

A nice primer to instrument flying. Combine this with the ASA Instrument Rating Test Prep book and you pretty much have a self-contained instrument ground school for around $30.

One of the best I ever read on this subject.

Items clearly explained.

Easy reading.

Reasonable priced.

I have been a CFII for 20+ years, and this is the book I recommend to my students? Why? Because it was updated in 2007/2008 and is the only IFR book I've seen which fully covers both glass cockpit (G1000 primarily) and analog instrumentation. In addition, it fully covers GPS operations. The ASA, Machado, Jeppesen manuals either don't mention glass and GPS or don't cover them thoroughly. And this one is FAR less expensive!

A necessary companion to this book which is the FAA Instrument Procedures Handbook.

This is the best book I know of help you begin to understand instrument flying. That said, transitioning to instruments is a big challenge, and I do not know of any single book that will explain instrument flying in an easy to grasp and efficient manner. This is as good as I found, and it is inexpensive. I bought the Jep book too, and I never got through it. It just wastes a lot of paper on stuff you already know (I hope).

The distinction between this book and the Instrument Procedures Handbook is that this book is more for students learning to fly instruments. The Instrument Procedures Handboook is a more detailed look into the instrument flying system. When you begin to actually fly in the system and you want to understand why you get bizarre clearances or why STARS or SIDS are the way they are, this is a book to help you understand why. It helps you file flight plans that are likely to be cleared as filed and less likely to be amended in flight. This in turn reduces your stress.

Covers all IFR basics in an excellent way. Very helpful for the preparation for passing the IFR written test.

The FAA put together a good book for study and review of IFR material. A true one-stop shop for info.

Book is a reprint of the FAA version. The publisher should clear up some of the images. They are hard to read. Printed in China.

It was everything I expected but the quality of some of the images is pretty bad. I don't know if It is only me or if anyone had the same problem.