Severe Weather Flying [Paperback]

Dennis Newton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1991

Describes how to anticipate hazardous weather conditions, avoid them in flight, and get out of them when encountered.

Among the topics covered in clear detail are:

The Ups and Downs of Air: showing that fronts, low pressure areas, mountains and jet streams really do only one thing - lift air.

Stability: Explaining the relationship of atmospheric stability to observed weather.

Air-Mass Thunderstorms: Describes what they are, how to avoid them and how (if you must) to fly through them.

Steady-State Thunderstorms: Presents all you need to know about these fearsome tornado-spawning thunderstorms.

Lightning: The dangers to airplanes, and which fuels and systems are most valuable (and vulnerable).

Icing: The hows and whys of structural icing, with icing avoidance and other aspects of this flight-crippling condition.

Nocturnal Thunderstorms: Takes the mystery our of the cause and effect of these beautiful killers.

Downburst: Discusses the downdraft-shear phenomena which caused the 1975 Eastern airlines crash at JFK.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Dennis Newton is a Federal Aviation Administration–designated engineering representative and flight-test pilot for small and transport airplanes. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 190 pages
• Publisher: Aviation Supplies & Academics; 2nd edition (April 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560270721
• ISBN-13: 978-1560270720
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,880,218 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Written the way all technical books for pilots should be., January 12, 1999

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[e-mail] (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Severe Weather Flying (AOPA/McGraw-Hill series in general aviation) (Hardcover)

Dennis Newton had a goal of writing a book that pilots could understand and use. With over 10 years of line flying under my belt since reading (and re-reading) his book I believe it is the definitive book on the subject of thunderstorm and windshear avoidance for professional pilots. Every professional pilot needs this one in his library.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unreserved praise!, March 13, 2002

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randy e. reynolds (Wichita, KS United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Severe Weather Flying (Paperback)

For all pilots! I purchased this book over ten years ago and I try to reread it each spring. This book condenses need to know information into useable "bites," and makes weather interesting and understandable. You will learn things about temperature dew point relationships and many other aspects of weather and weather flying that you may never hear any other place. If you are looking for a book that will better prepare you for the dynamics of weather flying, this is one of the very best.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars severe weather flying, January 25, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Severe Weather Flying (Paperback)

This is a must read book for any pilot who does serious weather flying. Dennis takes the mumbo jumbo and puts it in terms that are very easy to understand. With thirty two years of flying under my belt, this is the only book that makes practical sense of very technical issues.