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Flight Lessons 3: Experience: How Eddie Learned to Understand the Lessons of Experience by [James A Albright, Chris Manno, Christopher L Parker]

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by James A Albright (Author), Chris Manno (Illustrator), Christopher L Parker (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition

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This is volume three of a five volume collection that chronicles the author's journey from novice pilot to professional pilot, while adding technical lessons learned along the way. The author has a following through his website, www.code7700.com, which receives nearly 2 million hits every month. The website is used by airline, business, corporate, and military pilots for references to pilot procedures and techniques. The website also receives frequent visits from aviation industry, government offices, and colleges throughout the world. One of the most requested parts of the website are for more and more of the lessons, told in story form. The website author's web name is "Eddie," and many of the stories are told in an easy to read style, in Eddie's first person voice.

While this book can stand alone, it takes up after volume two. After a year at an Air Force leadership school Eddie returns to the cockpit at the 89th Military Airlift Wing to fly brand new Gulfstream IIIs. Eddie fully embraces a new philosophy of flight, based on knowing everything you can and maintaining a very high level of proficiency. Along the way he discovers the dangers of thinking you know it all by falling for it, hook, line, and sinker. But he soon discovers this way of thinking doesn't agree with his ideas of humility and the need to always learn. In the end he becomes a better pilot (stick and rudder and instrument flying) and a better aviator (judgment). Each chapter relates a series of flight experiences and is followed by a lesson that either reinforces the experiences or provides a counter-point to those experiences.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01M2ZIYU1
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Code7700 LLC; 1st edition (November 1, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 1, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 7488 KB
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Best Sellers Rank: #405,724 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #79 in Aviation Piloting & Flight Instruction
- #216 in Military Aviation History (Kindle Store)
- #357 in Piloting & Flight Instruction

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James Albright is an average pilot with average stick and rudder skills, but has an above average desire to learn and instruct. He spent twenty years in the United States Air Force as an aircraft commander, instructor pilot, evaluator pilot, and squadron commander. After retiring as a lieutenant colonel, he went on to fly for several private and commercial operators as an international captain, check airman, and chief pilot. His logbook includes the T-37B, T-38A, KC-135A, Boeing 707, Boeing 747, Challenger 604, and the Gulfstream III, IV, V, 450, and GVII. He is currently the chief pilot for a Gulfstream operator based in Massachusetts.

His website, www.code7700.com attracts three million hits each month and well over a thousand viewers each day. His articles have appeared in several magazines, most notably Business & Commercial Aviation.

He speaks on a broad range of aviation safety topics and his venues have included the Air Charter Safety Foundation, the Bombardier Safety Stand Down, and several airport and aircraft users group.

While he claims to be devoid of ego, that can hardly be true of someone willing to write a five volume set of flight lessons based on his own experiences.

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David C. Fedors

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 9, 2016

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Flight Lessons 1 and 2 consisted of events in the author's aviation life that resulted in lessons learned, followed by a technical analysis explanation -- stuff like how to fly a visual pattern, how to compute a descent gradient, and details of the 60:1 rule . If you are a professional pilot, you will have experienced very similar lessons in your career, albeit not as well documented or analyzed.

This third volume is more personal and specific, and consists of the author's experience while a member of the 89th, a well known and highly regarded US Air Force wing responsible for VIP transport, most famously for the US President. The author joins the 89th in the early 1990s, a period of great change in the USAF. The 89th's motto is "Experto Crede," latin for "Trust in the expert" and Mr. Albright uses this saying as a departure point to show how the unit developed both good and bad characteristics. Albright's observations lead to some fairly profound insights on culture which apply to any flying organization. As these insights are philosophical and abstract, by basing them on concrete examples, they are made clear. If a publicly prominent and storied unit like the 89th act as though their motto was "Navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse," well then these bad organization traits can can occur in any organization. Probably the strongest chapters are "Deviant," which concludes on procedural intentional non-compliance, and "Expertise," which ends with a saying "No" to your employer, and ought to be required reading for any contract pilot.

In the chapter "Ivan," based on a C-20 [GIII] trip into the still-reeling-from-the-breakup Russia, there is discussion of missile avoidance manuevers for transport aircraft. The material on avoiding having a missile fired on you in the first place is spot on, but I would be very cautious about assuming any ability to out maneuver missiles in flight based on reading the chapter.

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czep

A fascinating glimpse of what it means to be a pilot

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 3, 2017

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When I first discovered James Albright, aka "Eddie Haskell's" website, Code 7700, I was captivated and read every page. I still eagerly visit his website every month looking for new material and reviewing the wealth of information, stories, accident case studies, and other valuable aviation knowledge. I've read all of his books cover to cover, they are truly riveting. I'm just a simulator pilot who will never take the controls of a real airplane, but reading his books let you feel what it's like to be one of the best pilots in the world.

Albright is a natural writer and he draws from a seemingly endless source of personal experience. He weaves thrilling anecdotes with practical lessons that provide a rich perspective on the aviation world. If you have any interest in flight at all, you'll find his writing highly engaging and will make you grateful there are pilots in the world like Albright.

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Rebecca Foster

My son loves these books

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 30, 2021

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Reads them repeatedly

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 23, 2021

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Recommended book for any pilot, especially an experienced one.
Eddie does a very good job of teaching through his personal experiences by putting them into short stories.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 27, 2018

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As a pilot, you can (and should) study the theories on human factors. But unless you’ve encountered them firsthand, some are intangible, abstract and foreign. You need practical examples, like those presented in James Albright’s writing, to drive everything home. Why do some pilots read accident reports, shaking their heads at how flight crews could do something so stupid, and then take to the airways and play with the same fire themselves?! Having now read Flight Lessons 3 and 4, I highly recommend Mr. Albright’s offerings for possible answers to this and other questions.

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Ivan Luciani - An Aviator's Journey

Flight Lessons 3: a journey of discovery, entertainment and knowledge

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 6, 2016

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As both – an avid reader and a passionate aviator – my reading material consists primarily of novels written by remarkable authors and technical manuals written by very knowledgeable individuals. The former take me on a journey of discovery and entertainment. The latter allow me to feed my ever-present desire and need for knowledge. James Albright is not only a remarkable author but also a very knowledgeable individual. Case in point is Flight Lessons 3: Experience. This candid and well written book took me on a journey of discovery, entertainment and knowledge. James, thank you for sharing the knowledge and wisdom you have gained during your remarkable journey as an aviator.

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Justin Kunz

If you enjoy flying, you'll love these!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 16, 2017

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If you are constant asker of "why?" in regards complex subjects in aviation, you'll love these books. The author does a fantastic job of storytelling while sneaking in flying wisdom which he has gathered over a decorated career. Flight Lessons 1, 2 and 3 make a perfect addition to any pilots collection.

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If you are a pilot who cares about the nerdy stuff you will enjoy this book series.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 11, 2019

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Liked everything about it. Almost like an autobiography.

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