Rod Machado's Plane Talk: The Mental Art of Flying an Airplane

by Rod Machado, Sam Lyons (Illustrator)

Welcome to a collection of Rod Machado's most popular aviation articles and stories from the last 15 years. Rod Machado's Plane Talk contains nearly 100 flights of fun and knowledge that will stimulate your aviation brain and tickle your funny bone. In addition to the educational topics listed below, you'll read about higher learning, the value of aviation history, aviation literature, aviation art and how an artist's perspective can help you better understand weather. You'll also find more than a few articles written just to make you laugh. In this book you'll discover... ○ How to Assess and Manage Aviation Risks ○ Several Techniques for Making Better Cockpit Decisions ○ New Ways to Help You Cope With Temptation ○ How to Use Your Brain for a Change ○ The Truth About Flying, Anxiety and Fear ○ How to Handle First Time Flyers and Anxious Passengers ○ Favorite Skills Used By Good Pilots

Genres: Aviation

446 pages, Paperback

First published July 10, 2009

Reviews

[Panagiotis Papadopoulos · Rating 5 out of 5]

A masterpiece-read it a long time ago but it is a book I am so glad that it was written and given to us that flying matters as a more wide principle.Author explores and exposes with a magnificent way the human nature and the human mind and what is their effect on decisions and challenges that flying an aeroplane imposes up there when you are only by yourself. However it does not stop there as is brings up many questions such as what is honor and how important it is in one’s life. In any way it is a book of pure philosophy from Plato and Heidegger to samurai way of thinking.Excellent.

[Paul Mclennan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another really great down to earth book by Rod Machado.