[Flightgear-devel] Excellent resource - See How It Flies

[Mally <ma...@tk...>]

I've just discovered an excellent resource - See How It Flies -- "a new spin
on the perceptions, procedures, and principles of flight". This is an online
book, with 20 chapters, 140,000 words, and over 280 color illustrations.

I can't believe how comprehensive this is, nor how well written and
illustrated.  As well as practical training, it includes lots of theory
(much of which I've never seen before), and pearls of wisdom born of
practical experience such as "In a Cessna, if you pull the throttle all the
way out and then bend it down, it's stuck at idle and you can't fix it
without tools"  (he discovered this when a student he was with did it on 1/2
mile final, incapacitating the engine!).

If anyone is putting anything into a FAQ about the theory or practice of
flying, then this would be a good candidate.

Mally