Expert authors demonstrate the topic using pilot reports drawn from an FAA/NASA sponsored database. A post-mortem of real-life, real-pilot accidents is conducted to explain what went wrong and why. An action agenda is drawn of preventive techniques pilots can effect to avoid the same risks. Each book opens with a Foreword/Preface by series editor Tony Kern that links the individual topic to the bigger picture. The author provides an intro to the specific issue and follows on with chapters containing case studies chosen to illustrate the variables within the area, therein accomplishing greatest breadth possible

Author Biography

Larry Reithmaier is a retired mechanical engineer who, while at Rockwell International, helped design and develop the F2H, F3, F86H, F100, F101, and F4 jet fighters, the B-1B bomber, and Apollo and Skylab spacecrafts. The author of several technical books on aviation, he also wrote the Standard Aircraft Handbook for Mechanics and Technicians, Sixth Edition; the Aviation and Space Dictionary; Mach I and Beyond; Private Pilot's Guide; and Aircraft Repair Manual.