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Overview

Real-world operational knowledge for real-world application.

John Lowery's popular title Professional Pilot provides real-world application of knowledge based on the veteran aviator's vast experience. Ride alongside as he imparts insightful tips, stories, case histories, facts and myth-busting that will change how you operate as PIC.

Professional Pilot is about decision making. Far from your typical textbook on aerodynamics and systems, this book takes you right up front to learn from a master turbine pilot who’s been there. The author infuses 50 years of experience as a corporate pilot and pilot examiner into fluid discussions that probe the details all career aviators must understand. Pilots will achieve a new level of understanding about day-to-day, real-world flying and gain a full indoctrination into the topics that matter when flying heavy, high, and fast—among which include:
  • Take-off V-speeds and the real physics of takeoff performance
  • Handling runway contamination
  • Cruise speed and fuel control in turbine aircraft
  • High altitude flight dynamics
  • The dangers of high altitude physiology
  • Managing icing conditions and the inadequacy of the regs in making real-world decisions about those conditions
  • Surviving emergencies such as rapid decompression and in-flight fire
This third edition contains the latest cockpit and airport procedures as well as recent advancements in communications and navigation equipment. FITS (FAA/Industry Training Standards) are also now included, and information has been added to prepare pilots for today’s state-of-the-art “TAA” (technically-advanced aircraft) and VLJs (very-light jets).

John Lowery's Professional Pilot is filled with points to remember so pilots can take away operational rules-of-thumb and immediately apply them to their daily flying. This insider's look into the mind and cockpit of an accomplished aviator is an invaluable resource for pilots wanting to achieve the next level of aeronautical mastery.
   
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Specifications

  • Author: John Lowery
  • ISBN: 978-1-56027-709-5
  • Edition: Third Edition
  • Dimensions: 8-1/4" x 10-3/4
  • Page Count: 336 pages
  • Illustrations: Black and white
  • Includes: Index
  • Weight: 1.70 lbs
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Author Details

  • Author John Lowery first soloed at age 16 in a Piper J-3 Cub, at Auburn-Opelika Airport (AUO). After graduating from Auburn University, he spent the next 24 years in the United States Air Force flying a variety of high performance aircraft, including a brief break in service during which he flew for Western Airlines as a First Officer. Upon returning to the Air Force he subsequently lived and flew all over the world. After Air Force retirement, Lowery spent the following 24 years as a practicing flight instructor and FAA Designated Pilot Proficiency Examiner in a Sabreliner corporate jet, ultimately accumulating 13,500 flying hours. In addition, he was for some years a Designated Pilot Examiner in the Beechcraft King Air turbo-prop series and various light airplanes.
  • John holds an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate with type ratings in the Sabreliner, Learjet, Citation, King Air 300, Beechcraft 1900, DC-4 and DC-3, in addition to single- and multi-engine seaplanes. As a flight instructor he is rated for single- and multi-engine, and instrument flying. Concurrently, he earned a Master’s Degree in Aeronautical Science from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in Corporate Aviation Management and Aircraft Accident Investigation for ERAU’s night campuses at Mather AFB, McClellan AFB, and Travis AFB, California, as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Aeronautical Science.
  • Now retired in California, he remains active as an author of aviation books. His publications include Anatomy of a Spin, Professional Pilot, A Pilot’s Accident Review, and Life in the Wild Blue Yonder: jet fighter pilot stories from the cold war.

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