The Killing Zone (How and Why Pilots Die)
The highest number of accidents occurs among pilots flying with between 40 and 250 hours. Pilots have passed the test, but have yet to gain the practical and critical decision making skills demanded by real flight. As a result pilots are making the same fatal mistakes over and over again. The Killing Zone presents the predictable statistics of how many pilots in the zone will die within a year and what they will be doing when death occurs. Chapters outline the top 8 killers individually and map strategies for avoiding, diverting, correcting, and managing the dangers. BACK COVER You can fly through the zone. Or you can die in it. The Killing Zone How and Why Pilots Die Most pilots earn their private certificate with 40 to 70 flight hours. Then they leave their instructors behind and enter the killing zone. Grimly embracing the period from 50 to 350 flight hours--a vital time for new pilots to build practical and decision-making skills--this deadly zone lays in wait for those who err, killing more pilots than all other periods put together. You don't have to be one of them. Aviation safety specialist Paul Craig--discoverer of the killing zone--shows you the fatal errors that inexperienced pilots make time after time and gives you tactics to avoid them. Based on the first in-depth, scientific study of pilot behavior and general aviation flying accidents in more than 20 years,
The Killing Zone: Identifies the time frame in which you are most likely to die Alerts you to the 12 mistakes most likely to kill you outlines preventive strategies for flying through the zone alive provides guidelines for avoiding, evading, diverting, correcting, and managing dangers Includes a "Pilot Personality Self-Assessment Exercise" for an individualized survival strategy. Survive the dangers that lurk in the killing zone. CONTENTS The Zone The Dangers The Number One Killer: VFR into IFR The Number Two Killer: Maneuvering Flight The Number Three Killer: Takeoff and Climb The Number Four Killer: Approach and Landing Mid-Air Collision Fuel Management Instrument Flight
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