» Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge: FAA-H-8083-25, December 2003 (FAA Handbooks series)

Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge: FAA-H-8083-25, December 2003 (FAA Handbooks series) Reviews

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Summary: Standard GA training book
Comment: This book has good illustrations of basic aeronautical concepts. Many companies make big bucks making new versions of this. This book is government issue, so the information is public domain. IE, printing costs are less due to no licensing fees.

I would say that, compared to the Jeppesen Guided Discovery book, or many of the other similar ones, this book is probably about 85% of ease of absorption, but about 15% of the price.

This book can be downloaded from the FAA in PDF. I highly recommend both the PDF and the print copies, but the PDF edition is free.

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Summary: Standard Reference by the FAA- Excellent for New Pilot Study
Comment: There are many reference books for Pilots. This is carefully designed by the Federal Aviation Agency as a test preparation reference. It is good, authoritative and has been upgraded relatively recently.

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Summary: Good book but there is better
Comment: This is the "official" FAA text on the subject.
However, it took some determination to get all the way through.
I much preferred Rod Machado's book. His humor can be a bit corny but you'll get through the book and understand the material much better.

Rod Machado's Private Pilot Handbook: The Ultimate Private Pilot Book

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Summary: Everything I was looking for
Comment: I needed the PHAK for my aviation class @ SIU and the bookstores here were out. How they were out of PHAKS when there's only 70 students I don't know. I ordered it off of amazon and it was exactly what I was looking for.

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Summary: A great digest of aviation basics
Comment: This book is definitely the best introductory book to the main aviation concepts I ever read.
Each issue - from flight static and dynamics to FCS, propulsion, avionics and navigation, weather theory and influence, flight and ground operations - is considered in this book with a technical, but easily understandable, approach. The book is, as a matter of fact, an introduction and, therefore, is not suggested to experienced readers. It's, in any case, a five-star introduction.

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