Principles of Flight: Aircraft General Knowledge Flight Performance and Planning (Private Pilots Licence Course): v. 4

A full explanatory text book ..Extremely good value for any pilot, or for anyone just interested in aviation.

good information and good service thank you

Good book to learn all your basics. It gave me a great depth of basic information for PPL training.

Excellent book. Sometimes going a bit far (why explain the wankel engine as it never made it in aviation?) but very complete.

I like this book. Nicely laid out, and a little laid back too!

AN INTERESTING BOOK FOR ALSO NON PILOTS AS ME

I like this book very much. Although there is a lot of material in it, structure is consistent and clear. At the end of each chapter there is a number of questions for self-control. Text is detailed and is written in solid, precise manner which makes this book a potentially good long-term source for reference.This book is about technics, and to go through and understand bits of it will require quite some attention and concentration even if you are an engineer or technical person, so be prepared.The only thing I disliked about this book (and the whole series) is very small font size.

So far I found the AFE series quite good, however in this book there appears to be confusing statements on pages PF28 to page PF31. On page 25 it seems to have the correct analysis of the three planes of movement, ie Pitch around the lateral axis, roll around the longitudinal axis and yaw around the vertical axis. However on the very next page I was completely thrown when it went into the detailed description of pitch by saying "stability in pitch is known as the "longitudinal stability". It then goes on in the next few pages PF31 describing roll as "lateral stability" apparently contrary to what was said on page PF27. As a student this was very confusing to say the least , as far as I can tell (through further investigation), Page PF 27 is correct and the following pages PF28-Pf31 appear contradictory. I think what is being said is Pitch rotates AROUND the lateral axis and Pitch stability occurs ALONG the Longitudinal axis, likewise Roll rotates around the Longitudinal axis and roll stability occurs ALONG the Lateral axis. I think? This could have been explained better for students like me trying to get to grips with the science for the PPL. Other than that I think they are a good series.