ASA Student Pilot's Flight Manual by Bill Kershner - ASA-FM-STU-11

Description

From First Flight to Pilot Certificate
This is a ground school textbook, maneuvers manual, and syllabus all rolled  into one, providing a step-by-step comprehensive course for student pilots  working towards a Private or Sport Pilot certificate. This authoritative volume  from the legendary flight instructor, William K. Kershner, edited by William C.  Kershner, presents a wealth of practical information while encouraging student  pilot decision making. The fundamentals of flying are clearly described in a  methodical yet informal manner that a student can easily absorb. Includes  detailed references to maneuvers and procedures, and is fully illustrated with  the author’s own drawings.
This manual covers all you need to know for your first flight, presolo, the  post-solo maneuvers, cross-country and night flying. First published in 1960 and  updated continuously since then, this 11th Edition ensures you will be prepared  for the classroom, tarmac, and the cockpit.
It is a gathering of material used in preflight and postflight briefings and in-flight instruction provided by one of the greatest flight instructors of our  time. It also includes a synopsis of what to expect for your FAA Knowledge Exam  and checkride. This book is not intended to only help you “get past” the exam  and checkride — it also has the essential information for use in the day-today  process of flying airplanes.
With over six decades of experience as pilot-in-command in more than 100  types and models of airplanes, Bill Kershner was FAA/ General Aviation Flight  Instructor of the Year in 1992, and named Elder Statesman of Aviation in 1997.  He was inducted into the Flight Instructor Hall of Fame in 1998. His son,  William C. Kershner, was soloed by his father, and holds Flight Instructor and  Airline Transport Pilot certificates. He has flown 22 types of airplanes in his  over 15,000 hours of flight time, ranging from Cessna 150s to Boeing 777s.
Bill Kershner left us to go West in 2007 but his legacy remains with  continued publishing of his books.  Bill founded Ace Aerobatic School in Sewanee, Tennessee in 1969. He was known as the "Spin Doctor" for his interest in spins, having logged more than 8,000 spins totaling some 35,000 turns; Kershner only counted spins of at least three turns and didn't record spins at all during his first 24 years of flying.
He was the national General Aviation Flight Instructor of the Year in 1992. At his Ace Aerobatic School, Kershner provided spin recovery and aerobatic training to hundreds of pilots, and he continued to teach ground school into late December 2006.
"He had a soft spot in his heart for student pilots and CFIs," as said by Bruce Landsberg of AOPA's Air Safety Foundation. "Being an engineer at heart, he would step up to the blackboard and start doing equations to explain some aerodynamic truth. When pressed to put it in English so that a dumb pilot (me) could understand it, he always could."
Softcover, 472 pages.