Piloting with Confidence

Piloting with Confidence-Charts, Checklists, Systems & Cockpit Tips describes examples of charts and checklists that every careful pilot should be using during all phases of flight. This book emphasizes the importance of creating your own charts and checklists, which particularly suit your individual needs. Making use of your computer and personal digital assistant (PDA) is emphasized throughout the book. The book contains a preface and seven chapters with over 140 pages of information of importance to every pilot. Checklists and charts included are: Your Personal Written Checklist, Your Personal Progress of Flight Chart,RPM or MP Settings and Associated Descent Rates, V-Speeds and Performance Specifications, and Load shedding in the event of Alternator Failure.

James Spudich is a private pilot of thirty years, with an instrument rating and extensive experience in many single-engine land airplanes. His favorite is a Piper Comanche 260C, which he co-owned for many years with two friends at Stanford University. He flies out of Palo Alto Airport. A Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford University, he has been an educator for more than thirty years. He served as Chairman of two Departments at Stanford and was co-founder and first Director of a bold interdisciplinary Stanford program known as BioX. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has published more than two hundred scientific papers, edited a variety of books, and trained more than fifty students in basic research.