Flying Protected

di Matthew Dowell (Autore)

Matthew Dowell, 2026

Every approach you fly was designed by somebody working to criteria you have almost certainly never read. Those criteria are not secret. Doc 8168 and Order 8260.3 are public documents, available to anyone who wants them. But they were written by procedure designers for procedure designers, and reading them for operational insight is like learning to drive from an engine tolerance manual. The result is that a great many capable professionals operate every day inside protection they could not describe if asked — how wide it is, what it assumed about them, and what happens the moment they step outside it. Flying Protected is that explanation. Not the arithmetic a designer uses, but the part that reaches the flight deck. Inside: What a protected area actually is, how far it reaches, and why it narrows Where your minima come from — and which of the four possible numbers is really yours RNP in plain language: what the alerting is watching, what the coding does, and what each line of minima gives you Why a circling area is smaller than most pilots think, and what you lose at its edge Cold temperature, remote altimeter settings, and when the correction is actually yours to make The gap between a published climb gradient and what your aeroplane will deliver on one engine Reading a plate for what the designer could not do: steep finals, displaced thresholds, close-in obstacles PANS-OPS and TERPS side by side, with the differences that bite Five accidents that show exactly where the protection ran out Written by an active training captain and type rating examiner, for pilots at every stage — from a first instrument rating to a command on a wide-body. From the author of Flying Competent.

• Autore: Matthew Dowell
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Matthew Dowell
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237269741