Principles of Flight for Pilots

The field of aerospace is wide ranging and covers a variety of products, disciplines and domains, not merely in engineering but in many supporting activities. These combine to enable the aerospace industry to produce exciting and technologically challenging products. A wealth of knowledge is contained by practitioners and professionals in the industry in the aerospace fields that is of benefit to other practitioners in the industry, and to those entering the industry from University or other fields.

The Aerospace Series aims to be a practical and topical series of books aimed at engineering professionals, operators and users and allied professions such as commercial and legal executives in the aerospace industry. The range of topics spans design and development, manufacture, operation and support of the aircraft as well as infrastructure operations, and developments in research and technology. The intention is to provide a source of relevant information that will be of interest and benefit to all those people working in aerospace.

In this book, Principles of Flight for Pilots, the author takes this a step further by introducing principles of flight in a comprehensive and easy to use compendium of knowledge complemented by self-assessment exercises. The book is packed with information from basic aerodynamics and stability through aerodynamic principles for level flight, manoeuvre and high speed flight. Even though this book is aimed squarely at pilots wishing to study for the EASA ATPL and CPL examinations, it should also be considered as essential reading for students wishing to enter the field of aero engineering and for practitioners in systems engineering, design, aerodynamics and testing.