The best aviation library. What to read for a beginner and continuing pilot or my aviation regiment. To transcendental depths. History of high-altitude flights

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Good day to you!

As I promised in response to comments, I will describe what materials I used to prepare for the PPL, and I will also mention other useful and simply interesting books about aviation. I will say right away - read as much as possible, even if the material that fell into your hands is not yet applicable to your flights! Try to read at least one aviation book a month, and it doesn’t matter if it’s not a textbook, but a pilot’s memoirs, and don’t forget about contemporaries’ blogs, such as denokan , tsiganash and others - they have many interesting and instructive records.

I'll start with a general view of my modest collection, which I have been slowly collecting for the last seven years. I bought mainly on Amazon and Ozone, and also received as a gift from friends. There are several encyclopedias, and the multi-volume encyclopedia of aviation from Deagostini was not included in the frame.

It's mostly tutorials...

And here there are more memoirs and films on aviation topics (not all :)). Particularly interesting are the two books "The Air Cossack of Verdun" and "Rivals of the Eagles" - these are exciting historical essays about our first pilots, their interesting but difficult fate. I also recommend Charles Lindbergh's memoirs of his flight across the Atlantic, the film also turned out to be interesting.

Everything is mixed up on this long shelf, but, of course, the memoirs of foreign and Soviet pilots predominate.

But let's get back to learning - my very first book and the main one during the preparation - Pilot's handbook of aeronautical knowledge. You can say the official American textbook. Next to it is an analogue from Rod Machado - the material is the same, but it is presented more lively, with humor. These books have practically all the theory that is needed to pass the computer theory test, but the oral exam may require additional material, sometimes tied to the examiners' favorite topics.

A mandatory element of remote exam preparation is one or another (I chose Sporty's, but there are others) video course with the possibility of passing trial theoretical exams. And most importantly, after several successful trial exams, an official document is issued confirming the fact of passing theoretical training. This document is required by the school for admission to the official computer exam.

If you cannot find something in the handbook, you will find it here - FAR / AIM (Federal Aviation Regulation / Aeronautical Information Manual) - our analogue - FAPs, which, if I understand correctly, were written with an eye to FAR / AIM, but yet they do not reach the level of structuredness and legislative support for GA flights.

Laws are updated regularly, so I prefer the electronic version. And it's easy to search, and the material is fresh, and you don't need to carry this "brick". In addition, the electronic version has the ability to filter the material in accordance with the type of flying license. This greatly facilitates the study of the material, but I strongly recommend not to be lazy and still read articles related to more advanced types of flights - there will be more than just knowledge of the material, but understanding.

If you plan to continue your flights on the territory of the Russian Federation, then it is imperative to know the Russian FAPs, and their most convenient source is a collection from the Russian division of AOPA. It is found in paper form, most convenient in PDF, while it is updated annually on the AOPA website ().

The next book, which is especially helpful in preparing for the oral part - it contains an impressive number of possible questions and answers to them with references to laws. You solve it entirely - consider that you are ready for the oral. Better yet, have a fellow student or instructor ask questions from a book and you answer verbally.

Let's go back to the written exam. This book contains all the same questions as the problem book in the video course, but there is a huge advantage!

And the advantage is expressed in the appendix to the textbook of the original book with the handout of the exam.
Those. in the exam, you will change distances, read maps, determine flight characteristics, working with paper handouts. And it's great to get used to using it beforehand. The photo below is not from PPL, but from Instrument - I lost PPL after the exam.

This is how illustrations of the material with a fragment from the low-altitude route map and a page from A / FD look like. In electronic courses there are many convenient tools for working with maps, but the exam will have a regular scaled ruler (plotter) and you need to be able to use it.

And this book is already many years old (fresh reissue) - it was written back in the distant 194s. And it has not lost its relevance to this day! Explains aircraft aerodynamics and practical aspects of piloting simply and intelligibly. Recommended for pilots of any level :)

The story would be incomplete, and it would not be fair to miss some excellent books from the Soviet years. And the first of them - one might say a classic - Piloting from Chernoy and Korablin. The ageless methods of air navigation are described in detail and in an accessible way.

There were many questions in the comments about preparations for conducting English-language radio exchange.
I liked this handbook the most - a lively understandable language, parsing phraseology by flight stages and situations, as well as many other aspects of radio communication to ensure comfortable and safe flights (albeit primarily in the States), for example, what is the transponder, the main purpose and what additional benefits can be obtained from it.

These books are also useful, but I liked them less.

Optionally, you can listen to a video course on the same topic from Sportis. But you won't be able to practice.

But it's great to train in this program - it's almost gone for sale, but you can easily find it on torrents :) It also analyzes the theory, but it also allows you to conduct interactive training, and then compare your sound with professionals. I highly highly recommend! The immersion effect is very good - at the very beginning I was even nervous, in fact dictating "radio messages" to the computer. :)

Another learning topic is the weather! It is impossible to know everything about the weather, so it is recommended to study this subject constantly. Below is a basic tutorial.

This is already an advanced tutorial from a famous pilot. And the author of the highly acclaimed book in aviation circles in the States, North Star over my shoulder, a captivatingly written autobiography of flying from co-pilot on a Douglas DC-2 to captain on a Boeing 747.

And another one from another pilot who has produced a lot of popular training material on all sorts of aspects of flying.

Official information about the sources of weather data, applicable almost only in the states.

Russian textbooks should not be discounted either, although their academic language is somewhat heavy after simple and understandable handbooks :(

And here is another classic book on meteorology from bygone days. In meteorology, as in aerodynamics, little has changed over the years, especially applicable to small aircraft. You can find this book, as well as Aircraft Navigation and several other Russian-language textbooks on the website.

Oddly enough, most weather books contain very conventional illustrations of various weather effects. Therefore, looking through a full-fledged weather atlas is very interesting :)

Well, in conclusion, but no less than all previous books, I want to advise you to find and read a series of books under the general title I Learned About Flying From That (ILAFFT) - this is a selection of the best stories ever published in the eponymous section of Flying magazine for the period from 194 to 200. These are frank stories of pilots who found themselves in situations where they regretted that they were not on the ground. Thanks to a happy coincidence, they managed to survive in order to warn us from their mistakes.

Once again I want to say, on the way to PPL or already thousands of hours of ATP, safe pilots do not stop striving for new information that will allow them to get closer to perfection in flying! Read and read as much as possible, even if this material is not yet applicable to your flights, even if it is one aviation book per month, even if it is not a textbook, but an autobiography, a blog entry, etc. Try to approach the information critically, imagine how it can be applied in your practice.

Safe flights, and in between interesting and useful reading!

There are people who cannot imagine themselves without heavenly heights. They associate their fate with aviation and find the meaning of life and special romance in their vocation. Fiction books about aviation will tell you about the sky and flying not from the standpoint of dry numbers - you will see stories.

Breathtaking stories about how the sky changes life. About the pilots, related to the steering wheel. About combat pilots who are ready to risk themselves again and again. About designers who create hardy iron birds ...

During the Chechen war, special forces lieutenant Vyacheslav Petrov was captured. Unexpectedly, the hero receives a special drink, falls into the past and eventually inhabits the body of Krasovsky, the famous pilot of the First World War. Can he change history?

The novel describes the air battles of the First World War, intrigues around military aircraft. The central theme of the plot is the struggle for and against the Russian miracle - the four-engine aircraft "Ilya Muromets". The time of the novel is 1915, the second year of the war.

It is not easy to fly mail planes, especially those of the 1930s, when biplanes still dominated. The book describes the life of a mail plane pilot: rare visits home, meetings with the Moors at a Moroccan airfield, flights through the desert and the ocean.

This book on civil aviation takes us to a time when commercial aviation was in its infancy. One of the main characters, the director of the Riviere mail airline network, has a very tough character. He severely exacts from those pilots whose night flight turned into an accident.

This book describes not only the flight on a reconnaissance aircraft to the city captured by the Nazis. It also describes the general picture of defeat - France was too quickly captured by the German conquerors. Is there any hope for the salvation of France?

The great French pilot, poet and writer created this novel after he got into a plane crash. The novel is dedicated to the famous pilot Henri Guillaume, one of the chapters describes his exploits. There is also a chapter dedicated to the most dangerous adventures of Exupery in the Sahara ...

During the Great Patriotic War, not only men took to the skies. The author of the book first served in the Taman Women's Aviation Regiment, then in the aviation division of A.I. Pokryshkin. I. Dryagina recalls fighting friends and girlfriends, joint sorties ...

The book tells about the famous Taman Aviation Regiment. The pilots of this regiment flew night bombers, instilling fear and horror in the Nazis. The brave heroines of this aviation regiment received the famous nickname "night witches".

The author of the book shares his memories of the Great Patriotic War. Both Chechneva herself and her peers chose the path of military pilots. In this book, the pilot recalls fellow soldiers, both those who died and those who met Victory Day, as well as her flights in peacetime.

This book tells about the fate of military pilots. These brave eagles went through a difficult path: at the beginning of the war they often escaped from wrecked aircraft, in the second year of the war they got involved in the most dangerous air battles, and in 1943 they already became a thunderstorm for the Nazis.

This book contains the memoirs of the fearless pilot Konstantin Mikhalenko, known by the nickname "night witcher". A little less than a thousand sorties on his account, and these were the most dangerous flights on the famous Po-2 "maize" night bomber!

It all started in the 1920s and 1930s. Flying clubs were created in the Soviet Union, where young talents came. Many pupils have become first-class pilots. During the Great Patriotic War, they served in the 673rd assault air regiment, and distinguished themselves in the Battle of Kursk.

The book describes the service of pilots of the Air Force of the Soviet Union. Not only the flight service is not easy - a serious responsibility lies on the shoulders of air traffic controllers and radio operators. In the plot there is a place for friendship, betrayal, love, jealousy, quarrels with superiors.

A blizzard unexpectedly hit a major airport. Serious difficulties begin for airport employees: either a passenger car with groceries got stuck somewhere, or one of the planes had an accident. In addition, the plot describes the personal dramas of the characters.

The hero of this book is the famous aircraft designer Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky. He worked in the Russian Empire, and during the First World War he built the Ilya Muromets heavy bomber. After emigrating to the United States, he built hydroplanes, and from the late 1930s, helicopters.

The hero of this book is the famous Soviet aircraft designer Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev. He designed both military and civilian aircraft. It was on the plane designed by Tupolev V.P. Chkalov and his comrades made the famous flight to the USA via the North Pole.

A journalist from Los Angeles is waiting for news about his wife and daughters - they are in flight. The news was terrible: the plane crashed, everyone died. But a year later, the journalist unexpectedly found out that a strange scientist had survived the disaster, it also turned out that otherworldly forces could not have done without ...

The flight was not easy - it was necessary to fly over high mountains. The flight ends in a plane crash, leaving only the pilot and passenger alive. The situation is very complicated, they can only hope for each other. Attachment gradually develops into love ...

The author of the book is a former pilot. He carefully analyzed the causes of the famous air crashes and concluded that they did not happen due to a fatal accident, but due to serious, if not incredible, mistakes of both the aircraft crews and air traffic controllers.

The book describes the adventures of the pilot Alexei Gushchin, who works in extreme situations. When flying in a thunderstorm, the pilot saves the plane by dropping excess cargo - jeeps. Exciting adventures, conflicts with superiors and a quarrel with a loved one make up the plot of the book.

During the Civil War, many aviation specialists left Russia: scientists, designers, engineers, pilots. Most of the emigrant pilots were Petersburgers. Emigrant aviators achieved especially great success on American soil.

For many years their names were forgotten, and their contribution to world aviation was not properly appreciated. The book "Petersburg Wings of America" ​​tells about the fate of Petersburgers who were forced to leave their homeland and seek happiness overseas in the field of the aviation industry. The book is based on a deep study of domestic and foreign archives, well illustrated, written in an easy and accessible language.

Nine hundred hours of heaven. The unknown history of the airship "USSR-B6"

On the evening of one of the February days in 1938, a huge torch lit up the snow-covered slopes of low mountains to the west of Kandalaksha. In a matter of minutes, the fire destroyed the best airship of the Union - "SSS R-V6 Osoaviakhim"

Airship historian Aleksey Belokrys puts forward a version based on various sources, including dozens of archival documents, many of which were declassified only recently and are being put into circulation for the first time.

The book does not end with the Arctic tragedy, but tells about the events that preceded the construction of the airship, about its place in the overall picture of domestic aeronautics, covering the period from the beginning of the 20th century until the cessation of the construction of airships in 1940.

Before you is a kind of history of airship building in our country, presented in an accessible form, with many facts and interesting details.

First Space Race: Satellite Challenge

In October 1957, thousands of people around the world went out at sunset or before dawn to watch the First Sputnik in the sky. Few people knew that they usually saw not the device itself, but the second stage of the R-7 rocket, which ended up in orbit along with the object it launched. The real heroes of the beginning of the Space Age were not satellites, but launch vehicles - without them, the triumphs of the first space flights were impossible. The book "The First Space Race: The Fight for the Satellite" tells about the formation and development of long-range ballistic missiles and launch vehicles of the first artificial satellites of the Earth, about the initial stage of the ambitious rivalry between the USSR and the USA in the field of space exploration, which arose in 1957 as a side effect of the cold war. The publication is addressed to a wide range of readers, primarily interested in the history of domestic and world rocket and space technology, but the main focus is on young people who are starting to get acquainted with astronautics and have a general initial training in this area. The book is supplemented with a large number of illustrations and graphic diagrams, many of which were made specifically for this edition.

To transcendental depths. History of high-altitude flights

This book is the result of a unique study of the path to high-altitude flight, one of the most exciting and, at the same time, little-known pages of aviation history. The author has collected and comprehensively analyzed extensive material relating to the development of work in the field of high-altitude flights - from the first daring ascents of aeronauts of the 18th century to the present. before the start of operation in 1940 of specialized high-altitude aircraft, which largely determined the current look of aviation. For the first time, a complete picture has been compiled that allows using the presented material as a basis for further research on the history of science and technology. The book contains both elements of historical and technical analysis and pays attention to the most fascinating episodes, due to which it may be of interest not only to historians of aviation, aeronautics and other technical specialists, but also to a wide range of readers.

The captain of the ship is speaking. Questions, answers and observations of an experienced pilot

Are you still looking for the "safest" seats on a plane? .Do you naively think that if the plane has already landed, then the worst is over? .Are you also sometimes interested in what prevents you from replacing all pilots with automated mechanisms? .Do you also want to know who sets ticket prices, what special skills pilots are taught, what is turbulence and what secrets do airports keep? .Patrick Smith, a curious civil aviation pilot who has circled the earth more than 1000 times, the author of the popular blog Ask the Pilot (“Ask the Pilot”), revealed all the secrets. The whole "air travel theater" in one book! Just please don't take it on a flight with you.