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Appendix C: Recommended Reading
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C
Recommended
Reading
The following works are highly recommended by
the Microsoft
®
Flight Simulator 2000 team for any
aviation enthusiast.
Ackerman, Diane. On Extended Wings. New York:
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1987.
Poet Diane Ackerman struggles with a
macho instructor and her own self-
doubt in this beautiful, moving book
about learning to fly.
Bach, Richard. A Gift of Wings. New York:
Delacorte Press, 1974.
A collection of short stories and essays
by the world’s best-known pilot-
philosopher. Bach’s other aviation
classics include Stranger to the Ground,
Biplane, and Nothing By Chance. Must-
reads for anyone passionate about
flying.
Buck, Rinker. Flight of Passage. New York:
Hyperion, 1997.
Two teenage brothers refurbish a Piper
Cub and set out to fly across the country
in the 1960s.
Coyle, Shawn. The Art and Science of Flying
Helicopters. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State
University Press, 1996.
Filled with diagrams and graphs, Coyle’s
book explains clearly both the art and
the science of rotary-wing flight.
Gann, Ernest K. Fate Is the Hunter. New York:
Simon and Schuster, 1986.
Gann was an early airline pilot and a
Military Air Transport Service pilot
during World War II. He tells wonderful
tales about the days when being an
airline pilot was considered to be
something between foolish and
completely idiotic.
Gosnell, Mariana. Zero 3 Bravo: Solo across
America in a small plane. New York:
Knopf, 1993.
A young woman flies her Luscombe
across the United States and back,
seeing America from 1,500 feet.
Kisor, Henry. Flight of the Gin Fizz: Midlife at 4,500
feet. New York: Basic Books, 1997.
A deaf pilot sets out to recreate a flight
across America by a deaf pilot who
accomplished the feat in 1911.
Langewiesche, Wolfgang. Stick and Rudder. New
York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972.
Written in 1944, Stick and Rudder is still
thought of as one of the best books for
understanding how planes fly and how
to fly better. This is a timeless classic
every pilot should read.