| The Pilot's Air Traffic Control Handbook (Practical Flying Series) |  | Author: Paul E. Illman
Publisher: TAB Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1215680
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 221
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0830641378
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.13660973
EAN: 9780830641376
ASIN: 0830641378
Publication Date: April 1993
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Condition: A nice ex-library copy. Gently used. All pages and cover clear except for a few library markings. Binding solid and tight. No creases.
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Book Description
For the many recreational pilots who find themselves flying out of their way to avoid controlled airspaces...reluctant to make use of the optional ATC services or uncertain about the protocol of contacting the ATC tower, this book offers the solutions. Paul Illman, an expert in the field, takes pilots through the ins and outs of using the ATC system, clearly and simply. He explains the airspace system fully from operating over Class B and C airports...to flight service stations and the air route traffic control centers. This best-selling volume in the Practical Flying Series, fully updated with the latest regulations and new chapters on VFR use of ATC, will give the VFR-rated pilot the confidence needed to negotiate any airspace and land at any airport like a pro.
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Say Again by Gardner is better April 24, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I enjoyed Paul Illman's Radio Communication's Handbook. I first read it ten years ago when I was training for my private certificate. I enjoyed it so much that I bought the updated version a couple of years ago. But I found that the new version of the RCH suffered from the same problem as the Air Traffic Control Handbook - too bloated with superfluous information and not enough on practical issues facing either a VFR or IFR pilot that wants to get real world advice on using the ATC system. When I bought the ATCH, I also bought Gardner's Say Again to hedge my bets in case I was disappointed with the ATCH. Having read them both back to back, Say Again is a shorter read but fuller of useful advice and also easier to follow. I think the ATCH suffers from poor editing and could be a better book if it were shorter but more pithy. Maybe this will be corrected in the next edition. I won't single out the ATCH on this critcism though; most aviation handbooks seem to gain unnecessary weight with each edition. For example the Jeppessen IFR handbook was a mere 150 pp back in the sixties now its a nearly thousand page behemoth and I'm not sure it's much better (issues aside about the myriad changes in regulations, technology, and airspace since). More than any endeavor in aviation the KISS principal reigns supreme.
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