Airplane Flying Handbook (Federal Aviation Administration): FAA-H-8083-3B

Great book for the student pilot!! Covers all major subjects of aviation from the FFA regulations to weather and ground control issues

This review is for the quality of the print rather than the book's contents. I'm expecting the content to reflect the FAA document on which it is based. If it doesn't for whatever reason I may update this review. At the time of writing this review there were only two other reviews on Amazon, both with a single star, complaining about the print quality. I have no such complaints. The images are in color print and clearly readable and so is the text (see pictures). The pages are not "glossy" as in one of the popular prints of the prior version of this book Airplane Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-3A) but rather very similar (identical?) to Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge: FAA-H-8083-25B (FAA Handbooks series) also from ASA (and also a very good reference by the way). So if you have that book you know what to expect.

I like flight simulators, but not for just game play. I want to learn how to do flying properly. This book will help me do that. There are extensive explanations of all types of airplane flying. Illustrations cover outside views, instruments, flight paths for takeoff, turns, and approaches. Many other subjects are in there for all types of aircraft. One can spend hours on just one subject, one section, and with a simulator, practicing again and again. This is FAA created publication is not expensive, and is worth the money even if costing much more.

I received the correct book, when your is delivered, look for the ASA wings on the top and color pictures inside. If you don't have that, it is a counterfeit and return it. Based on the number of 1 star reviews, there are a few vendors out there pushing their junk. On the initial browse through, this looks like a great reference book and great for student pilots. It is on the line of the Jeppesen "Private Pilot" book. great for learners and just deals with how to fly this winged contraption, not all of the later detail chapters of Jeppesen.

If you want to learn to fly sometimes you gotta use a good old fashion paper book.

The printing is good quality and has no issues. Photographs and illustrations are clear. The binding, on the other hand, isn't designed for use. After the binding started to separate when I was only on chapter 2, I took it to a local office supply store and had the spine cut off and they inserted a spiral binding instead. Better binding and now it lays flat!

Great audio book to listen to while driving or running.... It's mostly stuff we know, but there were a few things I heard that my instructors missed and were totally applicable and useful Old adage "a good pilot is always learning"

Just received it (09/16/20) I read the reviews after the purchase and thought oh shout It will be in black and white but it is actually in color and a good print quality.

Versão física do material disponibilizado digitalmente pela FAA. Excelente para quem estuda aviação, bem completo. Boa encadernação e diagramação, a impressão é colorida e de boa qualidade. O papel usado no entanto é tipo um papel jornal, mas está de acordo com o preço praticado. Como é pra estudo e consulta, não precisa mais que isso mesmo. Material recomendadíssimo!

Muy buen libro. No sustituye el aprendizaje con tu instructor, pero viene muy bien para repasar técnicas y procedimientos y visualmente es muy didáctico. Recomendable.

Ideal for would be pilots and aviators full of useful techniques and full of written descriptions with illustrations explaining the required knowledge to get your private pilots licence .. Ideal if you are virtual flying on your computer or other sim station and gives every possible skill required to be a real pilot

Poorly printed in black and white (not in colour!). Bad quality. Pictures are unclear. Unusable, I returned it immediately.

if you want to know all the details about flying airplanes - start here. Be prepared for loads of information, though... not for the fainthearted readership - you'll need patience and time to digest all the valuable stuff...