I'm looking for a good about basic flight manoeuvres. I've heard of these books:William K. Kershner:The Student's Pilot's Flight Manual: From First Flight to Private Certificiate, Ninth Edition (Paperback) - price 39$Wolfgang Langewiesche:Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying (Hardcover)- price 16$Does anybody know if these books are worth reading in connection with an interest in GA-flying in FS9 (Cessna 172 etc) ?Any other suggestions regarding books about/links to information on this issue? (to be honest I find the humour in the MSFS Groundschool a little silly....:D) Friendly RegardsLars

Both of those are excellent choices, especially Stick and Rudder. Also quite good are the Proficient Pilot series (three books) by Barry Schiff and the Jeppessen Provate Pilot's Manual. Rod Machado's Private Pilot Handbook is out there, but since he is the one who did the FS9 school, there is a lot of the same type of humor. And the bible is Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators, but that is probably too technical for what you want. Bob

Try these online books:http://fsinsider.com/articles/bestfree-add-ons.htm

Stick and Rudder has been a "bestseller" for 61 (yes, really!) years now, and not without good reason. In some respects it's a little dated now, in terms of the language and one or two of his conjectures about the future. But reading it helped my RW flying considerably, with explanations much better than the modern texts I was using. Thoroughly recommended.

I enjoyed both these, but especially stick and rudder

The FAA Flight Training Handbookhttp://www.dauntless-soft.com/PRODUCTS/Fre...httraining.html

Also, the FAA's Airplane Flying Handbook.My personal library that covers what you want consists of:[ul][li]Jeppessen Private Pilot Manual by Jeppessen[/li][li]Airplane Flying Handbook by the FAA[/li][li]Stick and Rudder by Wolfgang Langewiesche[/li][/ul]For instrument rules flying, if you want it, these are what I have read that I would recommend:[ul][li]Jeppessen Instrument Commercial Manual by Jeppessen[/li][li]Instrument Flying Handbook by the FAA[/li][/ul]----------------------------------------------------------------John MorganReal World: KGEG, UND Aerospace Spokane Satillite, Private ASEL 141.2 hrs, 314 landings, 46 inst. apprs.Virtual: MSFS 2004"There is a feeling about an airport that no other piece of ground can have. No matter what the name of the country on whose land it lies, an airport is a place you can see and touch that leads to a reality that can only be thought and felt." - The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story by Richard Bach

Stick and Rudder and Kerscheners Student Flight Manual helped me to get my private Ticket and to stay safe after that. Both are worth their weight in gold...

I can really recommend:The Flying Training Manual and Basic Aeronautical Knowledge from the Aviation Theory CentreThey're both Aussie books, but what I really like about them is that the FTM has actual excersises in the book that you can easily follow in FS. The books get way beyond what the FS school has to offer (they really cover a lot of basics in very good depth) and doing the excersises you even hit the limits of what FS can do (or better what the default C172 can do). You should get Rob Young's C172 airfile so you can do the advanced stuff (like spinning). Very excellent books, better than the online FAA books.Cheers,Christian

In the UK there is a paper-back series entitled the Air Pilot's Manual. It complies with existing JAR-FCL and the new National PPL training syllabus.It's in 7 volumes:1 - Flying training2 - Aviation law and meteorology3 - Air navigation4 - The aeroplane - technical5 - Radio navigation and instriment flying6 - Human factors and pilot performance7 - Radio telephonyObviously you only need buy what you're interested in.

Hi,These are good and for free:USAF Instrument Flight Training Manual (300 Pages / 25MB)http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/pubfiles/af...man11-217v1.pdfFAA Instrument Flying Handbook, 280 pageshttp://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aviatio...lying_handbook/FAA Airplane Flying Handbook, 281 pageshttp://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aircraf...plane_handbook/FAA Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge, 353 pageshttp://www.faa.gov/pilots/training/handbook/

>Hi,>>These are good and for free:>>USAF Instrument Flight Training Manual (300 Pages / 25MB)>http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/pubfiles/af...man11-217v1.pdf>>FAA Instrument Flying Handbook, 280 pages>http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aviatio...lying_handbook/>>FAA Airplane Flying Handbook, 281 pages>http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aircraf...plane_handbook/>>FAA Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge, 353 pages>http://www.faa.gov/pilots/training/handbook/>That's the best answer you'll get!(I remember I've seen some other sites that even charge downloading these books!)And a small tip; once you download them and decide to print them, use regeistered Acrobat to merge all the chapters of one book in one volume! Once you do that, don't forget to delete all the empty pages (between the chapters) before you save the result an print it! :)http://www.fspassengers.com/images/banner/sig/sdc8.jpg

Hi again,Thanks for all your good answers. I've downloaded the FAA handbooks and they seems to be very good. I made a print of these books (good for the "good night" reading - a little inconvenient to take your PC to bed....;-)). Concerning the printing advice above I found the best result printing the cover as a single sheet and then duplex-print the rest, so you get the page-numbers to the right where you want them.I bought "Stick and Rudder" and have been reading about "Turns" in this book. I must say that the writing-style of Langewiesche makes it neccesary to concentrate on the object! In my search for good litterature on flight maneuvres I found the free on-line book by John S. Denker: "Se How It Flies" explaining everything that happens when you fly. I think you can find every explanation about the physics of flight maneuvres in this excellent book. You can find it here: http://www.av8n.com/how/ Best RegardsLars