Reviews for Quest for All-Weather Flight

The average rating for Quest for All-Weather Flight based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-09-04 00:00:00 Paul Dmura Being an aviation enthusiast and former air traffic controller, but without any piloting experience of any sort, I was fascinated by the difficulties posed by piloting an aircraft at night or inside a cloud this book made me aware. I was familiar with the problems and solutions to navigating without land references, but had no idea that if you don't have the horizon in sight you loose track of your verticality and can end up upside down without noticing it! This and other hurdles presented by darkness and bad weather (including icing) to aviation pioneers and the solutions developed are exhaustedly covered in this book, in an attractive manner and punctuated with personal testimonies from those pioneers that make the book that more pleasant to read. Maybe a little too complete if you're not an aviation buff, but if you are, I think this is an absolutely "must have" in your collection.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-09-24 00:00:00 Halcombe Kendall After six months, I've finished reading a textbook on one of my passions, the global airline industry! Although the book is a bit outdated, it provides the most comprehensive view of the airline industry that I could find (I'm very open to additional suggestions!). The book's principal authors each have 20+ years of industry experience and ties to the industry's research leader, MIT. I especially enjoyed the chapters on the airline planning process (Ch. 6), airport design (Ch. 12), and information technology (Ch. 15). The casual reader would have interest in and much to gain from these three chapters, along with the overview chapters (Ch. 1, 3). I read this book because my intellectual passion is operations improvement in the airline industry. Because of low profit margins, volatile fuel prices, and increasing environmental concerns, operations improvement is paramount to sustaining a competitive airline company. This book sparked three improvement ideas that I hope to have the chance to pose in the future; as a bonus, it was an enjoyable read!