Free shipping on orders over $99
Cockpit Confidential

Cockpit Confidential

Everything You Need to Know about Air Travel - Questions, Answers, and Reflections

by Patrick Smith
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 08/07/2013

Share This Audio CD:

 
For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even fearful experience. Patrick Smith, airline pilot and author of the Web's popular Ask the Pilot feature, separates fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know . . .How planes fly, and a revealing look at the men and women who fly themStraight talk on turbulence, pilot training, and safetyThe real story on congestion, delays, and the dysfunction of the modern airportThe myths and misconceptions of cabin air and cockpit automationTerrorism in perspective, and a provocative look at securityAirfares, seating woes, and the pitfalls of airline customer serviceThe colors and cultures of the airlines we love to hateCockpit Confidential covers not only the nuts and bolts of flying, but also the grand theater of air travel, from airport architecture to inflight service to the excitement of travel abroad. It's a thoughtful, funny, at times deeply personal look into the strange and misunderstood world of commercial flying.
ISBN:
9781452645384
9781452645384
Category:
Travel & holiday
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
08-07-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Tantor Media, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
162.56x170.18x22.86mm
Weight:
0.36kg
Patrick Smith

Patrick Smith is regarded as one of Australia’s leading sports journalists and commentators, and with good reason.

He has won three Walkley awards, including two for commentary and analysis; was runner-up as Australian Journalist of the Year; has been AFL football writer of the year and columnist of the year three times; and won major awards for coverage of cricket, golf, basketball, racing, football. He has covered Olympic Games, Melbourne Cups, US Golf Masters, NBL grand finals, AFL grand finals and world heavyweight boxing title fights among a host of other memorable sporting moments since starting his career as a copy boy with the Sun News Pictorial in 1970.

Click 'Notify Me' to get an email alert when this item becomes available

Reviews

Be the first to review Cockpit Confidential.