Book Description
Provides information from veteran travelers on ways to make flying safer combat fear of flying, packing, and coping with customs, featuring practical advice for women travelling alone
Author : Colin Haynes
Publisher : Scott Foresman Trade
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 1990-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780673388018
Provides information from veteran travelers on ways to make flying safer combat fear of flying, packing, and coping with customs, featuring practical advice for women travelling alone
Author : Gregory N. Brown
Publisher : Aviation Supplies & Academics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2016-02
Category : Flight training
ISBN : 9781619543003
Second Edition You've mastered the FAA handbooks and wrapped up one of the toughest orals of your flying career. You can now fly and talk at the same time, all from the right seat. You can create lesson plans, enter mysterious endorsements in student logbooks, and actually explain the finer points of a lazy eight. That's everything you'll ever need to know in order to flight instruct?or is it? This book is designed to help with all those ?other" flight instructing questions, like why and how to become a CFI in the first place, and how to get your first instructing job. Where do flight students come from? And once you've got them, how do you keep them flying? How can you optimize your students' pass rate on checkrides? And how do you get flight customers to come back to you for their advanced ratings? Written by Greg Brown (author of The Turbine Pilot's Flight Manual and Job Hunting for Pilots), this Second Edition of The Savvy Flight Instructor provides nearly 20 years of additional wisdom, experience, and know-how, and includes new ?Finer Points" contributed by industry experts. While this edition retains the key marketing, pilot training, and customer support concepts that made the original edition required CFI reading, those areas have been refined and expanded to incorporate the latest industry philosophies and techniques. Readers will learn how best to sell today's prospects on flying and how to utilize online marketing and social media. Greg Brown lays out tips for offering flight-instructing services with the sophistication of other competitive activities that beckon from just a click away on potential customers' computers and mobile devices. Aspiring flight instructors will learn why and how to qualify, and how to get hired once you earn the certificate. There's extensive coverage of techniques for systematizing customer success and satisfaction policies, strategies for pricing and structuring flight training to fit today's market, integration of affordable simulation technologies into your training programs, and tips for coping with the ?CFI shortage." Along with tips on how to attract and retain flight students, the author examines professionalism in flight instructing. In short, The Savvy Flight Instructor shows you how to use your instructing activities to increase student satisfaction, promote general aviation, and advance your personal flying career all at the same time. Contributing writers in the new Finer Points sections are Heather Baldwin (a commercial pilot and marketing writer), and CFIs Jason Blair (a designated pilot examiner), Ben Eichelberger (a flight training standardization expert), Dorothy Schick (flight school owner and marketing innovator), and Ian Twombly (noted flight-training writer and editor).
Author : Mike Busch
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 2018-05-12
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : 9781718608955
"The risk of engine failure is greatest when your engine is young, NOT when it's old. You should worry more about pediatrics than geriatrics." -Mike Busch A&P/IA Mike Busch on Engines expands the iconoclastic philosophy of his groundbreaking first book Manifesto to the design, operation, condition monitoring, maintenance and troubleshooting of piston aircraft engines. Busch begins with the history and theory of four-stroke spark-ignition engines. He describes the construction of both the "top end" (cylinders) and "bottom end" (inside the case), and functioning of key systems (lubrication, ignition, carburetion, fuel injection, turbocharging). He reviews modern engine leaning technique (which your POH probably has all wrong), and provides a detailed blueprint for maximizing the life of your engine. The second half presents a 21st-century approach to health assessment, maintenance, overhaul and troubleshooting. Busch explains how modern condition monitoring tools-like borescopy, oil analysis and digital engine monitor data analysis-allow you to extend engine life and overhaul strictly on-condition rather at an arbitrary TBO. The section devoted to troubleshooting problems like rough running, high oil consumption, temperamental ignition and turbocharging issues is worth its weight in gold. If you want your engine to live long and prosper, you need this book.
Author : Stacie Krajchir
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1452153019
The Itty Bitty Guide to Business Travel is a pocket-sized travel agent, personal organizer, and stress-reliever all in one. Perfect for the young professional, the advice in these pages covers everything a business traveler needs to know, from getting a handle on trip goals and preparing colleagues for an extended absence, to finding the best deals and making efficient use of travel time. Lists of helpful questions assist readers in determining their trip needs, and handy checklists make it easy to get out the door on time, with no last-minute panic. The perfect on-the-road companion, The Itty Bitty Guide to Business Travel gets travelers there and back again -- job well done.
Author : Darryl Jenkins
Publisher : Irwin Professional Publishing
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781556237522
Aids the travel management department in understanding the intricacies involved in the usage of airline, hotel, rental-car, and other travel operations
Author : Ingrid Law
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1440634858
A vibrant new voice . . . a modern classic. For generations, the Beaumont family has harbored a magical secret. They each possess a “savvy”—a special supernatural power that strikes when they turn thirteen. Grandpa Bomba moves mountains, her older brothers create hurricanes and spark electricity . . . and now it’s the eve of Mibs’s big day. As if waiting weren’t hard enough, the family gets scary news two days before Mibs’s birthday: Poppa has been in a terrible accident. Mibs develops the singular mission to get to the hospital and prove that her new power can save her dad. So she sneaks onto a salesman’s bus . . . only to find the bus heading in the opposite direction. Suddenly Mibs finds herself on an unforgettable odyssey that will force her to make sense of growing up—and of other people, who might also have a few secrets hidden just beneath the skin.
Author : Darryl Jenkins
Publisher : Irwin Professional Publishing
Page : pages
File Size : 22,53 MB
Release : 1992-12-01
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ISBN : 9781556239625
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 1998-03
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Author : Jerry Kaplan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0544391276
The classic account of the early days of tech, named one of the 10 best business books of the year by Business Week: “Riveting, wry, and often wise.”—The Washington Post Jerry Kaplan had a dream: he would redefine the known universe (and get very rich) by creating a new kind of computer. All he needed was sixty million dollars, a few hundred employees, and a maniacal belief in his ability to win the Silicon Valley startup game. Kaplan, a well-known figure in the computer industry, founded GO Corporation in 1987, and for several years it was one of the hottest new ventures in the Valley. Startup tells the story of Kaplan's wild ride: how he assembled a brilliant but fractious team of engineers, software designers, and investors; pioneered the emerging market for hand-held computers operated with a pen instead of a keyboard; and careened from crisis to crisis without ever losing his passion for his revolutionary idea. Along the way, Kaplan vividly recreates his encounters with eccentric employees, risk-addicted venture capitalists, and industry giants such as Bill Gates and John Sculley. And no one—including Kaplan himself—is spared his sharp wit. “What separates Kaplan’s tale from other start-up stories is the insight he provides about dealing with two of America's largest computer companies—IBM and Microsoft…Readers interested in entrepreneurial adventurism will find Kaplan’s tale entertaining.”—Publishers Weekly “Kaplan tells it with novelistic style replete with races against the clock and sharp character sketches…An insider's well-written story of the death of a new machine.”—Kirkus Reviews “A winner.”—Wired
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Page : 914 pages
File Size : 30,97 MB
Release : 2000-03
Category : Hotels
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