For pilots looking to improve their math skills in the cockpit and easily perform math calculations in their heads, this book offers numerous tips and invaluable tricks to help in all areas of cockpit calculations. Pilots are guided through basic and more advanced formulas with explanations on how to perform them without needing paper or electronic calculators, step-by-step instructions, practice exercises, and personal advice from experienced pilots. Easy and quick methods for calculating airborne math problems, enroute descents, and visual descent points are covered. Numerous references, math memorization tables, lists of formulas, and definitions for terms and abbreviations are provided. This book will be useful for pilots gearing up for airline interviews, preparing for checkrides or proficiency checks, or wanting to improve their in-flight calculations performance.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Good investment:
A new approach to improve on your license or if your a student a way to help you along with less frustration. This product was well worth the time if you sit and take it seriously it will greatly help you. This tool is good for more than just flying though, it will help you in every day life.
Excellant Format:
Extremely well written. Provides great descriptions of sometimes difficult to understand/visualize aviation concepts. I appreciated how the chapters were organized ... starting with the necessities (foundational concepts/basic math) and gradually stepping up the level of complexity with each subsequent chapter. Plenty of room for margin notes when there is a need to jot down and "fyi" or two.
Mental Math for Pilots:
I was quite disappointed with this book. I had expected this book to be an excellent source of techniques, easier that those I've learned so far in training, but it turned out differently; I found those I've learned from my instructors (and from several websites and forums) much easier to use during flight than those elaborated in this booklet. I'm sorry to say that I did not get my money's worth out of this tiny booklet.
Very handy:
This book can be pretty useful with lost of tips and well summarized formulas with explanations and different ways of calculating and dealing with a variety of prblems a pilot faces on his everyday operations, I strongly recommend it
