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The Student Pilot's Flight Manual: Including FAA Knowledge Test Questions, Answers and Explanations, and Practical (Flight) Test for Airplanes (Student Pilot's Flight Manual)
by William K. Kershner
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Iowa State Press (1998-04)
ISBN: 0813816092
EAN: 9780813816098
Dewy Decimal #: 629.13252
Paperback: 496 pages
Edition: 8th
SKU: 071020001
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: This eight Edition copy is in good condition. No visible markings, highlights, underlining, tears. Clean tight text and spine. Attached at back is the Sectional Aeronautical Chart. No Dust Jacket. Back Soft Cover has a crease/fold to bottom. Front cover has a crease to bottom also with a small chip. Some tiny scratches to front/back cover with a few smooth-out dog-ears to back bottom pages. Apart from Soft cover which has fair to moderate shelf/edge wear. This is a great Student Pilot's Flight Manual at an affordable price. (K 46)
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Customer Reviews
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9th Edition Tarnished By Factual Errors
Rating  (3)
Date: 2006-02-12
10 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
Earlier editions of this book had a well deserved reputation for excellence. Kershner is a master of taking the highly technical subject of flying and distilling it into an efficient, enjoyable learning experience.
Imagine my surprise to find the ninth edition rife with errors! Examples:
- erroneous definition of Class A airspace;
- erroneous decoding of wind speed and direction in a sample TAF weather report;
- erroneous Sigmet description;
- Weather Depiction Chart doesn't match explanations in the text.
These are some of the errors that I found and I'm not yet a pilot. The skills required for actually flying an airplane haven't changed much since I purchased my much-thumbed 5th edition 20 yrs ago but airspace regulations and weather reporting have changed considerably- probably not a coincidence that the errors I found are in the newer material. A quick calculation of Kershner's age at the time of the 9th edition publication makes me wonder if he was even involved in creating the updated sections.
All the content of this book is available for free via a few different downloads off the FAA website. Thus the major reason for buying this book is to cut to the chase on the body of knowledge required to earn a private pilot license because the FAA downloads though well written, cover everything from powered parachutes to jumbo jets. At least the first two of the above errors would cause wrong responses on the private pilot written test causing me to question the value of the $40 I spent on this book though I did just notice that Amazon recently cut the price by a third.
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Better for After Knowledge Test Referance
Rating (3)
Date: 2002-03-24
10 out of 13 customers found this reveiw helpful
I purchased his book (an earlier version) on recommendation of my flight instructor when first starting out. If your looking strictly for study material to score high on the written test there is more information than you need. If your looking for a good referance book after the written test then purchase Rod Machado's pilot manual. I use Rod's book now after earning my private license. Whenever I pick it up it either refreshes my knowledge or I am able to learn something new with further depth. Rod's book is well complimented with illustrations and diagrams to help understand the subject matter. If you want a book to use strictly for the knowlege test they are both overkill.
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Great book
Rating  (5)
Date: 2001-08-17
10 out of 12 customers found this reveiw helpful
Informative, articulate, and carefully edited -- a must have reference for aspiring pilots. Especially impressive is Kershner's ability to avoid the most common pitfalls of writing technical material: the text is tight, complete, succinct, and perhaps most surprisingly, a real treat to read.
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Great Tool
Rating  (4)
Date: 2000-10-18
15 out of 15 customers found this reveiw helpful
This was a great tool for my flight instruction. Kershner has a way of explaining things that is better than the other books I was able to find. I read this on my own instead of ground school and past my written and practical - so, it worked!
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excellent easy to follow guide.
Rating (4)
Date: 1999-09-27
45 out of 45 customers found this reveiw helpful
I actually read, and used extensively, the 7th edition of this book. Mr. Kershner has a easy to read and follow style that has helped me tremendously on my way to getting certified as a private pilot. Whenever I was having diffuculty learning a particular aspect of flying I referred first to this book and got the straight and skinny on the subject. Mr. Kershner obviously has a grasp on what a student pilot goes through to understand the technical jargon and concepts of flight principals, navigation, cross country flying, flight instuments, and landing an airplane.The illstrations are clear and concise. The photographs are very good. I highly recommend this book to any student pilot as a supplement to ground school, or anyone interested in what it takes to learn to fly, or anyone who flys in a light plane as a passenger and wants to learn more about what's going on in the cockpit and the pilot's mind.
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