Flight of Passage

@JasonC – Based on that and the reviews, I’ve just ordered it off Amazon; thanks.

Buck’s weather flying book is a classic.

Hope you enjoy it; it’s not the typical airline autobiography. I just noticed that he also wrote a book called “Weather Flying”.

I managed to try and turn the page of a printed memo by tapping it the other day until I realised I was not using an ipad One of the main reasons my kids are not allowed to use the ipad and must read from real books!

I am reading “North Star over my Shoulder” by Bob Buck who joined TWA in the late 1930’s on DC-2’s and -3’s (playing with some of the early ILS approaches) ending up in 747s. It’s a very pleasant and engaging read with a gentle, matter of fact style. Much of what he says sounds like what my FI used to tell me which either means my FI was on the button or the mechanics of flying an aircraft have not changed in 70 years… He also has quite an interest in weather.

I tend to read a lot and the advent of Kindle and the related app means I end up reading more without filling the house with more books (although some books, such as “Think like a bird” by Alex Kimball or Flight of Passage are good to have in hard copy). I found “North Star” on Scribd which for the basic monthly subscription gives access to quite a few books including aviation related ones which is quite good when on the move.

I have just finished reading ‘travels with puff’. Same author that wrote Jonathan Livingston seagull. It’s about author ferrying his new seaplane across the US. Pretty good!

Richard Bach also wrote “Nothing by Chance”, which describes a summer of barnstorming in 1969, done as it was in 1929. They announce their biplane’s arrival in town by ejecting the young parachutist, Stu, who is destined for dental school at the end of the summer. A Luscombe follows along. What made that especially interesting to me is that in real life Stu the mild mannered dentist is still flying his own Travel Air biplane regularly 45 years later, and still has a Luscombe too. The events described in the book surely captured his imagination and the book captures the spirit of the planes and what they were doing very nicely.

I have just finished reading ‘travels with puff’. Same author that wrote Jonathan Livingston seagull. It’s about author ferrying his new seaplane across the US. Pretty good!

I also read it a few months ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. I suspect some of the accounts were a little overdramatised. The Guadaloupe pass isn’t that difficult even in a 65HP Cub.

In a slightly similar vane, I’d also recommend Stephen Coonts’ ‘Cannibal Queen’.

Yes, one of my favorite flying books. (Do you read german Adam?)