Airplane Flying Handbook: ASA FAA-H-8083-3B (FAA Handbooks Series) Paperback – November 28, 2016

I like flight simulators, but not for just game play. I want to learn how to do flying properly. This book will help me do that. There are extensive explanations of all types of airplane flying. Illustrations cover outside views, instruments, flight paths for takeoff, turns, and approaches. Many other subjects are in there for all types of aircraft.One can spend hours on just one subject, one section, and with a simulator, practicing again and again.This is FAA created publication is not expensive, and is worth the money even if costing much more.

I received the correct book, when your is delivered, look for the ASA wings on the top and color pictures inside. If you don't have that, it is a counterfeit and return it. Based on the number of 1 star reviews, there are a few vendors out there pushing their junk. On the initial browse through, this looks like a great reference book and great for student pilots. It is on the line of the Jeppesen "Private Pilot" book. great for learners and just deals with how to fly this winged contraption, not all of the later detail chapters of Jeppesen.

This review is for the quality of the print rather than the book's contents. I'm expecting the content to reflect the FAA document on which it is based. If it doesn't for whatever reason I may update this review. At the time of writing this review there were only two other reviews on Amazon, both with a single star, complaining about the print quality. I have no such complaints. The images are in color print and clearly readable and so is the text (see pictures). The pages are not "glossy" as in one of the popular prints of the prior version of this book Airplane Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-3A) but rather very similar (identical?) to Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge: FAA-H-8083-25B (FAA Handbooks series) also from ASA (and also a very good reference by the way). So if you have that book you know what to expect.

If you want to learn to fly sometimes you gotta use a good old fashion paper book.

A very good reference book on the subject.

The printing is good quality and has no issues. Photographs and illustrations are clear. The binding, on the other hand, isn't designed for use. After the binding started to separate when I was only on chapter 2, I took it to a local office supply store and had the spine cut off and they inserted a spiral binding instead. Better binding and now it lays flat!

I read several warnings on which book to buy as one appeared to be a copy with black and white photos. This book is the real deal - color photos, perfect binding. Precisely what I was looking for.

It's been many years since I've read a flying handbook. I got my PPL about 10 years ago using Rod Machado's book which was really good but I don't need as many anecdotes to learn/refresh these days. AFH and PHAK are my go-to books for clear, concise, easy to read instruction.