Air Transportation

This is a book that I am using for an online course I must complete for a college degree. I seems to be very up-to-date and informative. It not to big but it resembles the size of a college textbook and is just about as involved as one. Language is very aviation oriented.

This is the second edition of this book that I have owned. I used both for undergraduate and graduate classes at Embry-Riddle. This book just keeps getting better. It serves as a good reference for aviation history in addition to the main subject of Air Transportation. The author provides a wealth of information but is still easy to understand. The reference material on aircraft and manufacturers towards the end was not expected, but another informative resource, as was the section regarding commercial aviation safety and a number of case studies. A nice touch is the "Laugh Breaks" between the chapters, which is a collection of different aviation an ATC communications that I have all heard, but only seen for the first time in publication here. They don't add to the professional information, but are nice, short little diversions. Most textbooks I use for class and then resell. I've kept BOTH copies. The old one I keep at my the hangar, and the newer one I keep at home, to use as references.