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So how serious are you about becoming an exceptional pilot? If you think that passing your pilot exam is all there is to it, then you’ve still got a lot to learn about being in the cockpit. These Pilot Proficiency Books will help you gain a strong understanding of all the Piloting & Flight Skills concepts you will need to grasp as a professional pilot.

The book entitled The Pilot’s Burden discusses the roots and causes of pilot error, which is the main cause of airplane accidents. The Say Again, Please: Guide to Radio Communications book will help give you a level of comfort when doing radio transmissions. Be sure to browse this entire section of Piloting & Flight Skills books ––– regardless of the stage in your piloting career you’re at, you’ll probably benefit from one or more of these great aviation books!

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ASA 21st Century Flight Training: A powerful new resource for flight instructors and their students, with insights into the challenges of training in the new millennium.
ASA The Complete Multi-Engine Pilot: The essentials of a complete multi-engine training program with study questions, written exam, and syllabus. Covers the aerodynamic fundamentals that govern multi-engine flight.
ASA Train Like You Fly: Guide to Scenario-Based Training—tips and hints for making pilot training REAL!
ASA The Pilot's Burden: Flight Safety and the Roots of Pilot Error
ASA Lessons from the Logbook: Flying techniques from the best teacher of all: Experience.
ASA Aviation Radio Communications Made Easy, VFR Edition: Talk like a pro, using templates that function as a script for your VFR flights, in this spiral-bound book.
ASA Pilot Medical Handbook - Human Factors for Successful Flying: A compilation of FAA and CAMI documents covering human factors for safety of flight.
ASA Takeoffs and Landings: Leighton Collins' aviation classic provides expert, flight-tested techniques pilots need to takeoff and land safely, skillfully, every time.
ASA Flight Training: Taking the Short Approach: A comprehensive orientation to aviation — find out what's involved with learning to fly and earning a pilot's license in this streamlined approach to flight training.
ASA Say Again, Please: Guide to Radio Communications: Bob Gardner’s book uses typical examples of radio transmissions to help increase readers’ comfort level when using the mic.
ASA Sunset to Sunrise Night Flight Techniques: Prepares pilots for the unique considerations involved with night operations; packed with useful information and practical techniques.
ASA You Can Fly! For prospective pilots, an exciting and informative introduction to the world of flying and flight training, profusely illustrated with full-color photography by Tom Lippert.
ASA A Pilot's Guide to Aircraft and Their Systems: The more you know about your aircraft systems, the better you fly.
ASA Air Crashes: What went wrong, why, and what can be done about it -- this book examines aviation accidents so readers can avoid repeating them.
ASA Confident Flying: A Pilot Upgrade: This new edition of Collins' and Bradley's Confident Flying: A Pilot Upgrade examines the role the pilot plays in the outcome of all flights.
ASA Fair-Weather Flying: A series of short courses in a wide variety of aviation subjects of interest to all pilots who want to improve their flying skills and enjoyment. Taylor covers these topics with his own brand of insight.
ASA Global Navigation for Pilots: Presents background needed to learn international and oceanic operations.
ASA Positive Flying: This book tells why and how &flying by the numbers& works, and gives the flight-tested numbers for precision performance in 27 of America's favorite small aircraft.
ASA Skydancing: Aerobatic Flight Techniques: Covers all the basic aerobatic moves and much more, with easy to follow instructions and diagrams.
ASA Test Pilot: 1,001 Things You Thought You Knew About Aviation: Barry Schiff’s latest work compiles fascinating material from his AOPA Pilot magazine monthly quiz column into one book for a riveting volume that will keep you reading.
ASA The Art of Flying: Through his experience and the best research in aerodynamics, meteorology, and accident prevention, Robert Buck reviews the keys to master each phase of a flight.
ASA The Proficient Pilot, Volume 1: Outstanding for its clarity and readability, this book covers such diverse topics as slip tips, takeoff techniques, crosswind landings, scud running, flying the ILS, emergency tactics, and multi-engine flying.
ASA The Proficient Pilot, Volume 2: The author shares his tricks of the trade for handling a variety of system failures and emergenices in clear and easy to read text, with helpful drawings and diagrams throughout.
ASA The Proficient Pilot, Volume 3: Flying Wisdom: The latest in Schiff's series goes even beyond the wealth of flying know-how readers gained from The Proficient Pilot, Volumes 1 and 2.
ASA Proficient Pilot Gift Set: Barry Schiff's Proficient Pilot Series (Volume 1, 2 and 3) available in a gift set.
ASA Tips to Fly By: Veteran pilot Dick Collins draws on his extensive pilot-in-command experience at the controls of virtually all types of light aircraft.
ASA Understanding Flying: This book deals with the principles of flight and the operations associated with flying, as they apply to practical matters in the cockpit.
ASA Water Flying Concepts, Second Edition: This book is a long-time industry standard written for the pilot who has read the “How to” books but would like to know more.