Captain Carlson's Airplane Talk: The Complete Book of Vfr and Ifr Communications

By Glenn Carlson

For people learning to fly. How to talk on the airplane radio for the beginner just learning to the pro. This book originally was published in 1982 and has been revised 9 times. Includes the new... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0961195401
• ISBN13: 9780961195403
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Aviation Book Co
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

A CFII's Opinion

An excellent book for the student becoming familiar with aviation radio communication.

Critiqe

I picked the book Airplane Talk by Captain Carlson to critique. I chose that book because I think that it is a good book for me to read. The book is basically about radio communications and flying rules that include: traffic patterns, ATC, ATIS, and other kinds of communications. The book is helpful for beginning pilots that are having trouble with communications on the radio. This book is made for pilots and others that are interested in flying. For people interested, it gives them a taste of what its like to be a pilot. For pilots, it reviews basics of communication and some advanced rules. I would not recommend this book to children under 13 or people that are not interested in flying because it has words that a 12 year old will not know. Others will find it boring. They will not understand the words and will find it confusing. The ATC is the most important thing in your whole flying career. They are the people that give you the clearances that you need and they tell you how to get wherever you want to go and even tell you what to do to get there. They basically baby-sit you and all you have to do is follow their directions. The book talks about the ATC a lot. You'll learn a lot from the book. That is why I recommend this book to beginning pilots

Class Project Review

Okay, my name is Nareg Minaskian. I am doing this review because the book was exellent. The book is really good for begining pilots that have trouble communicating with the ATC (air traffic control). It teaches you the principals of communication, what to say, what the ATC wants to know from you and many more. It even reviews what kind of traffic patterns there are, what are the sides of the patterns called and much more. This book I rate it a 5 out of 5 because it tells you everything that you need to know about communications between you and the ATC. The ATC is the most important thing in your whole flying career. They are the people that give you the clearences that you need and they tell you how to get wherever you want to go and even tell you what to do to get there. They basically baby-sit you and all you have to do is follow their directions. Once again, I recommend this book to any student pilots or even people that want to learn how to fly.