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I've flown with a number of pilots who could have been Skygods and even today I meet one now and then. The first real international airline became the most unsafe and was almost shut down until they got serious about this.

Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am, Robert Gandt Available for $15.

I hope I have written just such a book but for my money, the best on the subject is this one: The best way to learn about CRM is through stories that tell you how badly things are when crews are dysfunctional and how they transform themselves when properly motivated.

We can all sit around a classroom or simulator and agree that the captain should listen and the crew speak up. I list several Crew Resource Management below that are exceptions.

Crew Resource Management - Most books on this subject are poor and I think will actually poison your willingness to really dive into the importance of Crew Resource Management.

General Doolittle's history parallels military aviation in many ways and is remarkable. 'Jimmy' Doolittle This is only available in hardcover for $30.

I Could Never Be So Lucky Again, General James H.

And after you get over that, it will make you grateful for how things have evolved. If you are an instrument pilot, this book will terrify you about how instrument flight got its start. What? Yes, one leads to the next and both help you appreciate where military and commercial aviation came from. If you are a military pilot, you need to read both of these next books.

More History - If you are a commercial pilot, you need to read both of these next books.

If you fly anything that grosses at 20,000 lbs or higher, you should have this book. Davies I am amazed this is still in print, you can buy it new for $47. There are several other books on the Aeronautics / Technical subjects listed below. But the book remains one of the best written on the subjects of momentum, large center of gravity movement, the impact of engine location on flying, low and high speed stability, and asymmetric flight. It was written in awe of early jetliners and that part of it can seem a bit silly these days. These days the rite of passage from medium to large aircraft does not enough stress on the complications introduced by inertia and large mass on aircraft.

Aerodynamics for Large Aircraft - This book taught me what I needed to know to graduate to large aircraft.

This will give you another perspective and an appreciation for how aviation never stays static.

Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtis, and the Battle to Control the Skies, Lawrence Goldstone This is available for around $15.

I think the author was too kind to the Wright Brothers, but I guess that is fitting in what ended up as quite a romantic story.

The Wright Brothers, David McCullough You can buy this for around $10.

Then dive right into the second, because Glen Curtis was a pioneer who deserves to be a household name. I recommend you read about the Wright Brothers first and admire how they got it done but wonder how they lost the initiative. Most of us understand that starts with the Wright Brothers, but there is someone else who had a role to play that ended up being even greater. I do enjoy Biographical books of aviators who have come before us.

Early History - You cannot truly understand aviation without understanding the history of powered flight.

If you see it, I think it is worth having. I've seen this on eBay now and then and it is a nice snapshot of how my generation of pilots learned this stuff.

Aerodynamics for Pilots, USAF Air Training Command Manual 51-3.

Most of one book can be found in the other. I got mine in an Air Force aerodynamic engineering course many years ago and read it before Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators. Dole This one is harder to get, the going price is $76.24.

Flight Theory and Aerodynamics, Charles E.

You don't need all three, in fact, you can only get two of them readily and only the first that I list is easily obtainable: All three spend a fair amount of time dealing with supersonic flight and fighter aviation, but there is lots there for everyone else too.

You may struggle going through any of them from cover-to-cover, but you can digest them a few pages at a time while keeping them as reference as questions come up.

Aerodynamics - If you are already a professional pilot, or you are an aspiring professional pilot, you should have a good book on aerodynamics.

Keeping technical can get wearing, so it is useful to learn from the people who came before us. What a great idea! If I were starting over, looking for the books that I value the most, I think I would blend the aeronautical with the biographical and history.

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