Aircraft Performance books
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Aircraft Performance, Theory and Practice - Martin Eshelby
An excellent work, unpolluted by the fixations of the CAA and JAA examiners.
An excellent work, unpolluted by the fixations of the CAA and JAA examiners.
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Thanks for the link - much appreciated.
Can anyone offer an opinion on how the above book rates compared to Swatton's "Aircraft Performance Theory for Pilots"?
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Can anyone offer an opinion on how the above book rates compared to Swatton's "Aircraft Performance Theory for Pilots"?
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They are both excellent books, but trying to achieve rather different things.
Simplistically, Swatton is summarising the regulations and their applications in reality as a professional pilot or a planning engineer needs to understand them. It does this extremely well.
Eshelby on the other hand is not really writing a book (in my opinion) for pilots, but for Engineers. If you have a deeply (A-level +) mathematical bent and are fascinated by how the various mechanisms work (or need to derive aircraft performance data from basic data or principles on a regular basis) then this is the book for you.
I'd say they're the two of the best books on my shelf concerning aircraft performance (far from the only ones I should say) but aimed at different audiences.
(My other favourite by the way is "Introduction to aircraft performance, selection and design" by Francis Hale, but it's out of print I think, and aimed at a third audience - those doing design studies for new or modified aeroplanes.
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Simplistically, Swatton is summarising the regulations and their applications in reality as a professional pilot or a planning engineer needs to understand them. It does this extremely well.
Eshelby on the other hand is not really writing a book (in my opinion) for pilots, but for Engineers. If you have a deeply (A-level +) mathematical bent and are fascinated by how the various mechanisms work (or need to derive aircraft performance data from basic data or principles on a regular basis) then this is the book for you.
I'd say they're the two of the best books on my shelf concerning aircraft performance (far from the only ones I should say) but aimed at different audiences.
(My other favourite by the way is "Introduction to aircraft performance, selection and design" by Francis Hale, but it's out of print I think, and aimed at a third audience - those doing design studies for new or modified aeroplanes.
G
