TSF - The School of Flight - Die Schule des Fliegens

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Books & Ideas

that have shaped „The School of Flight“ in some way

Click 06 — FAA & EASA basics, birds, brains, secrets, sketches, sticks ’n’ rudders >>

Since this is a somewhat unusual ground school, it has been shaped by a quite an unusual range of sources and ideas. Beside the more common basic literature like the FAA´s „Flying Handbook“ and „Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge“ or „Flight Instructors Handbook“, the German classics on the EASA side of things by Winfried Kassera’s „Flug ohne Motor“ or „Ultraleicht Fliegen Lernen“ (LAPL) .. „Motorflug Kompakt“ (PPL) as well as „IFR Kompakt“ for instrument flying .. here are the first two „out of the ordinary“ ones that I will expand on over time .. and a little preview of what’s about to be sketched and commented on ..

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.. And Still To be sketched ..

„Whole Brain Living - The Anatomy of Choice“

by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor turns as complex a thing as the human brain into a space with four characters. Already being a respected neuro-anatomist in her 30s she suffered a major stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain and in this book she brings her experiences of rebuilding basic brain functions, professional expertise and her writing skills together. She organizes the brain into four groups — four very different characters who interact all day. Who’s got the mic? Which one of these fellas inside your head do you want to be? And when?

„Stick and Rudder - An Explanation of the Art of Flying“

by Wolfgang Langewiesche

First published in 1944, in this book American engineer and Cessna (..) test pilot Wolfgang Langewiesche describes the basics of flight and aerodynamics in a compelling way, the planes and training methods of that era, combined with a quite accurate vision of the planes we fly today.

Clouds: How to Identify Nature's Most Fleeting Forms

by Edward Graham (Princeton University Press 2025)

It is, as of this writing, a brand new book. It combines nephology, the study of clouds and cloud formations, with 19th century paintings by Turner, Church, Monet, Van Gogh and Munch to explain to us why the sky looks the way it does (and what that means). Catching my mind off guard I heard myself mumble „this is the best book I have ever read!“ .. that might be a little bit hard to measure: better than what? There are too many great books but I’d still say that, given the subject, you simply couldn’t do it any better. Seeing the abstraction in the painting, feeling the emotion of the artist and being given the scientific information at the same time is a great way of learning and exploring. All in all it is a great idea for a book and it is designed beautifully and the author Edward Graham is a real icon in the field of clouds.