Hi all
Just brushing up on some *ahem* random reading in the 'Ace the Technical Pilot Interview' book and I have to warn anyone on here thinking of buying it, that the bloke who wrote it doesn't appear to know his @rse from his elbow.
Only a few pages in and the author has already tried to explain to me that
- The lift equation = 1/2rho + Vsquared + S + Cl
- Dutch roll is perpetuated by the upward going wing STALLING and losing all its lift and then dropping
- it's better to lose your UPWIND engine in a max crosswind takeoff
What a useless publication, in fact it is worse than useless because you start to wonder if your understanding was wrong and then you have to go and check, and ask all your mates, and by the time you've decided you were right all along you've wasted a whole load of time.
I don't know whether I should read more of this book and maybe fill my head with wrong information, or keep reading it to try and pull some useful gen from amongst all the dodgy stuff. If I find any others I'll post them here, does anyone else have this book and can point out any extra clangers they've spotted?