Originally Posted by
Rainboe
All these years....has anybody beaten DP Davies' 'Handling the Big Jets'? Wonderful. Pray 2 minutes silence.
Well - ... I hear what you're saying, but cannot chime in your praises of Deepy Davies (is this a pornstar's name anyway?). Sorry, off topic, and he might be a good pilot and wonderful writer and did a good job in the 70ies, but this book has some major setbacks:
1. He constantly confuses jet aircraft with turbine aircraft (this book has been written before the age of fast turboprops).
2. He writes about technology of the last century which honestly is worth no dime. Aircraft he discribes are purely mechanical.
3. He is one of the founder of the legend that everything that has a propeller is inferior and thus the pilots in it worthless. That's why so many guys on a turboprop don't get a job nowadays. Today's jets are way easier to fly than a turboprop or even an old piston airliner.
Sorry for the rant, but I'm also in the process of re-reading it and have my crisis' from time to time.
Dani