The guide, which aligns with the Airman Certification Standards (ACS), contains new and expanded content on multiengine operations, aerodynamics, inoperative engine procedures, aircraft systems, maneuvers, and instruction. Additional checklists, briefing guidelines, and resources for understanding aircraft performance, limitations, and minimum equipment lists help prepare applicants for the FAA Airplane Multiengine Land checkride, according to ASA officials.
Books
New Book Offers 91 Lessons From Experimental Aircraft Pilots
“91 Lessons From The Sky: Experimental Aircraft” by Fletcher McKenzie offers survival stories from pilots who lived to tell them. Drawn from NTSB reports and first-hand accounts, this new book highlights the risks and decisions that define safer flying for experimental and homebuilt aircraft pilots.
Why Fly
A new book “Why Fly: Seeking Awe, Healing and Our True Selves in the Sky” has been released by Bloomsbury Publishing.
Smuggler’s Flight Published
Author Chuck Stewart passed away before the book’s publication, but his children completed the project to share the story of a pilot who saw himself as a “white hat smuggler” operating by a personal moral code.
The Killing Zone Updated
In the book author Paul Craig leverages his knowledge as a flight instructor and researcher to analyze National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) accident reports with the goal of helping prevent accidents that injure or kill pilots and their passengers. His examination of 40 years of accident data found that pilots are at the greatest risk of being involved in an airplane accident when they have between 50 and 350 flight hours — what he calls the Killing Zone.
A Pilot’s Guide to Risk and Judgment published
The new book examines how judgment can be developed in a general aviation pilot through experience, and how combining risk assessment, applied situational awareness, and scenario-based training can enhance general aviation safety.
New book about a summer adventure in a Cub released
Octane Press has released “Landings in America — Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub” by Peter Egan.
How Not to Fly an Airplane
What would you do if you were mid-air and suddenly realized you were flying a plane without engine oil? Pilot and author Shirley M. Phillips tells what she did in her new memoir, “How Not To Fly An Airplane.”
New Charles Lindbergh biography released
Released on May 21, 2025, to coincide with the 98th anniversary of Lindbergh’s historic transatlantic flight, “The Enigmatic Aviator: Charles Lindbergh, Revisited,” attempts to set the record straight on Lindbergh, best remembered for his famous solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927 and the kidnapping and murder of his 20-month-old son in 1932.