Great introspective book on flying a Cessna from US to South America

[jsmirand]

Recently finished reading a book I really enjoyed by Barbara Rowell (Flying South: A Pilot's Inner Journey) documenting her 25k mile journey on her Cessna from California down to and across South America. I found her writing on how events shook her confidence as a pilot and how she regained that confidence really interesting.

Also, her coverage on how quickly things can go downhill once a pilot gets shaken is an eye opener (she had a vacuum pump failure above IFR conditions). Sadly, and ironically, she and her husband died this August in a dual prop chartered plane (not flown by her) as it was on final (2 miles from the runway) to their home in Bishop, California.

Anyways, link below:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...books&n=507846

[toddrf]

I just made an interlibrary loan request for this book. I am looking forward to it.

Todd :-wave

[Wichita]

Next time your down at the library see if the have Around the World in Eight Days. Its about the ATW trip of Wiley Post and Harold Gatty in 1931. No GPS,no VOR nav in those days. Its an interesting book and then Post did the whole trip in 1935 by himself in less time using a crude(by todays standards) Autopilot made by Sperry for his Lockheed.

David











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