The Killing Zone, 2nd Edition

How and Why Pilots Die

De: Paul A. Craig

Narrado por: David Marantz

This survival guide for new pilots identifies the pitfalls waiting inside the killing zone, the period from 50 to 350 flight hours when they leave their instructors behind and fly as pilot in command for the first time. Although they're privately certified, many of these unseasoned aviators are unaware of the potential accidents that lie ahead while trying to build decision-making skills on their own - many times falling victim to inexperience.

Based on the first in-depth scientific study of pilot behavior and general aviation flying accidents in over 20 years, The Killing Zone, 2nd Edition offers practical advice to help identify the time frame in which you are most likely to die. Aviation specialist Paul Craig offers rare insights into the special risks new pilots face and includes updated preventive strategies for flying through the killing zone...alive:

• New to the 2nd Edition: Dealing with Glass Cockpits; GPS Moving Maps; Collision Avoidance Systems
• Alerts you to the 12 mistakes likely to kill you
• Provides guidelines for avoiding, evading, diverting, correcting, and managing dangers
• Includes a "Pilot Personality Self-Assessment Exercise" for an individualized survival strategy

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Good book. Bad narrator.

The content of the book is top notch. Gives good insight into what kills most inexperienced pilots. I had a hard time with the narrator. He had a very bland and robotic delivery.

Mandatory for ALL Pilots

I don’t care if you’re a student pilot or a seasoned veteran with tens of thousands of hours…if you haven’t read this book you’re doing yourself a disservice.

WELL DONE

A very informative work that all pilots who seek to improve their flying safety should consider.

Should probably be required reading

It is a bit dry, but if every new pilot read this it would save a lot of carnage. I have had my ticket for more than 40 years and I found it VERY useful--and fascinating in an odd way.

Should be periodic mandatory reading for pilots

A couple of reviewers have complained about the statistics - and they might be right - but, as a pilot, everything this warns against and all the ways in which pilots can, by preflight or inflight attention, absolutely eliminate, or by education practice alleviate are 100% of dead right.

When I listened to this, I could hear my instructor(s) pounding each message into my ears as I had worked towards my licence and endorsements.

Once you’ve qualified, unless and until you have an accident, no one ever does this to you again - even in the biennial flight reviews the emphasis is on practical flying and legislative changes.

I suspect that most private pilots who don’t plan to go commercial, fly relatively rarely. I am not amongst these pilots - I own a plane which is hangared directly behind my house (I fly from a strip in the NE paddock) and consequently, if I wake up to a nice morning, I can and do go flying - whether I plan a long trip to meet friends or take someone for a spin is really a function of how good the longer term weather forecasts were - if the good weather is less expected I just take myself up for fun.

I’m always well current in VFR, legally speaking. It is a rare week I don’t fly at least one day, a little less in winter.

The truth is, though, if I’ve just been up for a range of short flights recently, I specifically lack practice in standard landings - my home strip is grass, short and very steep (10 degrees) - in winter, especially, I often don’t land on a horizontal runway for a couple of months at a time - my home strip requires short/soft field technique and my habit is (strong crosswinds apart) to use modified short-field techniques everywhere I go. I’m rethinking that as a consequence of listening and plan a visit to my old instructor to discuss.

I’m very pleased to have had the refresher. There was some stuff I had never heard (not all that much, in fact) but a whole raft of stuff that had slipped into the back of my mind. I plan to make listening to the book a part of my personal “biennial” and link it t9 my flight review and medical.

Great listen for any stage pilot!

This book is filled with valuable information on decision making and situational awareness. From the beginning student to your commercial pilot this book is a must listen for anyone involved in aviation!

toms of useful info

It sounds to be narrated by a computer bot. Not ideal. Because of this it lacks personality

Very useful info. for Pilots.

A great book on how to not kill yourself in an airplane. There is really nothing in here you haven't heard in flight school, but the real world examples that go with the lessons taught in the book easily make it worth a listen. If you are a pilot who doesn't want to die in an airplane, read this book.

Very effective message

I got this book to learn some lessons from other people’s expensive Miata and I feel like I surely did. It is very morbid and I had to take it in parts because the focus is unfortunately on fatal mistakes.

Must read for every pilot

I heard many expressions in this book that had been echoed by my CFI’s. I learned a tremendous amount