Continuing Education
There’s lots of ways to continue your education as a pilot — for as long as you fly. In this section, we include books, articles and websites that we’ve found informational for ourselves or our pilots. Many flying books are fun reads in addition to being educational.
Over time, we’ll continue to update this section with new content and industry updates.
Recommended Reading
Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying
This aviation classic is perhaps one of the most practical flying books ever written.
Fate Is The Hunter
Another classic which describes the life of an airmail pilot during the pioneering days of flight.
Night Flight
The story of life as a mail pilot as told by aviation pioneer and writer Antoine De Saint-Exupery.
Flight of Passage
This book follows the 1966 transcontinental journey of two teenage boys who set the record for the youngest duo to fly across America.
To Fly and Fight: Memoirs of a Triple Ace
The autobiography of the man who Chuck Yeager called “the best fighter pilot I ever saw”.
Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds
The life of WWII Ace and larger-than-life fighter pilot Robin Olds.
A Higher Call
Over WWII Europe, a moment of fraternity by enemy pilots changes their lives forever.
North Star Over My Shoulder
Follow the life and career of Bob Buck, who started flying in the pioneering days of aviation, and retired as a 747 captain.
Boyd
Boyd was a fighter pilot and military strategist whose contributions have had wide-reaching effects.