Cockpit Confidential : Everything You Need to Know about Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections

from knightlight777

The book is mainly a compilation of write in questions from regular folks about all topics connected with commercial aviation. Smith comes across as a top notch pilot but also a superb writer with a very readable and straight forward style. He addresses about everything one could ask concerning a...

from yukon92

Great read about airplanes and flying... explained (mostly) in words even everyday readers can understand!

from ChristopherRP

I greatly enjoyed Patrick Smith's "inside" look at commercial airlines, which covered a number of areas of the industry in an interesting and accessible manner. I appreciated this updated version which covers events through 2012, though much of what is in this great read would still be fascinatin...

from drmaf

Absorbing, informative, quirky and hugely entertaining warts & all expose of the airline industry. Smith is a celebrated blogger with a long experience of both the glamourous and decidedly less glamourous sides of the aviation industry, and he answers all the questions that nervous or curious fli...

from TeaTimeCoder

Surprisingly informational for a fluff piece of easy reading. Sounds like a backhanded compliment but I mean it in a positive way. Unfortunately almost half of it is incoherent ramblings that may fit on a blog but not in a book (like an in depth discussion of author's opinions of logos).