Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36467 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 5
• Binding: Paperback
• 324 pages

Customer Reviews

straight forward
Finally a book on air law that you can understand.
This book was a lot easier to get my head round than its competitors

Terrible
One of the worst books I have ever seen.

For example:
The subject "airspace classification" is spread over the whole book. JAA and UK regulations are not compared and the differences worked out, instead the same treatment is repeated in different chapters in identical form. So if you want to know the difference between them the only way to find out is to compare the text line by line. This strange structure also leads to figures appearing up to three times with just minor changes.
Unfortunatly they are not in the same chapter. Danger areas and Prohibited areas are covered in yet another chapter.

Furthermore, the chapter structure is really bad. Some chapters cover more than one subject while others consist of half a page with no new information at all.

But the worst thing is that the book is written as a mixture of law and technical explainations. This would not be that bad if the writing style was uniform. However it is quite irritating that there is just a single line on the what a TMA-airspace is, but about 5 pages on how to avoid wake turbulence. No explainations on when you encounter which airspace during a flight and what procedures are requested by air law. This is somehow mixed into the communications section.

One can clearly see that the author hated to write this book and it probably was not reworked for the JAA edition. It almost seems like the JAA updates were inserted at random positions in seperate chapters so that the existing text did not have to be changed.

Furthermore, the figures, especially the aironautical charts are too small to recognize the context of the features displayed.

All in all: Try to find a better book on "air law" - even it looks like all necessary information is included, it is hard to find it and impossible to learn from it.

Excellent book
Clear, well organised and laid out, intuitive diagrams and text that strikes the right balance between detail and over-burdening density.

For readability, this is much better than Thom.