Books

[Lallan]

Please recommended some books for flying tips in both virtual and sim environment. Any from beginner to advance, thanks.

[EtherealN]

Fighter Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering by Robert L Shaw. This is the bible. Obviously it's intended audience is pilots training to be fighter pilots, but it applies to flying fighters in the simulator pretty well. Doesn't go into the deepest details of BVR combat tactics, but it'll still help.

[Krebs20]

Airplane Flying Handbook. FAA-H-8083-3A. <----- Beginner

 

It's published by the faa and gives a lot of usefull information on flight. Also, everything you want to know as a private pilot is contained here.

[MagnumHB]

Airplane Flying Handbook. FAA-H-8083-3A. <----- Beginner

They even have it available for free as PDFs here.

[cichlidfan]

Stick and Rudder by Wolfgang Langewiesche. The basics of flying an airplane.

[Cali]

Viper in the storm

 

Eye of the Viper "the making of an F-16 pilot" by Peter Aleshire http://www.amazon.com/Eye-Viper-Making-F-16-Pilot/dp/1592288227/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333492374&sr=1-1

 

Strike eagles by William L. Smallwood http://www.amazon.com/Strike-Eagle-Flying-F-15E-Warriors/dp/1574888854/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333492407&sr=1-1

[elchacal]

Viper in the storm it's an excellent book!

[aces_full85]

I'm going to third Vipers in the Storm--you can't beat it.

 

I highly recommend, A Lonely Kind of War: Forward Air Controller, Vietnam (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004H8GCQM/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title)

This book really blew my mind and it really showed me what the term "situational awareness" actually means.

 

Another great book is, When Thunder Rolled: An F-105 Pilot over North Vietnam (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004ZZM3GK/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title). The author goes into great detail about his 100 missions over N Vietnam flying a Thunderchief. This one is really fills in the gaps about how packages work together in a hostile environment. The sequel is worth checking out too.

[hassata]

Some of my favorite (though I don't know their value for tips):

 

Samurai. Just astounding.

The Blonde Knight

Stuka Pilot

Chickenhawk

Warthog

Strike Eagle

ED Forums; and of course

Vipers as above.

 

Re Rudel the Stuka pilot from Wiki: "Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions claiming a total of 2,000 targets destroyed; including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, a destroyer, two cruisers, one Soviet battleship, 70 landing craft, 4 armored trains, several bridges and nine aircraft which he shot down."

 

So basically, the guy took out an entire army. His mechanic was no slouch, either. When he saw Rudel shot down, he ran 9 miles into enemy territory and carried him back to base. Take note Paul lol.

 

Re Saburo Sakai from Wiki: "Although in agony from his injuries (he had a serious head wound from a bullet that had passed through his skull and the right side of his brain, leaving the entire left side of his body paralyzed, and was left blind in one eye), Sakai managed to fly his damaged Zero in a four-hour, 47-minute flight over 560 nmi (1,040 km; 640 mi) back to his base on Rabaul, using familiar volcanic peaks as guides. When he attempted to land at the airfield he nearly crashed into a line of parked Zeros but, after circling four times, and with the fuel gauge reading empty, he put his Zero down on the runway on his second attempt. After landing, he insisted on making his mission report to his superior officer before collapsing."

Edited April 5, 2012 by hassata

[IvanK]

"First Light" by Geoffery Wellum. The youngest RAF Fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain. This is a cant put down book. His description of close in fighting (BFM) in WWII fighters is absolutely outstanding.

[Jona33]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Apache-Ed-Macy/dp/0007288174/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1333621000&sr=8-2

 

Apache by Ed Macy.

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hellfire-Ed-Macy/dp/0007288204/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1333621122&sr=8-2

 

Hellfire my Ed Macy. Very good books.

[Cali]

I e-mailed the author of Vipers and wanted to know if he was going to write another book, but this was years ago. I think that was one of the best books I have read. I think I might read it again, since it's been a few years. Also it might help me in BMS :)

[Grayghost02]

Hello everybody. I strongly recommend Vulcan 607 and Phoenix Sqadron, both by Rowlnad White, Apache Dawn by Damien Lewis and Joint Force Harrier by Ade Orchard and James Barrington.