You Can Fly!

For the novice pilot or anyone interested in the world of flight, this guide provides crucial preparatory and introductory information as well as beautiful aerial photos. Emphasizing the fun and beauty as well as the technical aspects of flight, You Can Fly! provides information to help those interested in becoming a pilot determine the desired course of training and the necessary materials for flight instruction. With chapters on prerequisites for flight, how to be a good student, and what to do after a pilot's license is obtained, this relaxed yet informative introduction to flight training guides the trainee through critical early processes such as choosing a flight school and post-certificate decisions such as figuring the financial expense of continuing to fly.

Greg Brown writes the Flying Carpet column in AOPA Flight Training magazine and is a contributor to AOPA Pilot. He is the 2000 National Flight Instructor of the Year, winner of the 1999 NATA Excellence in Pilot Training award, and the first NAFI Master Flight Instructor. He is the author of Flying Carpet: The Soul of an Airplane, Job Hunting for Pilots, The Savvy Flight Instructor, and The Turbine Pilot’s Flight Manual. He lives in Foutain Hills, Arizona. Laurel Lippert is a pilot, a freelance writer, and an editor. Her feature stories have appeared in SKI, Snow Country, Sacramento, and Pilot Getaways magazine, where she is editor-at-large. She lives in Truckee, California.