As The Pro Flies - 1959 aviation guide

"This book stresses the fine points of aviation -- points that can make your flights more efficient, less fatiguing and, abovee all, safer. From As The Pro Flies you can learn such vitally important tricks of flying as: * How to use both human senses and mechanical aids to avoid stalls * The preferred technique to use in a GCA approach * Easy ways to compute approach speeds * When and how to use carburetor heat in combating ice * How to use the contour lines of an aeronautical chart to find your location * Why precision take-offs are easier on you and your plane's tires * Why it helps to cover the cockpit lights with red cellophane in night flying * How 'scanning the instruments systematically' makes instrument flying easier..." - As the Pro Flies: Flying expertly, in a Professional Manner - John R. Hoyt. Technical illustrations by Mary N. Hoyt. Cartoons by Mel Lazarus. Published 1959, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. New York Hardcover. Approx. 6x8.5in. 272pp. Tears and chunks missing from dust-jacket. Heavy foxing on top edge (see photo). Book is otherwise in sound structural condition.