Rod Machado's New PPL Manual

Margy Natalie wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote:
Cecil E. Chapman wrote:

Thought I'd poke my head into this post.... Rod's book is a fine
one,,,, and his Instrument Pilot manual (the version intended to
fully prepare an instrument pilot,,, not his first instrument
publication which was only intended as a supplement only to other
books and training) are books I don't hesitate to recommend. He
really hangs a little too long with his water analogy of electricity
(i.e., I think at some point he could use his analogy to transition
the reader into a working understanding of electrical current).


Ohm my!! Watt did you say? Shocking; simply shocking!! :-))

Explaining electricity to the layman can indeed be a true test of
one's ability to improvise with explanation. Even today, after years
of dealing with this wonder of science, I STILL find electricity
fascinating and interesting.
The water analogy has been around a while for sure. Personally I
prefer the pool balls in the pipe :-))


Funny, Ron tells stories of when he and a friend were in firefighting
training (both EE's) and after a while they looked at each other and
jokingly said "hey, it's just like electricity!".

Margy

Our son, also an EE, likes the hose analogy too.

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Dudley Henriques

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:28:44 GMT, Cecil E. Chapman wrote:

Thought I'd poke my head into this post.... Rod's book is a fine one,,,,
and his Instrument Pilot manual (the version intended to fully prepare an
instrument pilot,,, not his first instrument publication which was only
intended as a supplement only to other books and training) are books I don't
hesitate to recommend. He really hangs a little too long with his water
analogy of electricity (i.e., I think at some point he could use his analogy
to transition the reader into a working understanding of electrical
current). Aside from the latter,,, fine book! It's in my library!

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Cecil E. Chapman

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Commercial Pilot, ASEL - Instrument Rated
Reid-Hillview Airport, San Jose, California

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Nice work on the website, thx for the link.

On Apr 2, 3:02 am, WJRFlyBoy wrote:

Nice work on the website, thx for the link.

lemme kiss your azz just a widdle bit more, please???

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 04:55:13 -0700 (PDT), Dan wrote:

lemme kiss your azz just a widdle bit more, please???

http://tinyurl.com/2fxzee
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Of course you do, My Little Trick Pony.
And yes, once again, that *IS* your ass I handed you and
that *IS* your HAT too.

On Apr 2, 12:35 pm, WJRFlyBoy wrote:
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 04:55:13 -0700 (PDT), Dan wrote:
lemme kiss your azz just a widdle bit more, please???

http://tinyurl.com/2fxzee
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Of course you do, My Little Trick Pony.
And yes, once again, that *IS* your ass I handed you and
that *IS* your HAT too.

::YAWN::

yeahrighwhahatever, fakeflyboy