When It All Just Begins. Book 1: From Young Pilot to Aircraft Commander

Every day all over the world, civil aviation aircraft perform hundreds of thousands of takeoffs and landings. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, and three hundred and sixty-five days a year—thousands of airliners leave solid ground only to return later, connecting cities, countries, and destinies.

Denis Okan, a civil aviation flight instructor, wrote a book about the main business of his life: “When Everything Is Just Beginning” is a story about the very first steps in the pilot profession. In the book, Denis remembers his studies at the Buguruslan Flight School, the Saint Petersburg Academy of Civil Aviation, and a training center of United Airlines in the USA—his first steps in mastering airplanes such as the An-2, Tu-154, and Boeing 737, and of course memorable flights that happened at the start of his flying career. He shares the intricacies of the flight craft and recalls the path he walked from an inexperienced pilot to becoming an aircraft commander.

You will learn what pilots study and how they prepare for assigned tasks, how flights are carried out along real routes in different weather conditions, how they handle unusual situations, and much more about the everyday life of civil aviation.