Globe and Mail Travel reviews From the Flight Deck

Airplane landings are like golf shots, says pilot Doug Morris: Sometimes you want a mulligan. In his new book, From the Flight Deck: Plane Talk and Sky Science (ECW Press, $18.95), Morris, an Air Canada pilot, flight instructor, meteorologist and general airplane guru, offers an easy-to-digest guide to commercial air travel. Reviewing everything from the physics of landings and the six types of turbulence to treating jet lag, the author discusses air travel through first-hand accounts, breaking up the detail with entertaining anecdotes and trivia. For instance, a Honda Civic can drive around the world 80 times on the same amount of fuel needed to fly a Boeing 767 from Toronto to Hong Kong.

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