2006-03-05 Terrible

For example:
The subject "airspace classification" is spread over the whole book. JAA and UK regulations are not compared and the differences worked out, instead the same treatment is repeated in different chapters in identical form. So if you want to know the difference between them the only way to find out is to compare the text line by line. This strange structure also leads to figures appearing up to three times with just minor changes.
Unfortunatly they are not in the same chapter. Danger areas and Prohibited areas are covered in yet another chapter.

Furthermore, the chapter structure is really bad. Some chapters cover more than one subject while others consist of half a page with no new information at all.

But the worst thing is that the book is written as a mixture of law and technical explainations. This would not be that bad if the writing style was uniform. However it is quite irritating that there is just a single line on the what a TMA-airspace is, but about 5 pages on how to avoid wake turbulence. No explainations on when you encounter which airspace during a flight and what procedures are requested by air law. This is somehow mixed into the communications section.

One can clearly see that the author hated to write this book and it probably was not reworked for the JAA edition. It almost seems like the JAA updates were inserted at random positions in seperate chapters so that the existing text did not have to be changed.

Furthermore, the figures, especially the aironautical charts are too small to recognize the context of the features displayed.

All in all: Try to find a better book on "air law" - even it looks like all necessary information is included, it is hard to find it and impossible to learn from it.