Fuels Books

This book, as I read it, appeared to me to be a mosiac of just snippets and facts that may have been accreted over her publishing career, with perhaps, a most limited appreciation, true feel and understanding of the natural gas and power industry. Translation: not that there has to be a "passion" about this, or any industry, but if she does harbor one, as a genuine interest and concern, regrettably, it did not come across in this book.

My interpretation is as an engineer. But still, and even without such a degree of discerning scrutiny, the author could
have been provided much better checks to copy before it was published. The book's flow is somewhat checkered: It could have been assembled much better with both logic, how it all fits together, full comprehensive scope, and not least - data and charts given. When we look at graphs without telling us what the vertical axis is (no units, but dimensionless numbers of what?), what are we looking at?

For the non-techie, you may get something out of this book. For those that are really not that right-hemisphere and like specifics, keep away; you'll end up somewhat dizzy.

Shame, I expected lots more and it's still a very rich subject area/topic for the right work to pull it all together.

The book is largely a compilation of ASRS and NTSB reports that should prove eye-opening to any aviator who does not as a matter of course access these resources. We can all profit from reviewing these items.

Unfortunately, the book only scratches the surface in deriving lessons learned and developing recommended practices based on the reviewed incidents. In particular, it fails to offer any insight into the intricacies of checklist design or specific techniques for use.

There is no mis-information in this book; a pilot can only benefit from reading it. But we still await an exceptional book on checklist design, application, discipline and implementation.

Frank Van Haste
PP-ASEL

The stories are OK, but not great. I think these characters would make great cartoons, but there is something weird about them that I have not isolated yet - possibly a UK child psychology consultant with different views than me!?!.

I am a native Californian, and I know that Linda Dennis is also from California, but she went way overboard with arcane UK English and slamming the other teams - there are a number of subtle F1 political jabs ala Rocky and Bullwinkle. Maybe this is what kids want, but we are not a Disney based family.

These stories do not keep my 2 year old's interest so far, and even the pictures of the cars arguing and the cars stuck in goo made him say "No like that ..." and "Car fall down ...". These books will go on the shelf for a few years and we will readdress them then.

For the time being, we'll return to normalcy with `Duck on a Bike', the `Runaway Ralph' series, `The Rainbow Fish' and Jay Jay the Jetplane videos.