The bestselling author Patrick Smith talks about his new book Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel, Questions, Answers and Reflections (Sourcebooks, 2018), his work as a pilot and more, with Joseph Planta.

Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel, Questions, Answers and Reflections by Patrick Smith (Sourcebooks, 2018). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: Cockpit Confidential

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, at TheCommentary.ca.

Ask the Pilot is one of the more popular websites online, where Patrick Smith, a pilot and travel writer answers questions we all have on travel, planes and more. He’s updated his New York Times bestseller with a new edition that looks at what makes travel so confounding and uncomfortable, what could be done to improve it, and he does a marvelous job at taking us into the cockpit as to how planes fly. The book is called Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel, Questions, Answers and Reflections. It’s such a good book; one you can’t easily put down. Patrick Smith is an airline pilot, air travel writer, and the host of www.askthepilot.com. The book is published by Sourcebooks. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line, from Somerville, Massachusetts, Patrick Smith; Mr. Smith, good morning.

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