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.
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Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel, Questions, Answers and Reflections by Patrick Smith (Sourcebooks, 2018).
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Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:
I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, at TheCommentary.ca.
Ask the Pilot [2] 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 [2]. 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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