This book is not an aviation manual. It is a guide, I hope, to help prevent the fear, whether deep-seated or apparent, of flying. My aim is to entertain you and inform you at the same time by sharing my memories, knowledge, emotions, and experiences.

Let’s take off, fly, and land informed about all the phases and stages of a journey. Guided by knowledge, doubts, uncertainties, and fears will give way to certainty, confidence, and joy for air travel and flight.

(. . .) [Excerpt from the introduction text of the edition]