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Artful Flying Wins
Colorado Independent Publisher's Association
EVVY Award!
With a record 106 entries, Artful Flying won second place in the "How To" category of the 2006 Colorado Independent Publisher's Association Book Awards.
This book just keeps impressing both judges and pilots alike!
Artful Flying is
Aero-News Network's
Product of the Year!
“The book takes a fresh approach to the subject matter, is a delight to read, never gets dragged down by the necessary details, and is "artfully" written by a guy who is very comfortable (and respectful) with the written word. It's a heckuva good read and a MUST for every aviator's bookshelf. "Artful FLYING" is the best aviation book we read in 2005... bar none.”
Jim Cambell
Editor-in-Chief
Aero-News Network
Read what a few other pilots think of Artful Flying:
“All my life, I’ve simply challenged myself to fly more precisely each time I step into the cockpit. Artful Flying shows you ways to challenge yourself, giving you the tools to make your flying a work of art, whether you fly a famous P-51 or a simple Cub. This book could change your life.”
Bob Hoover
Aviation Legend
Inductee, National Aviation Hall of Fame
“This is a great book—and it’s different from any aviation book out there. Parts of it remind me of Richard Bach’s writing, other parts have the steady wisdom of Richard L. Collins. Flying artfully is one of my highest personal goals and Michael Maya Charles, with Artful Flying, shows you how to make it one of yours.”
Patty Wagstaff
Three-time U.S. National Aerobatic Champion
Inductee, National Aviation Hall of Fame
"Your book is fabulous! I had an opportunity to dive into it yesterday. Artful Flying gives lessons for life as much as flying. Participate with passion and joy, strive to become the master of yourself and your machine, and you will reap untold happiness and satisfaction.
Michael, you have a rare gift. Thanks for applying it so well."
John King
King Schools, Inc.
www.kingschools.com
"Charles explores flying from a dramatically different perspective than the dry, rote push-the-stick-here or do-this-before-you-do-that vision taken up by so many texts. You won’t find mathematical models for lift or explicit decision trees in Artful Flying.
Instead, you’ll be greeted by a philosophy that embraces flying for flying’s sake, and advances the notion that manipulation of a great machine can, indeed, be artful.
Artful Flying, if you let it, will make you a better pilot."
Marc Cook
Editor-in-Chief
Kitplanes Magazine
"The book is layered with many examples that feature beginning students to experienced aviators, flying gliders to rotorcraft and sport airplanes to heavy jets. (Artful FLYING) makes a fantastic addition to the repertoire of any pilot who wishes to do more than just get by."
Julie K. Boatman
Technical Editor
AOPA PILOT Magazine
AOPA Flight Training Magazine
"Artful Flying offers 325 pages of smooth, easy-reading prose that not only made me think about my flying—it inspires me to fly and exercise my beginner’s mind. At $34.95 (from www.artfulpublishing.com), it’s a sound investment for any pilot, and it’ll pay dividends into the future because like Stick and Rudder, I’ll reread every year, just before the flying season starts, to start my annual recurrent training."
Scott M. Spangler
Editor in Chief
EAA Sport Aviation
The book’s charm is that it is subtle, and so are its lessons. Charles draws on his own experiences and the experiences of many other pilots to help you wake up and really see what flying aircraft can be if you practice to the point that moves you way past memorization and mechanical flying to a place where your flying is integral, intuitive, and smooth. A little Zen? Definitely. Right-brained? For sure. Full of truths about aviation? Yep, this book’s got all that, and more.
Amy Laboda
Contributing Editor
EAA Sport Aviation
"It is rare when an author can take a technical subject like flying and infuse it with such clarity and passion. This work skillfully blends years of aviation experience, with a touch of Eastern philosophy and a lot of common sense. The result is a provocative essay that takes the insightful reader on a journey of introspection; primarily in their approach to flying, but easily extended to their approach to life".
Joe Romson MD, PhD
Private pilot
"In Artful Flying, Charles utilizes an avant-garde narrative that pushes the threshold of the pilot's psyche to unrealized potential."
Trevor Martin
Airport Journals
"I got my book yesterday. The book itself is of high quality and will look good on the bookshelf. The online ordering system worked flawlessly and delivery was prompt - faster than stated when the order was placed. An email announced fom Artful Publishing confirmed both the order and it also announced that the book had been shipped. The fact that the book was autographed was a great bonus - hurry and order the book if you want an autograph - I get the feeling after reading the first 50 pages last night that the book will gain momentum and will sell many copies making autographed copies harder to come by in the future."
Jim Alsup
Private Pilot
Mission, KS
"What a great feast! In my opinion it is right up there with Stick & Rudder. Although the book is something you want to devour in one sitting, its best to savor a bite (chapter) at a time. And then ponder the thoughts it provokes. I will refer to it often in the future."
John Chmiel
Flight School Manager
Wisconsin
"A wonderful book. Michael smoothly shares his 20,000 hours in the
cockpit and a lifetime of learning about beginner's mind, awareness,
flow, perfection and flying. These things we all wonder about, but
almost nobody has successfully transferred into words. Now we have some
words."
Dave English
Airline Pilot
Editor of the best-selling "Slipping The Surly Bonds:
Great Quotations on Flight" www.Skygod.com
"You've done a wonderful job. I know all the work that went into
the conceptualization, the organization of your concept, and the expression of
it in each well-wrought sentence. "Awareness" is especially well done, and no
doubt I will feel the same way about each succeeding chapter.
This book relates directly to why I fly, and the way in which I want to always fly. It is pleasurable and fulfilling to try (continually) to do something really well.
I hope it becomes a classic."
Russ Munson
Professional photographer & writer
Husky owner
New York, NY
"Thank you for writing a book that truly sticks out of the bulk of
aviation books, I've already begun reading quite a few books about
aviation in order to become the best pilot I possibly can be.
Now I think I found THE book, the kind of book I've been searching for
some time, the ultimate guideline...on how to become an artist of the sky and a
masterful pilot. It gives me a whole new point of view on flying."
Max Huberty
Student pilot
Luxembourg
"I finished reading your book last night, and I wanted to convey my thanks for putting the concept of Artful Flying on paper for the rest of us to share.
Your book now resides on a special shelf in my library, sharing space with a book
by Richard Bach about a certain seagull who was also passionate about Artful Flying."
Thanks again,
Rymann Winter
Creative Director
Beverly Hills, CA
"Your book is incredible! It instills thoughts and feelings I had long ago suppressed, thinking that no one would understand how I felt. I think the closest I ever came to this euphoria was reading Richard Bach's book, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, in the olden days of my flying career.
This book hits it right on the head: Are you ready to learn? Is it time for you to read this book, as a student of aviation? Have you positioned yourself for further learning and excitement? What glory and tingling of the toes awaits those, who are ready to expand their horizons with this book. It is an eye opener, to say the least.
It's tough to put the book down, when you know you have to go do something, like go to sleep for the night, and get up the next day."
Randy Schneider
Co-Owner Randolph Aviation
I enjoyed every page. It's a rare treat to read about all those little things you suspected only you were aware of. Or better yet, to find words, thought and structure given to those little unspoken ideas and nuances half formed in shadows of our Aviator's brain. Best of all you've given me a name for beginner's mind.
I know I wasn't the only one who rode my bike to the local airport every chance I got as a kid. Or devoutly read Dick Bach's "A Gift of Wings" and "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" in seventh grade and just knew.
Thank you for giving my thoughts words and my practice renewed focus.
Dan Johnson
Airline Pilot
I have read your book and I love it! Great job! I identified with "beginners mind" and "relaxed awareness" and the value of practice. I, like you, believe in creating a relaxed, friendly, but very professional atmosphere in the cockpit. I like the concept of a pilot being engaged in a "professional practice."
Again, well done, Michael. Thanks to you, my next flight and all future flights will be more Artful.
Ken Hoffman, Chairman
National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI)
I really enjoyed the book! I have a friend (student pilot) who ordered it and she is reading it also! I couldn't put the book down. You opened up my eyes and you are right about enjoying and cherishing every (flying) moment and doing it wisely.
Thank you,
Angelo A. Vecchiarelli
Commercial, Instrument, Multi-rated, tail-dragger with 850 hours
Inspiring, helpful, life-changing. Your book has motivated me to set new and higher goals and WHY I should. The WHY is the most important part... its the part I had missed. Thank you for waking me up.
Ron Tyler
Private Pilot working on Instrument Rating
Your book, "Artful Flying" is the finest, most interesting and valuable book I have ever read on flying style, quality and personal attitude thereof. I have recommended the book to my flying friends and instructors. Artful Flying has helped me toward my efforts toward becoming a "Class Act" pilot. I shall read it again and again.
Lawrence Cohn
New Mexico
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