The Pilot's Manual: Access to Flight: Integrated Private and Instrument Curriculum (The Pilot's Manual Series) Illustrated Edition

Designed and tailored towards the Cirrus with Avidyne avionics, this thorough and gorgeous textbook can be used not only for the Private Pilot but also the Instrument Rating.Detailed with colorful diagrams and charts, this textbook is the one source for learning to fly in a Cirrus with Avidyne avionics.

As an instrument pilot currently training in a TAA "Technically Advanced Aircraft" (i.e. glass cockpit aircraft) I was expecting to find new information related to flying and training in this aircraft. The back cover and intro imply that TAA is a big part of the text, however there is very little true mention of specialized techniques for this group of aircraft. Areas I would expected the text to cover included; the tighter instrument scan on a flight display, use of sophisticated moving map displays, integration of flight displays with GPS and route planning, computerized flight planning on TAA display screens, etc. This text is merely a re-hash of two other ASA Pilot's Manuals (the PM 2 Ground School - a private pilot textbook) and (PM 3 Instrument Flying - an instrument rating text) combined together. This is literally the prior mentioned books edited together (identical figures, text, etc) and resold to the public. The point is, if you are pursuing your "instrument rating" you already know the Ground School part (and probably trained for your PPC under the PM 2 book), so at least half of the book is entirely worthless.For what it is worth, I would recommend any of Rod Machado's books on instrument flying instead of this one. Additionally, with respect to TAA information the FAA publication "Instrument Flying Handbook" FAA-H-8083-15A (free in PDF form) is a much better tool for studying instrument flying in glass cockpit flight displays, and partial panel methods and flight display interpretation than this text.I rated this a three out of five because it still contains good information - unless you already own the prior two books that it seems to be reconstituted from (as I obviously do!)