Unusual Attitudes: Obsessions and confessions of a lady pilot

In Unusual Attitudes, Martha Lunken has collected her favorite columns from Flying Magazine to share with a wider audience. The stories chronicle Martha’s rich life in aviation and are peopled with an assortment of unforgettable aviation characters. Often funny, sometimes irreverent, always personal, the stories in Unusual Attitudes will resonate with everyone who loves airplanes. Filled with Martha’s adventures and misadventures, Unusual Attitudes enables readers to accompany her as she flies a variety of popular and not-so-popular aircraft. From her tales as an FAA examiner to her experience operating Miss Martha’s Flying School to unforgettable flights with whom Martha calls her “forever friends” in aviation, she shares it all with you. Interspersed with the stories is some real-life advice from Martha, valuable to those who interact with flight instructors, the FAA, and other airplane owners and pilots. Her opinions may anger you; these stories may make you laugh or cry, but each chapter of Unusual Attitudes is filled with the passion that Martha brings to her flying.Whether you read the chapters in order or skip around for a favorite, readers will always be entertained as Martha spins another tale and draws you into her aviation life. Unusual Attitudes shows why Martha Lunken is one of aviation’s most popular columnists, sure to be appreciated by those whose enjoy reading, and re-reading, a great airplane story.