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Postflight: An Old Pilot's Logbook
Do you want a long, satisfying career in the sky? Good, because that's what I want for you, and why I wrote this book. Let me give you wisdom that only fifty years in the cockpit can offer. POSTFLIGHT has tips and information I wish I had when I started flying fifty years ago. If your dream is to fly then An Old Pilot's Logbook was written for you. I'll only ask be the best pilot you can be, and someday open your own logbook for a young pilot like yourself. -An old pilot
288 pages, Hardcover
Published July 1, 2021
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About the author
Byron Edgington
16 books9 followersByron Edgington is the author of the recently published, A Vietnam Anthem available on Amazon & for Kindle. A Vietnam Anthem is the other side of the war, how it shaped the author in ways good and bad, making him the man he is today.
Edgington is also the author of The Sky Behind Me, a memoir based on his career in aviation, and his unique perspective on life from his seat in the sky. TSBM is also available on Amazon in paperback & digital editions.
Edgington capped a forty-year aviation career in 2005 to return to college and to write. He earned his Bachelors in English from The Ohio State University in June 2012 at age 63. His flying experience includes 12,500 hours of logged helicopter time in twenty different military and commercial aircraft, corporate, ENG, charter and tour flying. In twenty years of Air Medical aviation he flew 3,200 patient missions. A Vietnam veteran with 1,100 combat hours, Edgington’s military decorations include the Vietnam campaign medal, VN Service, Air Medal with 24 oak leaf clusters, Bronze Star, and the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Publication credits include the non-fiction essay titled ‘Lift Off,’ winner of The Bailey Prize offered by the Swedenborg Foundation Press. ‘Lift Off’ appears in the 2012 edition of The Chrysalis Reader. Other credits include 'After the Rain' in Gemini Magazine, and 'What they don’t tell you about returning to college at 62' in The Evening Street Review. An essay titled 'Body Language' received a special mention from Anderbo, and the fiction piece 'A War Story' recently received an honorable mention from Glimmer Train. The current issue of Penduline Press contains a fiction piece titled 'Baggage.'
Edgington’s work in progress includes a novel, 'Waiting for Willie Pete: A Helicopter Novel of Vietnam, and 'The Plowman & The Pilot, a Boy Writes About His Father.'
Byron Edgington is married to his best friend, Mariah. He has three beautiful daughters, and three delightful grandkids. He lives and writes on the side of a volcano in Western Panama, and he truly believes that life is too short to be a passenger.
Edgington is also the author of The Sky Behind Me, a memoir based on his career in aviation, and his unique perspective on life from his seat in the sky. TSBM is also available on Amazon in paperback & digital editions.
Edgington capped a forty-year aviation career in 2005 to return to college and to write. He earned his Bachelors in English from The Ohio State University in June 2012 at age 63. His flying experience includes 12,500 hours of logged helicopter time in twenty different military and commercial aircraft, corporate, ENG, charter and tour flying. In twenty years of Air Medical aviation he flew 3,200 patient missions. A Vietnam veteran with 1,100 combat hours, Edgington’s military decorations include the Vietnam campaign medal, VN Service, Air Medal with 24 oak leaf clusters, Bronze Star, and the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Publication credits include the non-fiction essay titled ‘Lift Off,’ winner of The Bailey Prize offered by the Swedenborg Foundation Press. ‘Lift Off’ appears in the 2012 edition of The Chrysalis Reader. Other credits include 'After the Rain' in Gemini Magazine, and 'What they don’t tell you about returning to college at 62' in The Evening Street Review. An essay titled 'Body Language' received a special mention from Anderbo, and the fiction piece 'A War Story' recently received an honorable mention from Glimmer Train. The current issue of Penduline Press contains a fiction piece titled 'Baggage.'
Edgington’s work in progress includes a novel, 'Waiting for Willie Pete: A Helicopter Novel of Vietnam, and 'The Plowman & The Pilot, a Boy Writes About His Father.'
Byron Edgington is married to his best friend, Mariah. He has three beautiful daughters, and three delightful grandkids. He lives and writes on the side of a volcano in Western Panama, and he truly believes that life is too short to be a passenger.
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July 14, 2021
A cockpit eye view of life in the air!
Everyone wants to fly. If you believe that flying is your calling, then this is a must read book. Take the glitz off the image and uncover what being a pilot really requires. Edgington's experience straddles military, civilian, medical, and business aviation. Retiring after forty years and 12,500 hours of incident-free, accident-free, violation-free flying, he has stories to tell as he helps you discover pathways to flight and the realities of getting there.
DISCLOSURE: I was a pre-publication reader of this book.
Everyone wants to fly. If you believe that flying is your calling, then this is a must read book. Take the glitz off the image and uncover what being a pilot really requires. Edgington's experience straddles military, civilian, medical, and business aviation. Retiring after forty years and 12,500 hours of incident-free, accident-free, violation-free flying, he has stories to tell as he helps you discover pathways to flight and the realities of getting there.
DISCLOSURE: I was a pre-publication reader of this book.
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