The Sky Behind Me 2nd Edition, Extended Downwind

By Byron Edgington

The Sky Behind Me 2nd Edition, Extended Downwind is a republication of my popular aviation memoir, with an added chapter on Crew Resource Management. TSBM is based on my forty year career in a helicopter cockpit. I flew all over the world, having all kinds of adventures from a year of combat flying in Vietnam to herding bears in Alaska, spotting tuna in the Pacific Ocean, counting power poles in Ohio and much more. I flew more than 3,000 emergency medical patients in Iowa, and finished my career flying 2,500 tours of the Hawaiian Island of Kauai. My 'extended downwind' is a new career teaching Crew Resource Management to aviation operators and crews all over America.
TSBM is a ripping good aviation tale, and testimonials are always welcome.
Thank you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Byron Edgington
• Release date: Jun 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9780996447119

Byron Edgington

A retired commercial pilot, I returned to college late and earned my BA in English from The Ohio State University in 2012 at age 63. Also in 2012, my essay titled 'Lift Off' won the Bailey Prize for prose. Lift Off is in the 2012 edition of The Chrysalis Reader, a story of my return to Ohio to care for my dying father. Other publication credits and works in progress are listed on my website. www.byronedgington.com.I'm married to my best friend, Mariah, who happens to be my best editor, too. We have three daughters, and five grandkids. My writing centers on a life in the sky, the place I made my living, and where I found serenity, safety and spiritual fulfillment. Aviation also paid the rent & kept the lights on. I live and write, for now, in Iowa City Iowa.

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