Textbooks

Updates: Textbooks

Below are updates to textbooks published by ASA. They reflect corrections as well as updates to content that may have been affected by regulation or industry changes since publication. Click on the update date to view the PDF.

Textbook Title Update
8083-1B Aircraft Weight and Balance Handbook November 2025
8083-3C Airplane Flying Handbook November 2025
8083-5 Weight-Shift Control Aircraft Flying Handbook November 2025
8083-25C Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge November 2025
8083-29 Powered Parachute Flying Handbook November 2025
PPT14 The Complete Private Pilot November 2025
OEG-P14 Private Pilot Oral Exam Guide October 2025
PR-LAW8 Practical Aviation and Aerospace Law August 2025
TURB-PLT5 The Turbine Pilot’s Flight Manual May 2025
SEAPLANE An Aviator’s Field Guide to the Seaplane Rating May 2025
FM-CFI-6 The Flight Instructor’s Manual May 2025
8083-28 Aviation Weather Handbook Dec 2024
CUG-16 Aeronautical Chart User's Guide Sept 2024
FM-ADV-9 The Advanced Pilot’s Flight Manual Aug 2024
HUMAN Human Factors Oct 2020
FLY-WING4 Fly the Wing Aug 2020
PR-ELEC Practical Electricity For Aviation Maintenance Technicians Apr 2020
8083-15B Instrument Flying Handbook Nov 2019
CAP-6 The Complete Advanced Pilot Sep 2019
PHF-2 Principles of Helicopter Flight May 2018
PM-ME The Pilot’s Manual: Multi-Engine Flying Sep 2015