Tips To Fly By; by Richard Collins is full of practical flying tips from the chief editor of Flying and AOPA Pilot magazines. The author brings to this book 18,500 flight hours and over 900 magazine articles. Here is his experiences written in a conversational style, yet packed with useful information. Consider it the best of those magazines in one book. From preflight to fuel management to selecting an aircraft, it imparts flying savvy that takes 1,000s of hours to obtain.

From The Introduction:

A new pilot summed this up when he said he felt superficially trained. What he wanted was an outline of things he would learn from experience in his first 1,000 hours of flying. This book is based on experience, and it is my hope that the pilot who mentioned the need will find here 1,000 hours worth of hands on flying experience.