need advice on ground school book

"Icebound" wrote in message
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I have a 1989 copy of From The Ground Up I paid $20 at the time. I saw a
updated copy for $50. I don't like the 1989 copy I have, I think it is
poorly written and doesn't explain the topics properly.

The latest version isn't any better...

I'm curious.

Can you point a specific section that you find "poorly written and doesn't
explain the topics properly", in the latest version ("Millenium" Edition).

Well, my main reason for responding was the "poorly written" part.
It is dry, *oh* so dry, an absolute chore to read (and I love reading
about aviation). All the instructors at my FBO share the opinion of
the book.

But now that you ask about "doesn't explain...properly", now that
I think about, it seems to me that every time I would read something
in the AIP (Cdn. version of the AIM), and I wanted a clearer explanation,
I'd turn to "From the Ground Up", and find nothing but an exact same
copy of the text, the exact same wording. All they did was lift the exact
text of the AIP into FtGU. They could have at *least* paraphrased,
and added some commentary.

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