Patrick Smith – Jill Grinberg Literary Management

Patrick Smith

Patrick Smith is an airline pilot, air travel blogger, and author. His “Ask the Pilot” column was a fixture in Salon for over ten years. He currently hosts the popular site Ask the Pilot, which covers all aspects of air travel, and is the author of the bestselling book Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections. He has appeared on over 200 radio and television outlets, and his work is frequently cited in numerous publications worldwide. An avid traveler who has visited more than eighty countries, he currently lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Agent

Sophia Seidner

Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections

A New York Times bestseller

For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even fearful experience. Patrick Smith, airline pilot and author of the popular website www.askthepilot.com, separates fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know:

• How planes fly, and a revealing look at the men and women who fly them
• Straight talk on turbulence, pilot training, and safety.
• The real story on delays, congestion, and the dysfunction of the modern airport
• The myths and misconceptions of cabin air and cockpit automation
• Terrorism in perspective, and a provocative look at security
• Airfares, seating woes, and the pitfalls of airline customer service
• The colors and cultures of the airlines we love to hate

Cockpit Confidential covers not only the nuts and bolts of flying, but the grand theater of air travel, from airport architecture to inflight service to the excitement of travel abroad. It’s a thoughtful, funny, at times deeply personal look into the strange and misunderstood world of commercial flying.

Praise for Cockpit Confidential

“Smith paints an unflinching portrait of modern air travel with several fresh and unexpected insights.” –Publishers Weekly

“Brilliant…A book to be savored and passed to friends.” –Vanity Fair

“Patrick Smith is extraordinarily knowledgeable about modern aviation, and communicates beautifully in English, not in pilot-ese. The ideal seatmate, companion, writer and explainer.” –The Boston Globe

Publisher

Soucebooks

Publication Date

June 5, 2018

Age Category

Adult

Genre

Nonfiction/Travel & Aviation

Rights

JGLM