RAF Association Puzzle Book: Do You Have What It Takes to Fly with the Best?

A puzzle book compiled by Dr Gareth Moore, author of the bestselling Mindfulness Puzzle Books, with the support of The RAF Association, a membership organisation and registered charity that provides welfare support to the RAF family. The book consists of puzzles that test a wide range of skills that might be expected of a pilot, including cognitive challenges, survival skills, visual abilities, memory tests, and knowledge training. The puzzles require readers to focus on both the big picture and the small picture, make quick, accurate decisions, understand the world around them, and maintain a ready awareness of the current situation and active goals.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 03 September 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

An aircraft- and flight-themed puzzle book, compiled by Dr. Gareth Moore, author of the bestselling Mindfulness Puzzle Books among many others, done with the support of The RAF Association, a membership organization and registered charity that has been providing welfare support to the RAF family for over 90 years. Their membership of 74,000 includes serving RAF personnel, veterans, and members of the public.

Pilots need to be able to think quickly and react immediately to unexpected, complex situations. This book consists of puzzles that test a wide range of skills that might be expected of a pilot. The book's five chapters cover:

Cognitive challenges: Puzzles that require the reader to solve logic puzzles of a range of types, testing many different types of reasoning skills. Just as pilots have to do, the puzzles require readers to focus on both the big picture - what they are trying to achieve - and the small picture of each individual deduction or decision.

Survival skills: The challenges in this section are all about speed. No complex logic is required, but all of the puzzles must be solved as quickly as possible - though without making any mistakes. This reflects a pilot's need to make quick, accurate decisions while flying.

Visual abilities: The puzzles in this part of the book test 3D manipulation and other visual transformation skills, mirroring a pilot's need to be able to understand the world around them as more than just a flat picture.

Memory tests: Despite the advanced abilities of modern devices, it's still important to be able to maintain a ready awareness of the current situation and active goals, and so in this section, the reader is helped to practice and improve their memorization and recall skills with a series of simple games.

Weight: 320g
Dimension: 153 x 232 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472145321