Shirley Phillips made her first emergency landing at the Manchester Airport when she lost an engine and had to glide in. Now she will be at Balin Books in Nashua on Saturday at 2 p.m. to discuss her new book “How Not To Fly An Airplane: A Female Pilot’s Journey”.

Her memoir is about learning to fly before you are old enough to drive a car, and teaching others when you are nearly always mistaken for being the pilot’s girlfriend, wife, or daughter. It’s about the many mistakes you can make in an airplane, and what it’s like to solve them, thousands of feet in the air or just a few feet above the trees.

For 10 years she was a flight instructor at Daniel Webster College. She taught flight operations and air traffic management courses to students pursuing careers as pilots, air traffic controllers or aviation managers. She developed a curriculum for a flight training device that replicated the flight characteristics of a Boeing 737. She also acted as an advisor to students and directed and helped develop curriculum for an online MBA for aviation professionals. She taught all courses in the flight operations undergraduate major and was a flight instructor in all seven of the college’s aviation fleet including the CAP10B, Grob 109B, Cessna-172, Cessna Crusader, Mooney M20J, Piper Seminole and Piper Arrow.

She now lives so close to the Nashua airport she can critique all the landing approaches from her deck.

This event is free and all are welcome. For more information call the bookstore at 603-417-7981 or online at balinbooks.com.