Found another great book at a second-hand bookstore: 機長の一万日 コックピットの恐さと快感！
It is an autobiographical aviation popular science book written by JAL’s senior captain “Mikio Taguchi”.

Captain Taguchi has carried out numerous flight missions for government dignitaries, such as the Southeast Asian visit of the Emperor and Empress, the European visit of Prime Minister Kaifu, and the European visit of the Crown Prince. It is evident that he is an exceptionally excellent pilot. In this book, he introduces some aviation knowledge, his own flight experiences, and some successful and failed flight cases. For instance, his explanation regarding his airliner accidentally straying into cumulonimbus clouds and lenticular clouds was very beneficial.

Personally, I love the following two details in this book the most.

One is about the most satisfying Landing in his personal flying career. It was during the Crown Prince’s foreign visit. The weather was good, the flight time matched the plan perfectly, and all operations during the Landing were extremely perfect with a gentle touchdown. The Descent angle, the timing of the flare, and the touchdown point were exactly consistent with his pre-visualization. Even the timing of exiting the Runway, entering the Taxiway, and entering the Apron was accurate to the second. The First Officer executing the flight was also a very excellent Captain with rich flight experience. After seeing Taguchi’s Landing, this Captain exclaimed, “How can there be such a perfect Landing in this world!” And Captain Taguchi himself could not understand it either, and in subsequent flight missions, he was never able to reproduce such a brilliant Landing again.

The other is his introduction to the handling of a genius pilot at JAL. This pilot was Taguchi’s senior. Because of illness, he had rested for a few months. Later, when he was carrying out his reinstatement flight, Taguchi served as his examiner. According to Taguchi’s observation, this pilot’s handling was perfect from start to finish, clean and sharp. There was never any superfluous movement. Moreover, he could predict the impact of every operation on the aircraft’s Attitude with extreme accuracy in advance, just like a Go master who can analyze all future changes in the game. Not only was Attitude control excellent, but the timing of switching Autopilot and navigation equipment frequencies was also impeccable. This made Taguchi feel a significant gap. It turns out that there are such masters in this world. I read it with longing as well.

On Amazon, I saw that Taguchi has published a few other books. I plan to buy them and read them later.