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Contents and Front Matter

Flying Safety; PIF Distribution; Table of Contents

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Section 1: General

Directory Chart, Headquarters Army Air Forces; Pilot's Responsibilities; Form 23; Flying Safety; Safeguarding Classified Material; How to Use PIF; Technical Orders; Flying on a Red Diagonal; Transition Flying Training; Instrument Flying; White Card; Green Card; Time Credit; Aeronautical Ratings; Reporting Aircraft Accidents; Forms; Form 1; Individual Flight Record; Invoice; Aircraft Clearance;

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Section 2: Flight

Airways Map; Army Flight Service Centers; Airway Traffic Control Centers; Pilot's Advisory Service; Air Traffic Rules; Contact Flight Rules; Instrument Flight Rules; Clearance for Aircraft; Radio Chnage in Flight Plan; Passengers in Aircraft; Air Space Reservations and Flight Hazards; Hazards to Air Navigation; Low Flying; Crew Requirements for Multi-engined Airplanes; Hand Signals for Taxiing; Takeoff and Landing Precautions; Checklists; Marking Obstructions; Domestic Runway Markings; Camouflage; Radio Equipment; Jackbox; Radio Range Filter; Microphone; T-17 Hand Microphone; Liaison Equipment; IFF Radar Equipment; Command Equipment; SCR-274N Medium Frequency Set; SCR-522 Very High Frequencey Set; SCR-522 Control Box; 274N Command Set; Operation for Homing; Operation for Range Reception; Marker Beacon Receiver; Polarization Errors; Radio Altimeters; Instrument Landing Systems; SCS-51 Control Box; Radio R/T Procedure; Phonetic Alphabet; Pronunciation of Numbers; Radio Facility Charts; Radio Dialogue; Visual Signals for Formation Flying; Tower Light Gun Signals; Flight Limitations; Stalls and Spins; High-speed Stalls; High-speed Dives; Chart of Minimum Safe Altitude Required for Pull-out from a Vertical Dive; Engine Failure on Multi-engine Aircraft;

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Section 3: Weather Flying

Weather Symbols; Cloud Types; Fogs; Estimating Weather in Flight; Haze Levels, Overcast Bases and Tops; Fronts; Warm Fronts; Cold Fronts; Line Squalls; Rules for Flying Weather; Summer Flying; Winter Flying; Carburetor Icing; Induction-System Icing; Manifold Pressure Drop; Air Filters; Icing on Aircraft; Types of Ice; Preventing and Remoing Ice; Pitot Tubes; Flight Instruments; Pitot-Static Head; Flush Static Source; Airspeed Indicator; Rate-of-climb Indicator; Altimeter; Magnetic Compass; Gyro Flux Gate Compass System; Bank-and-Turn Indicator; Directional Gyro; Gyro-Horizon Indicator; Automatic Pilot;

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Section 4: Man Goes Aloft

Effect of Oxygen-want on Handwriting During Ascent; Effects of High Altitude; Oxygen Systems; A-10 Demand Oxygen Mask; A-14 Demand Oxygen Mask; A-12 Demand Regulator; A-7A, A-8A, A-8B Continuous Flow Oxygen System; Portable Oxygen Equipment; Bail-out Oxygen Cylinders; G-Forces; Physical Fitness; Vision at Night; Dangerous Gases; Heat and Cold; F-2 Electrically Heated Flying Suit; Flight Surgeon and the Pilot; Sense of Position in Flight; Night Flying; Airsickness;

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Section 5: Power Plant

Ground Operation of Engines; Starting of Aircraft Engines; Supercharger Control; Controllable Propellers; Oil Dilution; Flight Operation of Engines; Fuel Octane; Engine Instruments; Manifold Pressure Gage; Fuel Mixture Indicator; Oil-Pressure Gages; Air Speed Indicator; Cylinder Temperature; Carburetor Temperature; RPM; Fuel Systems; Aromatic Fuels; Reserve Fuel Supply; Fuel Tank Change-over; Fuel Gages; Fuel Booster Pumps; Carburetor Mixture Controls; Oil Systems; Hydraulics; Propellers; Feathering; Curtiss Electric Propeller; Hamilton Standard Counterweight Type Propeller; Hamilton Standard Hydromatic Propeller; Aeorprop; Electrical Power System; Electrical Instrument Failure;

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Section 6: The Airplane

Tricycle Landing Gear; Best Take-Off Procedure; Landing Wheel Brakes; Flaps; Forced Landings; Surface Control Locks; How to Trim Your Plane; Care of the Airplane; Towing; Mooring; Plexiglas; Emergency Exits; Safety Belts; Safety Precautions; Weight and Balance; Transport and Cargo Weight and Balance Clearance Form F; Tactical Weight and Balance Clearance Form F;

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Section 7: Navigation Aids

Aeronautical Chart Symbols; Flight Preparation; Aeronautical Charts; Lambert Conformal Projection; Mercator Projection; Check Points; Dead Reckoning; Wind; Drift; Radio Aids; Radio Navigation; International Morse Code; Night Navigation; What to Do When Lost;

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Section 8: Emergency

To Bail or Not to Bail; Forced Landings; Survival After Forced Landings; Ditching; Ditching the Airplane; Abandoing the Airplane; Fighter Airplances; Parachutes; Clearing the Airplane; How to Mke Body Turns; QAC AB6513-1A Parachute; Night Jumps; High Altitude Jumps; Parachute Types; B-7, B-8, B-9, S-1, S-2, AN6510, AN6511, S5 Parachutes; QAC (AN6513-a) and QAC (AN6513-1A) Parachutes; Type A-3, A-4 Parachutes; Pyrotechnic Pistols; M2 Pistol; AN-M8 Pistol; Smoke Grenades; M8 Smoke Grenade; M3 Smoke Grenade; Panel Signals; Body Signals; Vest Type Emergency Kit; C-1 Emergency Sustenance Vest; Life Preserver Vest; Swimming Through Fire; Life Raft Kit; Life Raft Discipline; One-man Life Raft; Fire Fighting; Fire Fighting Equipment in Airplanes; First Aid Kits; First Aid in Flight; Morphine; Sulphailamide Powder; Sulfadiazine Tablets;

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Index and Back Matter

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