Pilot Training Manual for the P38 Lightning

Excellent Scanned copy. 98 Pages scanned as High resolution TIF images and then digitally cleaned page by page. Guaranteed the best quality copy of this manual you will find. Packed with invaluable data including many Photographs Diagrams & Drawings. Published December 1944 by the Headquarters AAF, Office of Flying Safety for the USAAF. This manual was printed as the standard training text for trainee pilots at the time. This manual does not relate to a specific model of P38 but is generic referring to various models in use at the time of publication.

Index

Acrobatics

Aileron Boost

Air Filter

Airspeed versus Altitude

Ammeter

Armament

Arming Switch Box

Armor Protection



Bailout

Battery

Belly Landing

Blindfold Test

Bomb Release

Brakes

How to Use



Camera

Cannon

Carburetor Heat

Carburetor Icing

Circuit Breakers & Fuses

Climb

Cockpit

Cockpit Check

Cockpit Explanation

Cockpit Time

Combat Experience

Communications

Compass

Compressibility

Dive

Recovery Procedure

Relationship to Speed of Sound

Control Lock

Control Wheel

Coolant Flaps

Coolant Specification

Cooling System

Critical Altitude

Crossfeed & Cross Suction

Crosswind Landings

Cruise



Description

Destructor Unit

Dinghy

Ditching

Dive Flaps

Dive Limits

Dive Recovery

Dives

Drag

Drop Tanks



Electrical System

Failure

Engines

Engine Failure

Escort Fighter

Ethylene Glycol



Fighter Bomber

First Flight

Flaps

Emergency Operation of

Flight Restrictions

Foreword

Fuel

Capacity

Consumption

Management

Pressure

Pumps

Quantity Gages

Selectors

Siphoning

Specification

System



Generator

Go-around

Gunsight



Heating

High Altitude Fighter

History

Hydraulic System

Auxiliary

Emergency Extension

Failure

Fluid Specification

Hand Pump

Pressure Gage

System Gage



Icing

IFF (Identification, Friend or Foe)

Instrument Flying

Instrument Panel

Intercooler

Inverter



Ladder

Landing

Behind Prop Wash

Emergency

Landing Gear

Down & Locked Check

Emergency Extension System

Warning Horn

Lighting Equipment

Low Altitude Fighter



Mach Number

Machine Guns

Mae West

Manifold Pressure Regulator

Maneuver Flaps

Microphone

Mixture Control



Night Flying

Special Check

Nose Wheel

Shimmy Damper



Oil Dilution

Oil Specification

Oil System

Operating Data

Outer Wing Tanks

Oxygen Flow Meter

Oxygen Mask

Oxygen System



Photo-reconnaissance

Piggyback

Demonstration

Power Plant

Preflight Check

Propeller

Automatic Constant Speed

Checklist

Circuit Breakers

Feathering

Feathering Indicator Lights

Featheritis

Manual Fixed Pitch

Overspeeding

Preflight Check

Unfeathering

Warning Lights



Radio

Remote Compass

Reverse Current Relay

Ripcord

Run-Up Check



Short Field Takeoff

Single Engine

Demonstration

Landing

Practice

Range

Spins

Stalls

Starting Engines

Stopping Engines

Supercharger

Overspeed Warning Lights



Takeoff

Taxiing

Throttles

Torque



Vernier

VHF Command Radio

Visual Inspection Check

Voltage Regulator

Voltmeter



Warm Up

Water Landing


Yaw


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