Pilot Training Manual for the P40
Generic Manual covering all models. Excellent Scanned copies 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 & performance / operating Tables/Charts. The pages can be printed out in high resolution without any restrictions. The detailed contents is listed below.

94 pages. Printed by the Headquarters United States Army Airforce, Office of Flying Safety. This Manual , as stated in the foreword is the standard AAF text for the training of P40 Pilots at the time of publication. The manual serves the dual purpose of a Training Checklist and a working Handbook. Well Illustrated with many photographs and drawings.



Index

Aerobatics

Loops

Immelmanns

In String Formation

After Takeoff

Ammeter

Bailouts

Bombing

Minimum Altitude

Dive Bombing

Brakes

Parking Brake Handle

Breaker Switches

Canopy

Checklists

Cockpit

Engine Warmup

External

Starting

Stopping

Climbs

Cockpit

Cold Weather Tips

Control Surfaces

Coolant System

Shutters

Temperature Gage

Description, General

Detonation

Dimensions

Ditching

Dives

Electrical System

Emergency Procedures

Engine

Allison

Rolls Royce

Engine Primer

Fire

Flaps

Control

Indicators

Flight Characteristics

Flying Tigers

Forced Landings

At Night

On Airfields

On Swampy & Rough Terrain

On Takeoff

With Power Off

With Power On

Formation Flying

Hints to Flight Leader

Precision Technique

Signals

Fuel System

Gages

Selector Valve

Tank Capacities

Vented tank

Full Military Load

Generator Reset Button

Glides

Go Around Procedures

Grade 91 Fuel

Gun Camera

Gunsight

Gunnery

Approaches

Heating

High Altitude Characteristics

Hot Weather Tips

Hydraulic System

Auxiliary Pump

Emergency Pump

Ignition Switch

Instrument Flying

Landing Gear

Lowering

Retracting

Wheel Indicators

Landings

Crosswind, Gusty & Wet Landings

Level Flight

Lighting

Lost Procedures

Manifold Pressure Gage

Manifold Pressure Regulator

Mixture Control

Navigation

Night Flying

Landing

Takeoff

Oil System

Overheating

Pressure Gage

Tank

Temperature Gage

Oxygen Equipment

Constant Flow

Demand System

Power Settings

Allison Engine

Rolls Royce Engine

Pre-Takeoff Check

Propeller

Breaker Switch

Control

Selector Switch

Trouble

Propeller Shadow

Radio

Emergency Procedure

Microphone

SCR 274-N

VHF

Seating

Spins

Inverted

Normal

Stalls

Starter

Supercharger

Tachometer

Takeoff

Taxiing

Throttle Quadrant

Tire Failure

Tomahawk

Trim Tabs

Turns

Warhawk