RESTRICTED 1945 WW2 US Army Pilot WEATHER FLYING B-17 B-29 Landing Gear Hatch Ex
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Official manila Army Air forces
Office of Flying Safety
Information Files Branch
Buhl Building
Detroit 28 Michigan
Pilots\' information file
No. 18 Revision No. 18
Dated May 1, 1945
These sheets are revisions/addendum to previously issued materials.
Technical materials.
26 pages double-sided.
\"This is your last revision until August 1, 1945 (Hooray!). That revision will be a big one, because there are many subjects in PIF which will be affected by forthcoming amendments to AAF Regulations. The current plan is to publish revisions only once every three months.
Now is a good time to un-snafu your PIF. Use the enclosed checklist...
Section 3, Weather Flying...This new poop on weather flying is a distinct departure from what you have had previously in PIF. It is concerned mostly with flight planning for weather rather than meterology. It was prepared in cooperation with AAFF Instrument Flying Standardization Board at Bryan, Texas. Those of you who have attended the instrument flying school there know their practical straight-forward approach to the subject. They take the scare out of weather flying and supplant it with good COMPLETE CHECKLIST OF PAGES IN PILOT\'S INFORMATION FILE AS OF MAY 1945
Pgs5-6: Table of Contents PIF
Time Credit (First/Co/Command/Acting Command/Qualified/Student First Pilot time...)
(Chart) Minimum SAFE Altitude Required for Pull-Out from Vertical Dive
Engine Failure
SECTION 3 WEATHER FLYING
Weather Flying (Station Facilities - winds aloft charts every 6 hours, adiabats (atomospheric soundings) every 12 hours)(Procedures)
Weather Maps
Forecasts and Sequences (Army Forecasts, Station Call Letters, Hourly Teletype Reports
Weather Aloft (Winds Aloft Forecast/Sequences)
Analysis of Adiabtic Diagram
Section C Form 23
Form 23A Forecast
Clearance Weather (Fog, Radiation Fog, Advection Fog)
Alternate Airport Weather Minimus
Weather in Flight (Icing on Aircraft, Effects of Ice)
Types of Ice
Stalls, Preventing and Removing Ice (Wings and Tail)
PROPELLER (Increase RPM of Propeller)(De-icing Fluid)
PITOT TUBES
Carburetor Icing
Turbulence (Mechanical, (Man-made)(Natural)
Seasonal Weather (Summer/Winter)
COMBAT Weather \"The AAF is fighting in combat theaters throughout the world. Each theater has specific weather problems. InAlaska and the Aleutiansthere are prolonged periods of icings, long ceilings and poor visibility....North Africa and the Mediterranean provide perfect weather in the summer...
SECTION 6 THE AIRPLANE
Tricycle Landing Gear
Landing Brake Controls (Inspections)
Care of the Airplane (Cleaning, Towing, Lifting Tail Section, Moaring, Plexiglas)
Emergency Exits (Size of Hattches, Belly-Hatch Bailouts, Prepartion, Choice of Hatches)
(Last 2gs) INDEX