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