Table of Contents - The Proficient Pilot

Foreward by Ernest K. Gann

SECTION 1--THE DYNAMICS OF FLIGHT

Chapter 1	The Miracle of Lift
Chapter 2	All About Stalls
Chapter 3	Stalls and Spins
Chapter 4	Turning and Maneuvering
Chapter 5	That Shifting Center of Gravity
Chapter 6	Flying Behind the Power Curve

SECTION 2--PROFICIENCY AND TECHNIQUE

Chapter 7	Everything You Need to Know About Climbing
Chapter 8	The Mysteries of Gliding Flight
Chapter 9	Slipping to a Landing
Chapter 10	Another Way to Make Crosswind Landings
Chapter 11	Operating from Uphill and Downhill Runways
Chapter 12	Operating on Contaminated Runways
Chapter 13	Soaring Techniques in an Airplane
Chapter 14	Scud Running
Chapter 15	Flying a Taildragger

SECTION 3--FLIGHTWORTHY CONSIDERATIONS

Chapter 16	Responsibilities of the Pilot in Command
Chapter 17	Wind Shear: Mystery of the Vanishing Airspeed
Chapter 18	Operating at High Density Altitudes
Chapter 19	Hazardous In-Flight Illusions
Chapter 20	How to Interpret Engine Instruments

SECTION 4--GETTING THERE

Chapter 21	Dead Reckoning is Alive and Well
Chapter 22	Wind and Its Effect on Aircraft
Chapter 23	Pressure-Pattern Navigation Simplified

SECTION 5--THE WORLD OF INSTRUMENT FLIGHT

Chapter 24	The Low-Visibility Takeoff
Chapter 25	Flying the ILS Approach
Chapter 26	The Low Visibility Transition to a Landing
Chapter 27	Executing Nonprecision Approaches
Chapter 28	The Hazards of Circling Approaches
Chapter 29	Busting Approach Minimums
Chapter 30	Holding
Chapter 31	Strange and Unusual Instrument Approaches from Around the World

SECTION 6--EMERGENCY TACTICS

Chapter 32	Flight Control Failure
Chapter 33	Coping with Pitot-Static Difficulties
Chapter 34	Engine Failure after Takeoff (in a single)
Chapter 35	Engine Failure at Night or IFR (in a single)
Chapter 36	Precautionary Landings

SECTION 7--MULTI-ENGINE FLYING

Chapter 37	Engine-Out Approaches
Chapter 38	Engine-Out Driftdown
Chapter 39	Minimum Controllable Airspeed and Advice

Index by Robert Sacks