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Table of Contents - The Proficient Pilot Volume 2

Foreward by Jay Apt

SECTION 1--MORE ABOUT THE DYNAMICS OF FLIGHT

Chapter 1 Power Loading and Wing Loading
Chapter 2 Ground Effect
Chapter 3 Cruise Control
Chapter 4 Flying in Turbulence
Chapter 5 How Does This Airplane Really Perform?
Chapter 6 Roll Control and Adverse Yaw


SECTION 2--MORE ABOUT PROFICIENCY AND TECHNIQUE

Chapter 7 Aborting a Takeoff
Chapter 8 Trimming
Chapter 9 Coping with Wind Shear
Chapter 10 The Go-Around
Chapter 11 Preventing Wheelbarrow Landings and Loss of Control
Chapter 12 Crash Landings
Chapter 13 To Spin or Not to Spin
Chapter 14 Desert Flying
Chapter 15 Stopping the Propeller


SECTION 3--POWERFUL TOPICS

Chapter 16 Theory and Operation of Propellers
Chapter 17 Managing Engine Power
Chapter 18Turbocharger Operations
Chapter 19 Starting the Hot Engine
Chapter 20 The In-Flight Engine Fire


SECTION 4--INSTRUMENT POINTERS

Chapter 21 How to Really Determine True Airspeed
Chapter 22Coping with Altimeter and Airspeed Indicator Failures
Chapter 23Coping with Vacuum System (Gyro) Failure
Chapter 24 The Turn Indicator vs. the Turn Coordinator
Chapter 25 Swinging a Compass
Chapter 26 All About Time (Z, GMT, and UTC)


SECTION 5--SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT

Chapter 27Gear-Up Landings
Chapter 28 Operating the Pressurization System
Chapter 29 Electrical System Failure
Chapter 30Flaps, Slats, and Slots


SECTION 6--FLYING IFR

Chapter 31Time-Saving IFR Shortcuts
Chapter 32 Missed Approaches
Chapter 33 Two-Way Communications Failure
Chapter 34 Communicating for Survival
Chapter 35Structural Icing


SECTION 7--ADVANCED ADVENTURES

Chapter 36 Fly to Europe--Yourself
Chapter 37Ditching
Chapter 38 Formation Flying
Chapter 39 World Aviation Records and How to Set One


SECTION 8--SPECIAL TREATS

Chapter 40 Codename: Operation Peace Flight
Chapter 41High Flight (in a Lockheed U-2)
Chapter 42Flying the Space Shuttle
Chapter 43 Sentimental Journey


Index by Robert Sacks




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