Table of Contents - The Proficient Pilot Volume 3

Foreward by R. A. "Bob" Hoover

SECTION 1--PILOT PROFICIENCY

Chapter 1	The Danger of Skidding Turns
Chapter 2	Coping with an Open Door in Flight
Chapter 3	The Black-Hole Approach
Chapter 4	Simulated Engine Failures
Chapter 5	Flap Malfunctions
Chapter 6	The Downwind Turn
Chapter 7	V Speeds--A through Z
Chapter 8	Using IFR Charts for VFR Flights
Chapter 9	Pilot Error
Chapter 10	Declaring an Emergency
Chapter 11	Investigating Lightplane Accidents

SECTION 2--IFR OPERATIONS

Chapter 12	Category I, II, and III ILS Approaches
Chapter 13	Circling Approaches
Chapter 14	Altimetry
Chapter 15	Minimum Vectoring Altitude
Chapter 16	Avionics Failure
Chapter 17	Flying DME Arcs
Chapter 18	Radar Approaches

SECTION 3--TURBINE OPERATIONS

Chapter 19	What It's Like to Fly a Jet
Chapter 20	Jet Takeoff Techniques and Performance
Chapter 21	Airspeed in a Jet
Chapter 22	Mach Airspeed and the Speed of Sound
Chapter 23	Straight Vs. Swept-Wing Airplanes
Chapter 24	Flying Above the Weather--Almost
Chapter 25	Deep Stalls
Chapter 26	Maximum Range and Cruise Control
Chapter 27	Spoilers and Speed Brakes
Chapter 28	Jet Landing Techniques and Performance
Chapter 29	Crew Resource Management
Chapter 30	Principles of Turboprop Engines
Chapter 31	Principles of Inertial Navigation

SECTION 4--PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS

Chapter 32	Getting More Ratings
Chapter 33	The Rule of Sixty
Chapter 34	The Preflight Inspection
Chapter 35	Destinationitis
Chapter 36	Survival
Chapter 37	Ham-Fisted Pilots
Chapter 38	Distractions
Chapter 39	Keeping Up With the Airplane
Chapter 40	Procedure vs. Technique
Chapter 41	Instructors Good and Bad
Chapter 42	Eavesdropping on the Radio
Chapter 43	Using Checklists
Chapter 44	Logging Time
Chapter 45	Midair Collisions
Chapter 46	How to Escape a Killer Downdraft
Chapter 47	The Maximum-Trim Technique
Chapter 48	Oxygen
Chapter 49	Judgment
Chapter 50	Complacency
Chapter 51	Aerobatics
Chapter 52	Trimming During Steep Turns
Chapter 53	Expectations
Chapter 54	Seat-of-the-Pants Flying
Chapter 55	Wire Strikes
Chapter 56	Hazardous Airports
Chapter 57	The Sterile Cockpit
Chapter 58	Skill vs. Experience
Chapter 59	Fatigue

SECTION 5--FLYING FOR FUN AND PROFIT

SECTION 6--SPECIAL TREATS

Chapter 63	The Ultimate Flight--Around the World
Chapter 64	My Favorite Airplane
Chapter 65	My Favorite Flight

Index by Robert Sacks