The Pilot Training Manual for the P38 Lightning is a comprehensive guide packed with invaluable data, including photographs, diagrams, and drawings. Published in December 1944 by the Headquarters AAF, Office of Flying Safety for the USAAF, this manual serves as the standard training text for trainee pilots at the time. It covers a wide range of topics essential for both professional mechanics and DIY enthusiasts.
Acrobatics
Aileron Boost
Air Filter
Airspeed versus Altitude
Ammeter
Armament
Arming Switch Box
Armor Protection
Bailout
Battery
Belly Landing
Blindfold Test
Bomb Release
Brakes
Camera
Cannon
Carburetor Heat
Carburetor Icing
Circuit Breakers & Fuses
Climb
Cockpit
Cockpit Check
Cockpit Explanation
Cockpit Time
Combat Experience
Communications
Compass
Compressibility
Dive
Recovery Procedure
Relationship to Speed of Sound
Control Lock
Control Wheel
Coolant Flaps
Coolant Specification
Cooling System
Critical Altitude
Crossfeed & Cross Suction
Crosswind Landings
Cruise
Description
Destructor Unit
Dinghy
Ditching
Dive Flaps
Dive Limits
Dive Recovery
Dives
Drag
Drop Tanks
Electrical System
Failure
Engines
Engine Failure
Escort Fighter
Ethylene Glycol
Fighter Bomber
First Flight
Flaps
Emergency Operation of
Flight Restrictions
Foreword
Fuel
Capacity
Consumption
Management
Pressure
Pumps
Quantity Gages
Selectors
Siphoning
Specification
System
Generator
Go-around
Gunsight
Heating
High Altitude Fighter
History
Hydraulic System
Auxiliary
Emergency Extension
Failure
Fluid Specification
Hand Pump
Pressure Gage
System Gage
Icing
IFF (Identification, Friend or Foe)
Instrument Flying
Instrument Panel
Intercooler
Inverter
Ladder
Landing
Behind Prop Wash
Emergency
Landing Gear
Down & Locked Check
Emergency Extension System
Warning Horn
Lighting Equipment
Low Altitude Fighter
Mach Number
Machine Guns
Mae West
Manifold Pressure Regulator
Maneuver Flaps
Microphone
Mixture Control
Night Flying
Special Check
Nose Wheel
Shimmy Damper
Oil Dilution
Oil Specification
Oil System
Operating Data
Outer Wing Tanks
Oxygen Flow Meter
Oxygen Mask
Oxygen System
Photo-reconnaissance
Piggyback
Demonstration
Power Plant
Preflight Check
Propeller
Automatic Constant Speed
Checklist
Circuit Breakers
Feathering
Feathering Indicator Lights
Featheritis
Manual Fixed Pitch
Overspeeding
Preflight Check
Unfeathering
Warning Lights
Radio
Remote Compass
Reverse Current Relay
Ripcord
Run-Up Check
Short Field Takeoff
Single Engine
Demonstration
Landing
Practice
Range
Spins
Stalls
Starting Engines
Stopping Engines
Supercharger
Overspeed Warning Lights
Takeoff
Taxiing
Throttles
Torque
Vernier
VHF Command Radio
Visual Inspection Check
Voltage Regulator
Voltmeter
Warm Up
Water Landing
Yaw
This manual is an essential resource for anyone seeking detailed technical information on the P38 Lightning and its operation.
