C47 Skytrain Dakota Dc3 - Pilot Training Manual On Cd on 2040-parts.com

Pilot Training Manual for the C-47 Skytrain

AAF Manual 51-129-2 . Perfect Scanned copy on CD. Scanned as high resolution TIF images & digitally cleaned page by page.  107 pages packed with invaluable data and many detailed drawings & Tables.  Original Manual published by the Headquarters, Army Airforces in August 1945. This manual covers all models in service up to 1945 (C-47, C-47A & C-47B). See index below for full contents of manual . Also included on the CD is an Adobe Acrobat version of the manual for easy browsing (Adobe Reader 7.0 supplied on the CD).  Comes on a high quality CD in a nicely printed Jewel case. See my other auctions for more vintage aircraft and engine manuals including a full range of C47, & Dakota operation and repair manuals.

Index

Abandoning Plane

Additional Equipment for Glider Tow

After Ditching Positions

After Engines are Running

After Landing

After Takeoff

Airplane Commander and His Crew

Airborne Operations

Anti-icer

Automatic Pilot

Auxiliary Equipment

Bailout

Battery Cart Plug

Before Landing

Before Takeoff

Before Taxiing

Booster Pumps

Brakes

Braking When Hydraulic Pressure Drops

Broken Fuel Line

Carburetor Heat Controls

Carburetor Icing

Carburetor Mixtures

Check for Glider Tow Operation

Checklists

Climb, Glider Tow

Climb and Cruise

Climb Power Settings

Cold Weather Operation

Communications Equipment

Communications System

Control Pedestal

Controls , Cold Weather

Cowl Flaps

Cross Feed System

Crosswind Landings

Cruise

Cruise Control TO AN01-40NC-1

Cruise Power Settings (91 Octane)

Cruising Chart

Deicers

Diagram – Hot Air Heating System

Diagram of Fuel System

Diagram of Hydraulic System

Diagram – Steam Heating System

Dilution

Ditching

Ditching Stations and Duties

Electrical Panels

Electrical System

Emergency Exits

Emergency Landings on Land

Emergency Operation of Wing Flaps

Emergency Precautions

Emergency Signals

Engine Failure on Takeoff

Engine Fuel Pump or Valve Failure

Engine Run-up

Extreme Cold Weather

Exterior Lights

Failure of Hydraulic System

Fire in Flight

Flat-tire Landing

Flight Characteristics and Limitations

Flying with Ice

Front Panel

Fuel Selector Valves

Fuel System

Fuel Tanks

Glider Pick-up Unit

Ground Station Unit

Heaters

Hints for Pick-up

Hydraulic System

Inside Check

Inspections and Checks

Instrument Approaches

Instrument Markings

Instruments and Gages, Cold Weather

Interior Lights

Landing

Landing and Taxiing

Landing Gear

Landing with Failure of Fluid Pressure and Safety Catch

Landing Without Hydraulic Fluid Pressure

Landing Without Safety Latch Engaged

Left Side Panels

Lights

Long Range Operation

Loss of Normal Hydraulic Fluid

Mooring

Night Flying

Night Vision in the C-47

No-flap Landing

Oil Radiators

Oil System

Operation with Gliders in Tow

Operation with Parapacks

Operation with Paratroops

Outside Check

Overshooting a Field – (Both Engines)

Oxygen System

Parking

Parking Brake

Preflight Inspection

Procedure for Glider Pick-up

Propellors

Relief Valve Failure

Right Side Panel

Run-up

Sample Chart – ATC Long Range Cruise

Series Changes

Short Field Landings

Single Engine Approach and Landing

Single Engine Operation

Stalling Speeds

Starting

Super Chargers

Surface Control System

Takeoff

Takeoff Pattern – Double Tow

Takeoff Power Setting

Takeoff – Single and Double Tow

Taxiing

Taxiing Don’ts

Turbulent Air

Vacuum System

Visual Inside Inspection

Visual Outside Inspection

Weather Flying

Weight and Balance

Wing Flaps

Wobble Pump

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