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 18	Turbocharger 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 22	Coping with Altimeter and Airspeed Indicator Failures
Chapter 23	Coping 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 27	Gear-Up Landings
Chapter 28	Operating the Pressurization System
Chapter 29	Electrical System Failure
Chapter 30	Flaps, Slats, and Slots

SECTION 6--FLYING IFR

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

SECTION 7--ADVANCED ADVENTURES

Chapter 36	Fly to Europe--Yourself
Chapter 37	Ditching
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 41	High Flight (in a Lockheed U-2)
Chapter 42	Flying the Space Shuttle
Chapter 43	Sentimental Journey

Index by Robert Sacks