Air Force Instrument Flight Procedures Manual

[snoopy_1]

U.S. AIR FORCE INSTRUMENT FLIGHT PROCEDURES MANUAL,
free download here
http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/afpubs.asp

Enter INSTRUMENT FLIGHT PROCEDURES in the "LONG TITLE" search box and save both of the files below.

AFMAN11-217V1
AFMAN11-217V2

 

[RJP]

My God, why would you possibly want to read that unless you had to?

 

[snoopy_1]

My God, why would you possibly want to read that unless you had to?

Got a lot of good stuff in it, a hell of a lot better than the FAA Instrument Flying Handbook, another reason I like it is because it focuses on the control and performance concept of instrument flying instead of the primary and secondary method that the FAA does.

 

[TonyC]

Volume I is nothing more than a somewhat updated version of the old Air Force Manual 51-37. It looks like all of the diagrams are cut and pasted from that manual, including the picture of the T-37 and T-38 parked in front of Base Ops at Randolph AFB, TX in the section about altimeter settings. (It'll always be "Fifty-one, Thirty-seven" to me! )


Volume II is something I've never seen before, but I found an outstanding section in there about the 60-to-1 rule (Chapter 6) that alone makes it worth downloading.

Once upon a time I knew a formula to determine the constant bank angle required to maintain an arc, based on airspeed. I asked about it on FlightInfo and was met with nothing but "blank stares." The formula is in this section.

I highly recommend this section for any pilot, but especially for instrument pilots.

 

[sky37d]

Thanks Tony.

 

[philo beddoe]

Control/performance ROCKS!!

 

[Illini Pilot]

The new FAA Instrument Procedures Handbook is a lot better than the old Inst. Flying Handbook...it may even be based off this military handbook going by the name.

 

[TonyC]

The new FAA Instrument Procedures Handbook is a lot better than the old Inst. Flying Handbook...it may even be based off this military handbook going by the name.

You gotta link to a website?



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[plattsburgher]

If you guys like the 11-217 that the AF has up now, keep that e-pubs website bookmarked. The follow on 11-217 is a 3 volume set that will have a lot of information on emerging aviation technologies and procedures, as well as the old stuff that is in there now.

Unfortunately every bigshot in the military gets to take a shot at these new regs and they take just about forever to come out.