PILOT'S HANDBOOK OF
Flight Operating Instructions
AN 01-20EG-1
Dated August 1, 1944
(Includes revisions to August 22, 1949)
116 Pages

B-17G Graphic

Table of Contents

I. Description
  • Airplane
  • Power Plant
  • Hydraulic System
  • Fuel System
  • Oil System
  • Electrical System
  • Heating
  • Vacuum and De-icing System
  • Oxygen System
  • Communications Equipment
II. Pilot's Operating Instructions
  • Restrictions
  • Operational Equipment
  • Minimum Crew Requirements
  • Flight Instructions
III. Emergency Instructions
  • Hand Cranks
  • Emergency Operation of Landing gear
  • Emergency Operation of the Tail Wheel
  • Emergency Operation of Wing Flaps
  • Emergency Operation of Bomb Doors
  • Emergency Bomb Release
  • Fire in Flight
  • Warning Signals
  • First-Aid Kits
  • Emergency Release of Ball Turret
  • How to Bail Out of the B-17
  • Crash Landing
  • How to Ditch the B-17G
  • Emergency Operation of Radio Equipment
  • Emergency Ice Removal From Carburetors
  • Landing With One Main Gear Retracted
  • Emergency Braking Procedure
IV. Bombardier's Compartment
  • Bomb Controls
  • Bombardier's Guns
  • Interphone
  • Oxygen
  • Bomb-Sight Heating Pad
V. Navigator's Compartment
  • Fire Extinguisher
  • Interphone
  • Oxygen
  • Drift Meter Master Switch
  • Radio Compass Receiver
  • Gyro Flux Gate Compass
VI. Upper Turret
  • General
  • Preflight Check
  • Turret Operation
  • Adjacent Equipment
VII. Bomb Bay
  • Lighting
  • Oxygen
  • Emergency Equipment
  • Bomb Rack Selector Switches
  • Relief Tube
  • Tokyo Tanks Shut-Off Valves
VIII. Radio Compartment
  • Lighting
  • Emergency Equipment
  • Oxygen Controls
  • Heating and Ventilation Inlet
  • Interphone Controls
  • Communications Equipment
  • Frequency Meter
  • Radio Compartment Gun
  • Camera Pit
IX. Ball Turret
  • General
  • Entering the Turret
  • Preflight Check
  • Operation
  • Interphone
  • Suit Heater
  • Oxygen
  • Adjacent Equipment
X. Side Gunner's Compartment
  • Interphone Controls
  • Suit Heater Outlet
  • Oxygen
  • Emergency Equipment
  • Gun Operation
XI. Tail Gunner's Compartment
  • Entrance
  • Lighting
  • Interphone
  • Oxygen
  • Suit Heater Outlet
Appendix
  • Deleted 1 March 1948
  • Flight Operation Data
  • Engineering Flight Data

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