STUDENTS’ MANUAL Basie Plying Prepared by the ARMY AIR FORCES TRAINING COMMAND Visual Training Unit, in collaboration with the CENTRAL INSTRUCTORS SCHOOL Randolph Field, Texas and HEADQUARTERS, AAF, OFFICE OF FLYING SAFETY Safety Education Division ARMY AIR FORCES TRAINING COMMANDYou have successfully completed the first part of the training that will ultimately qualify you es competent airplane commander—ready for combat assignment, There are several considerations important fo your progress in Basic Training. % Keep your eyes on the ultimate objective—combat competence. Even- tually you will be called upon to put into practice the knowledge, skill and experience ‘you are now accumulating hour by hour, day by day. If, throughout your course in Basic Training, you will strive fo see the combat applications of the training you are receiving, you will be repaid many times, % Learn with all your might. Your program of training iz based’on the accu- mulated experience of millions of hours of military flying. But skil and judgment are not handed out on a silver platter. You have to work for them end work hard. The necessarily rapid pace of all phases of fying training calls for a maximum contibu- tion of fime and effort on your pert. 1 It calls also for an attitude of mind which stores away and remembers each day's ‘ogress. For only in that way can you acquire the complete mastery of flying that ‘sential fo your’ success. Ht was prepared fo speed your progress and formation which, if properly used fon tho ground, will greatly multiply the benefit of hours spent in the %& Always keep in mind that the training you are receiving is the same or even better than the training that produced the pilots who are now carrying the battle to the enemy. If yos apply yourself conscientiously and intelligently day by day, there can be no doubt of the final sult, Lieutenant General, U.S.A. Commanding