F/A-18C Hornet Flight Manual [chapter-1] REV18012022 (pdf)

F/A-18C Hornet Flight Manual [chapter-1] (pdf)
REV18012022

Hey everyone!

I started out working on this manual about 1 ½ years ago.
My first idea was creating an as thorough checklist, which you can convert into a kneeboard, and going through all the checklist step by step, so nothing is left out.

It takes you from a “cold & dark” hornet, to starting up, loading weapons, taking off etc…

But soon this project got bigger and bigger. So, I ended up with a 300+ pages manual which was truly not practical for kneeboard use.

So, I picked all necessary items and put them into another manual.

The pdf is formatted like this…
As pdf, it is best read with two pages side by side.
The “index” page lets you jump directly to the according chapters, by clicking on the applicable chapter.
The “F/A-18C Flight Manual” title on the bottom of every page brings you back to the “index” page.
Throughout the manual, there are certain things underlined (hyperlinks). These are referenced to Wikipedia, in case you want to learn more about the system involved.

The “stores” weapon pages (created by “Pokeraccio”, again many thanks that he approves me to use his tables in this manual, being available for the DCS fellows) has all the different weapons sorted by the available stations on the hornet. All of those are also “clickable”, making it possible to jump to the chosen weapons, without tedious jumping from page to page.

Another mention and a big "THANK YOU” is for “Minsky”, as I used his great threats table on page 69.

A last and great thank you is to "Pieterras" for his work on the whole CASE recovery feature... Took his approach of lighting use during carrier night ops...

So much great stuff people contribute in this community!

Last sidenote:
While creating this manual, I tried to be as thorough as possible, but surely there will be mistakes burrowed in the pages. Hope there won’t be many, but if you stumble across anything that is wrong just write a PM.

So, hope it helps!

Greets...
cruizzzzer



REVISION RECORD: (as shown on the pdf on the lower left corner of each page by REV"day","month","year")

REV18012022
major overhaul