Detailed contents of the Cessna 421B file:
- Aircraft Flight Manual
- 1972 Sales Brochure. Full color photographs, interior amenities, complete list of standard equipment and options, avionics selections.
- 1974 Sales Brochure. Full color photographs, interior amenities, complete list of standard equipment and options, avionics selections.
- Photographs of the interior
- Annotated photographs of the instrument panel, indicating instrument names and locations.
- Annotated photographs of the Power Quadrant, showing locations of the throttles, propellers and mixtures controls, autopilot roll and trim adjust, manual trim controls and indicators, gear selector switch and associated indicators for gear down/up or in transit, pressurization controls and indicators.
- Annotated photograph of the pilot's control wheel, showing switches and controls for autopilot disconnect, flight director go-around, transponder ID, radio push-to-talk, trim sync., fore/aft electric trim, electric trim disconnect, chart light and switch. (Yes, they really do get all of that stuff on the pilot's control wheel.)
Cessna 421B Owner's Manual:
(This is a scan of the original manual)
The complete Operator's Manual for the Cessna 421B, 165 pages, complete specifications, operating procedures, narratives on procedures and equipment.
- Operating checklist
-Description and operating details
-Emergency procedures
-Operating limitations
- Care of the aircraft
- Operational data
- Optional Systems
- Index
Narratives on:
- Preflight inspection
-Engine start procedures
- Taxiing
- Use of the checklist prior to takeoff
- Takeoff, climb cruise, letdown, before landing, landing, after landing
- Alternate induction air system
- Stalls & spins
- Night flying
- Cold weather operation
- Fuel system
- Electrical system
- Landing gear system, normal & emergency
- The pressurization system, heating and air conditioning
- The oxygen system
- The turbocharged engine system, how turbocharged engines operate- with diagrams
- Emergency procedures
- Engine out
- Fire
- Maximum glide with all engine failure
- Icing
- Pressurization failure
- Ditching
- Operational limitations, airspeed limitations, engine instrument markings
- Weight & balance, aircraft loading (with loading charts, load and CG envelopes).
- Care of the aircraft
- Operational data
- Airspeed nomenclature
- Airspeed correction table
- Stall speed chart
- Takeoff distance chart
- Accelerate/stop distance chart
- Single engine takeoff performance chart
- Multi-engine climb data
- Single engine climb data
- Cruise performance charts for Sea Level, 5,000, 10,000, 15,000, 20,000, 25,000 ft.
- Optional Systems
- Fuel
- Deice
- Windshield deice
- Propeller synchronizer
- Air conditionaing
- Fire detection & extinguishing system
- Emergency locator (ELT) system
- Angle of attack indicator