I think one of the waivers had something to do with VMC and how it was to be 
handled.  It's been a long time.  I still have all my manuals on both of them 
though,  course the Manuals don't show the waivers.
It was an easy airplane to fly.  Felt kind of funny on the controls because 
of rods instead of cables.  In a cross wind landing it was a flat crab 
because the close proximity of the outboard props to the surface.  V2 plus 10 
 climb was sick.  It needed more IAS to get a decent rate of climb.
This caused some bad habits and in one case I recall a sad situation.  
Continental Airlines had an overnight at Amarilla, Texas.  The Captains side 
window was left ajar and it rained that night.  On takeoff the next morning 
they lifted off and in so doing some water ran down from above on the 
Captains shirt sleeve.  He looked down just as he had leveled off to gain 
some airspeed.  This little peek at his shirt sleeve allowed the aircraft to 
settle back to the runway surface and grind the prop tips.
Well that was the end of the flight.  It caused over temps. and the aircraft 
came to rest off to the side of the runway.  It burned up but all passengers 
and crew evacuated withour injury.
Well it became a sad situation.  The Captain had been the son or son-in-law 
of an Airline that Continental had either merged with or bought out at some 
previous time and the Captain was not in the best of graces  with Continental 
because of some kind of Management disagreement, etc.  To make a long story 
short, the hassle drug on for several weeks or months and in the end the 
Captain ended up committing suicide.  All over a bad procedure that was 
allowed to develop by the Training Dept. on the Airline.  Everyone knew about 
the level off to gain airspeed.  It was an accident waiting to happen.
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