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Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook–General

FAA-H-8083-30B Version 2023
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Index

Index opener from the Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook–General.
Index opener from the Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook–General.

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  • 100-Hour Inspections — 10-5

A

  • Abrasive Papers — 8-28
  • Acceleration — 5-15
  • AC Circuits — 12-59
  • AC Motors — 12-147
    • Direction of Rotation of Induction — 12-150
    • Induction Motor Slip — 12-149
    • Rotating Magnetic Field — 12-148
    • Shaded Pole Induction — 12-149
    • Single-Phase Induction — 12-149
    • Split-Phase — 12-150
    • Synchronous — 12-151
    • Three-Phase Induction — 12-148
  • Acoustic Emission — 10-28
  • AC Series — 12-152
  • Acting force — 5-17
  • Advancing Blade — 5-56
  • Adverse-Loaded CG Checks — 6-20
  • Advisory Circulars (ACs) — 2-10
  • Aerodynamic Heating — 5-49
  • Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM) — 1-20
  • After Solution — 7-22
  • Aircraft Certification Service (AIR) — 2-2
  • Aircraft Drawings — 4-1
  • Aircraft Listings — 2-27
  • Aircraft Logs — 10-1
  • Aircraft Maintenance Manual (AMM) — 2-33, 2-44, 4-11
  • Aircraft Maintenance Technicians (AMTs) — 1-1
  • Aircraft on ground (AOG) — 14-19
  • Aircraft Registration — 2-37
  • Aircraft Theory of Flight — 5-36
  • Aircraft Weighing — 6-1
  • Airfoils — 5-38
  • Airplane Flight Manual (AFM) — 2-33,6-7
  • Air traffic control (ATC) — 2-22
  • Air Transport Association (ATA) — 10-4
  • Air Transport Association (ATA) 100 — 2-30
  • Airworthiness Directives (AD) — 2-26
  • Airworthiness Directives (ADs) — 10-4
  • Airworthiness Limitations — 2-33
  • Alclad Aluminum — 7-21
  • Aliphatic and Aromatic Naphtha — 8-27
  • Allowances — 4-9
  • Allowances and Tolerances — 4-9
  • Alloying — 7-7
  • Alodizing — 8-22
  • Alternating Current (AC) — 12-43
  • Alternators — 12-154,12-171
  • Alternator Transistorized Regulators — 12-172
  • Altimeter — 10-12
  • Aluminum — 7-5
  • Aluminum Alloy Rivets — 7-24
  • Aluminum Alloys — 7-5, 7-20, 7-23
  • Aluminum Alloy Tubing — 9-1
  • American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) — 7-2
  • American National Fine (NF) — 7-37
  • American National Standards Institute (ANSI) — 4-7
  • Amplifier Circuits — 12-113
    • Classification — 12-113
    • Class A — 12-114
    • Class AB — 12-114
    • Class B — 12-114
    • Class C — 12-114
  • AN Flared Fittings — 9-8
  • Angle of Attack — 5-38
  • Annealing — 7-23
  • Anodizing — 8-22
  • Anti-Torque Systems — 5-50
  • Apparent Power — 12-64
  • Approved Airplane Inspection Program (AAIP) — 2-12
  • Arc Fault Circuit Breaker — 12-29
  • Arm — 6-2
  • Armatur — 12-155
  • Armature — 12-130,12-131
    • Drum-Type — 12-130
    • Gramme-Ring — 12-130
  • Atom — 12-1
  • Attraction — 5-1
  • Autorotation — 5-56
  • Auxiliary Power Units (APUs) — 1-4,1-16
  • Aviation gasoline (AVGAS) — 1-25
  • Aviation Gasoline (AVGAS) — 1-25
  • Aviation Safety Inspector (ASI) — 2-4
  • Axes of an Aircraft — 5-40

B

  • Baking Soda — 8-29
  • Ballast — 6-22
  • Barcol Tester — 7-27
  • Basic Inspection — 10-1
    • Preparation — 10-1
    • Techniques/Practices — 10-1
  • Batteries — 12-87
    • Lead-Acid — 12-91
    • Primary Cell — 12-87
    • Secondary Cell — 12-87
  • Bearing Load Fasteners — 7-60
  • Bending — 9-21
  • Bernoulli’s Principle — 5-29, 5-37
  • Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement (BASA) — 2-18
  • Bilge Areas — 8-12
  • Bill of Material — 4-7
  • Binary Number System — 3-27
  • Blade Flapping — 5-55
  • Bolts — 7-37, 7-47
    • Close Tolerance — 7-38
    • General Purpose — 7-37
    • Identification and Coding — 7-38
    • Internal Wrenching — 7-38
    • Special-Purpose — 7-39
  • Bonded — 10-26
  • Borescope — 10-18
  • Boundary Layer Airflow — 5-39
  • Boyle’s Law — 5-22, 5-24
  • Brinell Tester — 7-26
  • British Thermal Unit (BTU) — 5-3
  • Brushless Alternator — 12-157
  • Buna-N — 9-16
  • Buoyancy — 5-26
  • Butyl — 9-16

C

  • Calipers — 11-19
  • Camber — 5-38
  • Capacitance — 12-50
    • Alternating Current — 12-54
    • Capacitive Reactance Xc — 12-54
    • Direct Current — 12-50
    • Parallel — 12-54
    • Reactances in Series and in Parallel — 12-55
    • Series — 12-53
  • Capacitor — 12-50
  • Capacitor Start Motor — 12-150
  • Capstan servo — 4-2
  • Carbon dioxide (CO2) extinguishers — 1-5
  • Casting — 7-28
  • Center of gravity (CG) — 2-5, 5-40, 6-3
  • Centigrade scale — 5-21
  • Centripetal force — 5-17
  • Cessna 172 — 5-11
  • CG Envelopes — 6-24
  • CG Range — 6-15
  • Charles’ Law — 5-25
  • Checklists — 10-2
  • Chemical Cleaners — 8-29
  • Chemical Energy — 5-18
  • Chisels — 11-9
  • Chord Line — 5-38
  • Circuit Breaker — 12-29
  • Circuit Protection Devices — 12-27
  • Circular Conductors — 12-20
  • Circular Motion — 5-17
  • Civil Air Regulations (CAR) — 2-23
  • Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) — 2-23,14-28
  • Cleaning — 8-23,8-24
    • Exterior — 8-23
    • Interior — 8-24
    • Container Controls — 8-25
    • Fire Prevention Precautions — 8-25
    • Fire Protection Recommendations — 8-26
    • Flammable and Combustible Agents — 8-25
    • Nonflammable Aircraft Cabin Cleaning Agents and Solvents — 8-25
    • Types of Cleaning Operations — 8-24
  • Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs) — 10-4
  • Commutators — 12-130
  • Compensating Windings — 12-131
  • Component Maintenance Manual (CMM) — 2-33
  • Composite Materials — 7-30
  • Compressibility Effects — 5-46
  • Computer Graphics — 4-1
    • Computer Aided Design (CAD) — 4-1
    • Computer Aided Design Drafting (CADD) — 4-1
    • Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) — 4-1
    • Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) — 4-1
  • Computing Area of Two-Dimensional Solids — 3-18
  • Computing Surface Area of Three-Dimensional Solids 3-23 Computing Volume of Three-Dimensional Solids — 3-20
  • Conduction — 5-19
  • Conductors — 12-18, 12-23
  • Contamination Control — 1-25
  • Convection — 5-20
  • Conventional Flow — 12-14
  • Cooling Air Vents — 8-13
  • Copper — 7-10, 9-1
  • Copper Alloys — 7-10
  • Corrosion — 8-1
    • Forms — 8-5
    • Concentration Cell — 8-6
    • Active-Passive — 8-7
    • Metal Ion Concentration — 8-7
    • Oxygen Concentration — 8-7
    • Dissimilar Metal — 8-6
    • Exfoliation — 8-7
    • Fatigue — 8-9
    • Filiform — 8-5
    • Fretting — 8-9
    • Galvanic — 8-10
    • Intergranular — 8-7
    • Pitting — 8-6
    • Stress-Corrosion/Cracking — 8-7
    • Surface — 8-5
    • Types — 8-2
    • Direct Chemical Attack — 8-2
    • Electrochemical Attack — 8-3
  • Corrosion Control — 8-1,8-21
  • Corrosion Limits — 8-20
  • Corrosion Prone Areas — 8-11
  • Corrosion Removal — 8-14
  • Counter Electromotive Force (emf) — 12-142
  • Countersink — 11-14
  • Couplants — 10-26
  • Coupling — 12-115
    • Direct — 12-115
    • Impedance — 12-116
    • RC — 12-115
    • Transformer — 12-116
  • Cube Roots — 3-13
  • Current — 12-16
  • Current Dividers — 12-41
  • Current Limiter — 12-29
  • Current Transformers — 12-67

D

  • Dalton’s Law — 5-25
  • Datum — 6-2, 6-17
  • DC Generator — 12-123,12-135
    • Compound Wound — 12-134
    • Series Wound — 12-132
    • Shunt Wound — 12-133
  • DC Motor — 12-137, 12-138, 12-140
    • Armature — 12-140
    • Brush — 12-141
    • End Frame — 12-141
    • Field — 12-141
  • DC Voltage — 12-125
  • decibel (dB) — 5-32
  • Defueling — 1-28
  • Delta Connection (Three Phase) — 12-156
  • Density — 5-2
  • Department of Defense (DoD) — 2-41
  • Department of Transportation — 2-1
  • Designated Airworthiness Representatives (DAR) — 2-14
  • Designated Engineering Representatives (DER) — 2-13
  • Designated Manufacturing Inspection Representatives (DMIR) — 2-14
  • Dies — 11-14
  • Differential Relay Switch — 12-162
  • Digital Images — 4-23
  • Digital Multimeter — 12-78
  • Dihedral — 5-42
  • Doping — 12-96
  • Doppler Effect — 5-32
  • Double Flaring — 9-5
    • Beading — 9-7
    • Double Flaring Instructions — 9-5
    • Fittings — 9-5
    • Flareless Fittings — 9-5
  • Drain Cocks — 7-77
  • Drills — 11-12
  • Dual In-Line Parallel (DIP) Switches — 12-33

E

  • Eddy Current — 10-20
  • Electrical Conductivity — 10-37
  • Electrical Energy — 5-18
  • Electrical Safety — 1-1
    • Fire Safety — 1-1
    • Physiological Safety — 1-1
  • Electrochemical Test — 7-4
  • Electrodynamometer Meter Movement — 12-74
  • Electrolytic — 12-52
  • Electromagnetism — 12-12
  • Electromotive Force (Voltage) — 12-14
  • Electron — 12-2
    • Conductors — 12-3
    • Conductors, Insulators, and Semiconductors — 12-2
    • Insulators — 12-3
    • Semiconductors — 12-4
  • Electron Flow — 12-14
  • Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator — 3-27
  • Electronic Weighing — 6-28
  • Electron Shells — 12-2
  • Electrons, Protons, and Neutrons — 12-1
  • Electrostatic Field — 12-5
  • Element — 12-1
  • Elements of Human Factors — 14-2
    • Anthropometry — 14-4
    • Clinical Psychology — 14-3
    • Cognitive Science — 14-4
    • Computer Science — 14-4
    • Educational Psychology — 14-5
    • Experimental Psychology — 14-3
    • Industrial Engineering — 14-5
    • Medical Science — 14-4
    • Organizational Psychology — 14-4
    • Safety Engineering — 14-4
  • Empty Weight — 6-4
  • Empty Weight Center of Gravity (EWCG) — 6-2, 6-4
  • Empty Weight Center of Gravity (EWCG) Range — 6-15
  • Emulsion Cleaners — 8-28
    • Solvent Emulsion — 8-28
    • Water Emulsion — 8-28
  • Energy — 5-2,12-20
  • Engine Frontal — 8-13
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — 1-6
  • Ethics — 13-6
  • Exosphere — 5-33
  • Extinguishers — 1-5
    • Bromochlorodifluoromethane (Halon 1211) — 1-6
    • Bromotrifluoromethane (Halon 1301) — 1-6
    • Carbon dioxide (CO2) — 1-5
    • Chlorobromomethane (Halon 1011) — 1-6
    • Dibromodifluoromethane (Halon 1202) — 1-6
    • Halogenated hydrocarbon — 1-6
    • Methyl bromide (Halon 1001) — 1-6
  • Extruding — 7-28

F

  • FAA — 2-30
  • FAA Involvement — 14-1
  • Fasteners Airloc — 7-66
    • Camloc — 7-65
    • Captive — 7-64
    • Hi-Tigue — 7-61
    • Taper-Lok — 7-61
    • Turn Lock — 7-64
  • Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) — 1-20,14-30
    • FAA Safety Team — 14-31
    • FAA’s Maintenance Fatigue Section — 14-30
  • Federal Communications Commission (FCC) — 2-38
  • Ferrous — 7-2
  • Ferrous Metals — 7-16
  • Fiber Reinforce — 7-31
  • Field Effect Transistors — 12-107
  • Field Frame — 12-128
  • Field Rotation — 12-155
  • Files — 11-9
    • Flat — 11-10
    • Half-Round — 11-10
    • Hand — 11-10
    • Knife — 11-11
    • Lead-Float — 11-10
    • Mill — 11-10
    • Round or Rattail — 11-10
    • Square — 11-10
    • Triangular and Three Square — 11-10
    • Vixen (Curved-Tooth Files) — 11-11
    • Warding — 11-10
    • Wood — 11-11
  • Filtering — 12-111
  • Fire Extinguishers — 1-7,1-8
  • Fire Protection — 1-5
    • Using Fire Extinguishers — 1-8
  • Fire Safety — 1-5
  • Fittings — 9-1
  • Fixed base operator (FBO) — 14-14
  • Fixed Resistor — 12-24
  • Flex — 9-21
  • Flexible Hose — 9-16,9-18
  • Flexible Wing Aircraft — 5-56
  • Flight Controls — 6-14
  • Flight Management System (FMS) — 6-28
  • Flight Standards District Office (FSDO) — 2-2,10-12
  • Flight Standards Service (AFS) — 2-2
  • Float-type carburetor — 5-30
  • Fluid Lines — 9-7, 9-16, 9-17
  • Fluid Pressure — 5-27
  • Fluids — 6-14
  • Flux Density — 10-30
  • Force — 5-4
  • Foreign Object Damage (FOD) — 1-4, 9-1
  • Forging — 7-27
  • Form 337, Major Repair and Alteration — 2-38
  • Forms — 2-33
  • Forward Biased Diode — 12-98
  • Forward Flight — 5-54
  • four forces of flight — 5-4, 5-36
    • Power — 5-6
    • Torque — 5-6
    • Work — 5-4
    • Rolling — 5-6
    • Sliding — 5-5
    • Static — 5-5
  • Fractional Powers — 3-13
  • Fractions — 3-2
  • Free Electrons — 12-2
  • Freon — 1-6
  • Frequency — 12-158
  • Frequency Measurement — 12-76
  • Frequency of Sound — 5-31
  • Fueling Hazards — 1-26
  • Fueling Procedures — 1-26
  • Fuel System — 6-13
  • Fundamentals of Electricity and Electronics — 12-1
  • Fuse — 12-28
  • Fuselage stations (FS) — 4-9

G

  • Gaskets — 7-35
  • Gas Laws — 5-23
  • Gauge pressure (psig) — 5-23
  • Gear — 5-10
  • General Gas Law — 5-25
  • Generator Brushes — 12-136
  • Generator Control Units (GCU) — 12-164
  • Generator Terminals — 12-135
  • Gravity — 5-2
  • Ground Air Heating — 1-24
  • Ground Movement of Aircraft — 1-11
  • ground power unit (GPU) — 1-21
  • Ground Support Air Units — 1-23
  • Ground Support Equipment (GSE) — 14-12

H

  • Hacksaws — 11-8
  • Halogenated hydrocarbon extinguishers — 1-6
  • Hammers — 11-1
  • Hand Tool — 11-1
  • Hardening — 7-29
  • Hardness Testing — 7-25
  • Hearing Protection — 1-4
  • Heat — 5-18
  • Heat Transfer — 5-19
  • Heat Treatment — 7-16,7-24
    • Annealing — 7-19
    • Case Hardening — 7-20
    • Carburizing — 7-20
    • Nitriding — 7-20
    • Hardening — 7-17
    • Hardening Precautions — 7-19
    • Normalizing — 7-19
  • Heat Treatment of Magnesium Alloys — 7-24
  • Heat Treatment of Nonferrous Metals — 7-20
  • Heat Treatment of Titanium — 7-25
    • Full Annealing — 7-25
    • Stress Relieving — 7-25
    • Thermal Hardening — 7-25
  • Helicoils — 7-49
  • Helicopters — 1-10
  • Helicopter Structures — 5-49
  • Helicopter Weighing — 6-25
  • Helicopter Weight and Balance — 6-25
  • High-Speed Aerodynamics — 5-46
  • High-Speed Airfoils — 5-48
  • Hole Repair — 7-70
    • Push-Pull Tube Linkage — 7-72
    • Repair of Damaged Holes with Acres Fastener Sleeves — 7-71
  • Hole Repair Hardware — 7-70
  • Horizontal Deflection — 12-77
  • Hose Clamps — 9-22
  • Hose Fittings — 9-21
  • Human Error — 14-13
  • Human Factors — 14-1,14-2,14-6
  • Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) — 14-31
  • Human Factors on Aviation Maintenance and Inspection (HFAMI) — 14-13
  • Hydraulic Ground Power Units — 1-22
  • Hydraulic lock — 1-12
  • Hydraulic Transmission — 12-165
  • Hydrochloric acid vapor — 1-6
  • Hydrometer — 6-12

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