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Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook–General

FAA-H-8083-30B Version 2023
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Index

  • Safety Around Hazardous Materials — 1-2
    • Acid — 1-2
    • ALK — 1-2
    • CARC — 1-2
    • RAD — 1-2
  • Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) — 1-2
  • Saturable-Core Reactor — 12-119
  • Scales — 6-7
  • Screwdrivers — 11-1
  • Screws — 7-66
    • Identification and Coding — 7-67
    • Machine — 7-67
    • Structural — 7-66
  • Scriber — 11-18
  • Sealed Lead Acid (SLA) Batteries — 12-92
  • Seals — 7-33
    • Packings — 7-34
    • O-Ring — 7-34
    • V-Ring — 7-35
    • Sealing Compounds — 7-35
    • One Part — 7-36
    • Two Part — 7-36
    • Wipers — 7-35
  • Seaplanes — 1-8,10-16
  • Self-Inductance — 12-57
  • Semiconductors — 12-95
    • Reverse Biased Diode — 12-99
  • Series — 12-59
  • Series Circuit — 12-82,12-83
  • Series DC Circuits — 12-33
  • Series-Parallel Circuits — 12-86
  • Series-Parallel DC Circuits — 12-42
  • Service Bulletins (SB) — 2-33
  • Servicing Aircraft — 1-20
    • Ground Support Equipment — 1-21
    • Electric Ground Power Units — 1-21
  • Shock Absorber Cord — 7-33
  • Shock Waves — 5-47
    • Expansion — 5-48
    • Normal Shock — 5-47
    • Oblique Shock — 5-48
  • Shop Safety — 1-1
  • Sine Wave — 12-77
  • Single-Phase Alternator — 12-155
  • Ski Planes — 1-9
  • Slack — 9-21
  • Slide Calipers — 11-25
  • Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) — 2-41
  • Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) — 2-41,7-2
  • soda-acid — 1-5
  • Sodium Dichromate Solution — 8-23
  • Solution Heat Treatment — 7-21
  • Solvent Cleaners — 8-27
  • Sound — 5-30, 5-46
  • Sound Intensity — 5-32
  • Sources of Electricity — 12-22
    • Chemical — 12-23
    • Light — 12-23
    • Pressure — 12-22
    • Thermal — 12-23
  • Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin (SAIB) — 2-27
  • Special Federal Aviation Regulations (SFAR) — 2-1
  • Special Flight Permits — 10-16
  • Special Inspections — 10-12
  • Special Wrenches — 11-5
  • Specific Gravity — 5-2
  • Specific Heat — 5-21
  • Speed — 5-14
  • Speed of Sound — 5-31
  • Spirit Level — 6-11
  • Split-Phase Motor — 12-150
  • Spoiler Recesses — 8-13
  • Square Roots — 3-12
  • Stability — 5-40
    • Directional — 5-42
    • Dutch Roll — 5-42
    • Dynamic — 5-40
    • Lateral — 5-42
    • Longitudinal — 5-41
    • Static — 5-40
  • Static Electricity — 12-4
  • Static Inverters — 12-94
  • Steel — 9-1
  • Stitch Lines — 4-18
  • Strap Wrenches — 11-6
  • Stratosphere — 5-33
  • Stress — 5-12
    • Bending — 5-13
    • Compression — 5-13
    • Shear — 5-13
    • Strain — 5-14
    • Tension — 5-12
    • Torsion — 5-13
  • Structural Repair Manual — 2-33, 4-11, 10-4
  • Subsonic — 5-47
  • Subsonic Flow — 5-37
  • Sun — 5-18
  • Supersonic — 5-47
  • Supplemental Lift-Modifying Devices — 5-45
    • Flaps — 5-45
    • Slats — 5-46
    • Slots — 5-45
  • Supplemental Type Certificates (STC) — 2-4,2-27
  • Suspected Unapproved Parts (SUP) — 2-24
  • Switches — 12-30
  • Synthetic Rubber — 7-32
  • System Safety Services — 14-31

T

  • Tabs — 5-44
    • Anti-servo — 5-44
    • Balance — 5-44
    • Servo — 5-44
    • Trim — 5-44
  • Tantalum — 12-52
  • Tap — 10-36, 11-14
  • Taps and Dies — 11-14
  • Tare Weight — 6-5
  • Taxiing — 1-19
  • Taxi Signals — 1-20
  • Technical Standard Order (TSO) — 2-4
  • Temperature — 5-21
  • Temporary Ballast — 6-22
  • The Atmosphere — 5-32
    • Density — 5-34
    • Pressure — 5-34
  • The “Dirty Dozen” — 14-13
    • Complacency — 14-14
    • Distraction — 14-15
    • Fatigue — 14-16
    • Lack of Assertiveness — 14-22
    • Lack of Awareness — 14-26
    • Lack of Communication — 14-13
    • Lack of Knowledge — 14-14
    • Lack of Resources — 14-18
    • Lack of Teamwork — 14-16
    • Norms — 14-26
    • Pressure — 14-22
    • Stress — 14-24
    • Physical — 14-24
    • Physiological — 14-25
    • Psychological — 14-24
  • The Neutral Plane — 12-127
  • The Pear Model — 14-9
  • The Pilot in command (PIC) — 10-5
  • The RL Time Constant — 12-56
  • Thermal Efficiency — 5-19
  • Thermal Expansion — 5-22
  • Thermal Protectors — 12-29
  • Thermistors — 12-27
  • Thermography — 10-37
  • Three-Phase Alternator — 12-156
  • Three-Phase Induction Motor — 12-148
  • Three Unit Regulators — 12-161
  • Tie-Down Procedures — 1-8
  • Time Constant — 12-50
  • Titanium — 7-9,8-20
  • Titanium Alloys — 7-9,8-20
  • Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR)..2-1 Part 1 Definitions and Abbreviations — 2-3
    • Part 3 General Requirements — 2-1
    • Part 21 Certification Procedures for Products and Parts — 2-3
    • Part 23 Airworthiness Standards: Normal, Utility, Acrobatic, and Commuter Category Airplanes — 2-4
    • Part 25 Airworthiness Standards: Transport Category Airplanes — 2-5
    • Part 27 Airworthiness Standards: Normal Category Rotorcraft — 2-5
    • Part 29 Airworthiness Standards: Transport Category Rotorcraft — 2-5
    • Part 33 Airworthiness Standards: Aircraft Engines — 2-8
    • Part 35 Airworthiness Standards: Propellers — 2-8
    • Part 39 Airworthiness Directives — 2-8
    • part 43 Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, Rebuilding, and Alterations — 2-2
    • Part 45 Identification and Registration Marking — 2-8
    • Part 47 Aircraft Registration — 2-10
    • Part 65 Certification: Airmen Other Than Flight Crewmembers — 2-10
    • part 91 General Operating and Flight Rules — 2-2
    • Part 119 Certification: Air Carriers and Commercial Operators — 2-10
    • Part 121 Operating Requirements: Domestic, Flag, and Supplemental Operations — 2-11
    • Part 125 Certification and Operations: Airplanes Having a Seating Capacity of 20 or More Passengers or a Maximum Payload Capacity of 6,000 Pounds or More; and Rules Governing Persons on Board Such Aircraft — 2-12
    • Part 135 Operating Requirements: Commuter and On- Demand Operations and Rules Governing Persons on Board Such Aircraft — 2-12
    • Part 145 Repair Stations — 2-13
    • Part 147 Aviation Maintenance Technician Schools 2-13 Part 183 Representatives of the Administrator — 2-13
  • Toggle Switch — 12-30
    • Double-Pole, Double-Throw (DPDT) — 12-30
    • Double-Pole, Single-Throw (DPST) — 12-30
    • Single-Pole, Double-Throw (SPDT) — 12-30
    • Single-Pole, Single-Throw (SPST) — 12-30
  • Tolerances — 4-9
  • Torque — 5-4, 7-49,12-138
    • Cotter Pin Hole Line Up — 7-50
    • Torque — 7-49
    • Torque Tables — 7-50
    • Torque Wrenches — 7-49
  • Torque Wrench — 11-5
  • Total Parallel Resistance — 12-40
  • Towing — 1-17
  • Transformer Losses — 12-67
  • Transformers — 12-65
  • Transistors — 12-105
  • Transonic — 5-47
  • Transparent Plastics — 7-29
  • Transportation Security Administration (TSA) — 13-1
  • Trigonometric Functions — 3-24
  • Trimmers — 12-53
  • Troposphere — 5-33
  • True Power — 12-64
  • Turbofan — 1-15
  • Turbofan Engines — 1-15
  • Turboprop — 1-14
  • Turboprop Engines — 1-14
  • Turnbuckles Double Wrap — 7-79
    • Single Wrap — 7-79
  • Twist Drills — 11-12
  • Twisting — 9-21
  • Two-Phase Alternator — 12-156
  • Two Resistors in Parallel — 12-40
  • Type Certificate Data Sheets (TCDS) — 2-30, 6-2, 10-4
  • Type certificates (TCs) — 2-3

U

  • Ultrasonic — 10-21
    • Pulse Echo — 10-22
    • Resonance — 10-24
  • Underwriters Laboratory (UL) — 1-6
  • Unified Coarse (UNC) — 7-37
  • Unified Fine (UNF) — 7-37
  • Uniform Motion — 5-14
  • Universal Bulkhead Fittings — 9-8
  • Universal Numbering System — 4-3
  • U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) — 1-2
  • Useful Load — 6-4

V

  • Vacuum Tubes — 12-110
  • Valence Electrons — 12-2
  • Valves — 7-77
  • Varactors — 12-53
  • Varmeters — 12-75
  • Velocity — 5-14
  • Vernier Scale — 11-23
  • Vertical Axis — 5-43, 5-52
  • Vertical Deflection — 12-77
  • Vibrating-Type Regulator — 12-159
  • Voltage — 12-164
  • Voltage Dividers — 12-37
  • Voltage Regulation — 12-164, 12-171
  • Voltmeter — 12-70

W

  • Washers — 7-46, 7-47
    • Bolt and Hole Sizes — 7-47
    • Installation Practices — 7-48
    • Lock — 7-46
    • Plain — 7-46
    • Repair of Damaged Internal Threads — 7-48
    • Special Washers — 7-47
  • Waterline (WL) — 4-9
  • Wattmeter — 12-76
  • Wave Motion — 5-30
  • Weighing an Aircraft — 6-5
  • Weighing Points — 6-14
  • Weight and Balance — 6-1, 6-6, 6-7
  • Weight-Shift Control — 1-11, 5-56, 6-27
  • Whole Numbers — 3-1
  • Wing Flap — 8-13
  • Wingtip Vortices — 5-40
  • Wiring — 7-77, 7-80
    • Cotter Pin Safetying — 7-80
    • Snap Rings — 7-80
    • Turnbuckles — 7-79
  • Wiring Diagram Manual — 10-4
  • Work — 5-4
  • Wrenches — 11-4
  • Wrought Aluminum — 7-7
  • Wye Connection (Three-Phase) — 12-156

Z

  • Zener Diodes — 12-103
  • Zone Numbers — 4-8