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Helicopter Flying Handbook

FAA-H-8083-21B Version 2019

Index

A

  • Abnormal Vibrations — 11-22
  • Accessory Gearbox — 4-10
  • Advancing Blade — 2-19
  • After Landing and Securing — 8-6
  • Aircraft Servicing — 8-3
  • Airflow horizontal part — 2-9
    • vertical part — 2-9
  • Airflow in Forward Flight — 2-19
  • Airfoil — 2-7
    • nonsymmetrical airfoil (cambered) — 2-8
    • symmetrical Airfoil — 2-8
  • Airframe — 4-1
  • Angle of attack (AOA) — 2-8,2-13
  • Angle of incidence — 2-8,2-12
  • Anti-Icing Systems — 4-19
  • Antitorque Drive Systems — 4-8
  • Antitorque Pedals — 1-6,3-4
  • Antitorque System — 4-7
    • Fenestron — 4-7
    • NOTAR® — 4-8
  • Antitorque System Failure — 11-16
  • Approach and Landing — 10-11,12-9
  • Approaches — 9-18
  • Astigmatism — 12-2
  • Atmospheric Illusions — 12-10
  • Autopilot — 4-18
  • Autorotation — 2-25,2-26,11-2
  • Autorotational Performance — 7-4
  • Autorotation With Turns — 11-6

B

  • Bearingless Rotor System — 4-4
  • Belt Drive Clutch — 4-12
  • Bernoulli's Principle — 2-3
  • Blade span — 2-7

C

  • Callouts — 13-18
  • Carburetor Ice — 4-14
  • Center of Gravity — 6-2
  • Center of pressure — 2-8
  • Centrifugal Clutch — 4-12
  • CG Aft of Aft Limit — 6-3
  • Chord — 2-8
  • Chord line — 2-8
  • Clutch — 4-12
  • Coaxial rotors — 1-4,4-6
  • Cockpit Lights — 12-8
  • Collective pitch control — 1-5,3-2
  • Collision Avoidance at Night — 12-9
  • Combustion Chamber — 4-10
  • Compressor — 4-9
  • Coning — 2-15
  • Control Inputs cyclic — 1-5
  • Coriolis Effect (Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum) — 2-16
  • Critical Conditions — 11-12
  • Crosswind Considerations During Takeoffs — 9-13

D

  • d’Amécourt, Gustave de Ponton — 1-1
  • Decision-Making Process — 13-4
  • Density Altitude — 7-2
  • Determining Empty Weight — 6-2
  • Dissymmetry of Lift — 2-23
  • Downwash — 2-11
  • Drag — 2-3,2-6
    • induced drag — 2-7
    • parasite drag — 2-7
    • profile drag — 2-6
    • total drag — 2-7
  • Dynamic Rollover — 11-11

E

  • Effective Translational Lift (ETL) — 2-22
  • Effect of Weight Versus Density Altitude — 7-3
  • elastomeric bearings — 4-6
  • Electrical Systems — 4-16
  • Emergency Equipment and Survival Gear — 11-27
  • Engine Fuel Control System — 4-14
  • Engines — 4-8
    • reciprocating engine — 4-8
    • turbine engine — 4-8
  • Engine Starting and Rotor Engagement — 8-3,12-8
  • En Route Procedures — 12-9
  • Environmental Systems — 4-18

F

  • Fenestron — 1-3
  • Flicker Vertigo — 12-7
  • Flight Mode Annunciator (FMA) — 13-18
  • Flightpath velocity — 2-8
  • Four Fundamentals — 9-2
  • Freewheeling Unit — 4-7
  • Fuel Supply System — 4-13
  • Fuselage — 4-2

G

  • General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) 5-1 Go-Around — 9-20
  • Governor/Correlator — 3-2
  • Ground Lighting Illusions — 12-10
  • Ground Reference Maneuvers — 9-13
    • rectangular course — 9-14
    • S-turns — 9-15
    • turns around a point — 9-16
  • Ground Resonance — 11-11
  • Gyroscopic Precession — 2-17

H

  • Heading Control — 3-4
  • Height/Velocity Diagram — 7-2
  • helicopter — 1-1
  • Helicopter Night VFR Operations — 12-10
  • High and Low Density Altitude Conditions — 7-2
  • Hovering flight — 2-14
    • forward flight — 9-9
    • performance — 7-4
    • sideward flight — 9-9
    • taxi — 9-10
    • turn — 9-7
  • Hub — 2-9
  • Humidity — 7-2
  • Hydraulics — 4-16

I

  • Illusions Leading to Landing Errors — 12-9
  • Induced flow — 2-8,2-22
    • downwash — 2-11
  • In-Ground Effect — 2-12
  • Intermeshing rotors — 1-4,4-6

K

  • Kaman, Charles H — 1-2