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Helicopter Flying Handbook

FAA-H-8083-21B Version 2019

Index

L

  • Landing stuck left pedal — 11-17
    • stuck neutral or right pedal — 11-17
  • Leading edge — 2-8
  • Lift — 2-3
  • Loading Chart Method — 6-4
  • Low-G Conditions and Mast Bumping — 11-14
  • Low Reconnaissance — 10-2
  • Low Rotor RPM and Rotor Stall — 11-15
  • LTE at Altitude — 11-21

M

  • Main Rotor disk interference (285–315°) — 11-20
    • system — 4-2
    • transmission — 4-11
  • Maximum Performance Takeoff — 10-2
  • Medium and High Frequency Vibrations — 11-23
  • Minimum Equipment Lists (MELs) and Operations with Inoperative Equipment — 8-2
  • Moisture — 7-2
  • Multi-Engine Emergency Operations — 11-23
  • Myopia — 12-2

N

  • Newton’s Third Law of Motion — 2-5
  • Night Flight — 12-7
  • Night Myopia — 12-2
  • Night Traffic Patterns — 12-8
  • Night Vision — 12-4
  • Normal Approach to a Hover — 9-19
  • Normal Approach to the Surface — 9-20
  • Normal Descent — 9-5
  • Normal Takeoff From a Hover — 9-12
  • Normal Takeoff From the Surface — 9-12
  • Normal Takeoffs and Landings — 11-13
  • NOTAR® — 1-3

O

  • Obstruction Detection — 12-5
  • Oculogravic illusion — 13-13
  • Out of Ground Effect — 2-12

P

  • Passengers — 8-4
  • PAVE Checklist — 13-6
  • Pendular Action — 2-15
  • Performance Charts — 7-2
    • climb performance — 7-6
  • Pilot at the Flight Controls — 8-6
  • Pinnacle and Ridgeline Operations — 10-11
  • Pitch Control — 2-17
  • Powered Flight — 2-14
  • Power Failure in a Hover — 11-8
  • Practice Autorotation With A Power Recovery — 11-7
  • Preflight — 8-2,12-7
  • Presbyopia — 12-2

R

  • Ramp Attendants and Aircraft Servicing Personnel — 8-4
  • Rapid Deceleration or Quick Stop — 10-4
  • Rearward Flight — 2-24
  • Reciprocating Engines — 4-14
  • Reconnaissance Procedures — 10-2
  • Recovery From Low Rotor RPM — 11-16
  • Recovery Technique — 11-21
  • Relative-Motion Illusion — 12-6
  • Relative wind — 2-8,2-9
  • Resultant relative wind — 2-8,2-9
  • Retreating Blade — 2-20
  • Retreating Blade Stall — 11-10
  • Reversible Perspective Illusion — 12-6
  • Rigid Rotor System — 4-3
  • Rods — 12-4
  • Root — 2-9
  • Rotational Relative Wind (Tip Path Plane) — 2-9
  • Rotorcraft — 1-1
  • Rotorcraft Flight Manual (RFM) — 5-1
    • aircraft and systems description — 5-5
    • emergency procedures — 5-4
    • general information — 5-2
    • handling, servicing, and maintenance — 5-5
    • normal procedures — 5-5
    • operating limitations — 5-2
    • airspeed — 5-2
    • altitude — 5-3
    • flight — 5-4
    • placards — 5-4
    • powerplant — 5-3
    • rotor — 5-3
    • weight and loading distribution — 5-4
    • performance — 5-5
    • preliminary pages — 5-2
    • safety and operational tips — 5-6
    • supplements — 5-6
    • weight and balance — 5-5
  • Rotor Safety Considerations — 8-3
  • Rotor System — 1-3
  • Running/Rolling Takeoff — 10-3

S

  • Shallow Approach and Running/Roll-On Landing — 10-6
  • Sideward Flight — 2-23
  • Sikorsky, Igor — 1-2
  • Single-Engine Failure — 11-23
  • Slips — 9-4
  • Slope Takeoff — 10-8
  • Slope Takeoffs and Landings — 11-13
  • Stability Augmentations Systems — 4-17
  • Structural Design — 4-12
  • Swash Plate Assembly — 4-6
  • synchropter — 1-4
  • System Malfunctions — 11-16

T

  • Takeoff — 10-10
  • Tandem rotor — 1-3,4-6
  • Taxiing — 9-10
  • Taxi Technique — 12-8
  • The Effect of Weight Versus Density Altitude — 7-3
  • The Four Fundamentals — 9-2
  • Throttle — 1-6
  • Throttle Control — 3-2
  • Thrust — 2-3,2-6
  • Tip — 2-9
  • Traffic Patterns — 9-17
  • Trailing edge — 2-8
  • Translating Tendency or Drift — 2-15
  • Translational Lift — 2-21
  • Transmission System — 4-10
  • Transverse Flow Effect — 2-23
  • Turbine — 4-10
  • Turbine Age — 1-2
  • Turbine Engines — 4-16
  • Turning Flight — 2-24
  • Turns — 9-3
  • Twist — 2-9

U

  • Unanticipated Yaw/Loss of Tail Rotor Effectiveness (LTE) — 11-18
  • Use of Collective — 11-13

V

  • Venturi effect — 2-4
  • Vertical Flight — 2-17
  • Vertical Takeoff to a Hover — 9-6
  • VFR Flight into IMC — 11-24
  • Vision in Flight — 12-2
  • Visual Acuity — 12-3
  • Visual Deficiencies — 12-2
  • Vortex Ring State — 11-9
  • Vuichard Recovery — 11-10