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Weight and Balance Handbook

FAA-H-8083-1B Version 2016

Index

A

  • adverse-loaded CG checks — 7-6
  • aft adverse-load CG check — 7-7
  • aircraft category — 4-3
  • aircraft certification — 4-3
  • aircraft classification — 4-3
  • airplanes — 4-5
  • airships — 4-5
  • airworthiness certificate — 4-4, 4-8
  • alteration — 7-1, 7-5
  • amateur-built aircraft — 4-3, 4-6, 4-8
  • amateur-built LSA — 4-1
  • arm — 2-2, 7-5, 10-5

B

  • balance — 1-4
    • control — 1-4
  • ballast — 3-4, 7-7, 10-7
  • balloon — 1-5, 1-6, 4-5
  • basic empty weight — 5-2, 6-2
  • basic weight and balance equation — 2-4

C

  • cargo — 9-18
  • center of gravity — 2-2, 3-1, 5-1, 9-1, 10-1
    • change — 7-1
    • configuration — 9-18
    • determining — 3-5, 10-4
    • determining changes — 9-6
    • determining lateral CG of a helicopter — 10-5
    • determining the loaded CG — 9-3
    • limits envelope — 5-4
    • range — 2-6
    • range chart — 2-10
  • certificates and documents — 4-8
  • chart method — 6-2, 6-3
  • Civil Aeronautical Administration — 2-6
  • civil air regulations — 2-6, 3-4
  • commuter category — 9-1
  • commuter category airplanes — 9-12
  • comprehensive equipment list — 2-10
  • computer — 10-1
  • consensus standard — 4-3
  • cyclic control — 8-1

D

  • data pertinent to all models — 2-6
  • datum — 3-7
    • aft of the main wheels — 3-7
    • forward of the airplane — 3-6
  • dedicated electronic flight computer — 10-3
  • determining cargo pallet loads — 9-9
  • determining new balance point — 2-3
  • determining weight — 10-6
  • documenting changes — 9-3
  • draining the fuel — 3-4

E

  • E6-B flight computer — 10-1, 10-2
  • effects of weight — 1-3
  • electronic calculator — 10-2
  • electronic load cells — 3-2
  • empty weight — 9-2
  • empty weight center of gravity — 3-2, 6-2, 7-6, 8-3, 9-2
  • empty weight CG range — 2-6
  • equipment for weighing — 3-2
  • equipment list — 3-4, 5-2, 7-2
  • EWCG formulas — 3-6
  • experimental airworthiness certificate — 4-6
  • extensive repair — 3-2

F

  • FAA designee — 4-4
  • finding balance point — 2-3
  • fixed-wing airplane — 1-5
  • fleet operating empty weights (FOEW) — 9-5
  • floor loading limit — 9-9
  • forward adverse-load CG check — 7-7
  • fuel capacity — 2-6
  • fuel dump — 9-12

G

  • gliders — 4-1, 4-5

H

  • helicopter — 1-5, 8-1

I

  • initial weight — 9-2

J

  • jacking the aircraft — 3-5
  • jacks — 3-5