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Weight and Balance Handbook

FAA-H-8083-1B Version 2016

Index

K

  • kit-built aircraft — 4-6

L

  • landing gear shock struts — 3-5
  • landing weight — 9-10
  • large aircraft — 9-1
  • lateral balance — 1-4, 8-2
  • lateral CG — 8-3
  • lateral level — 3-5
  • law of the lever — 2-1, 2-2
  • leading edge — 3-8
  • leading edge mean aerodynamic chord (LEMAC) — 7-6, 9-2
  • leveling the aircraft — 3-5
  • lift — 1-2
  • light aircraft — 1-5
  • lighter-than-air aircraft — 4-1, 4-5
  • light sport aircraft (LSA) — 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-6
  • light-sport category — 4-3, 4-4
  • light-sport eligible kit — 4-3
  • load cell scales — 3-2
  • loaded CG — 6-2
    • of a helicopter — 8-3
  • loaded weight — 6-3
  • loading graph method — 5-4
  • locating balance point — 2-2, 2-3
  • location of CG — 3-8
  • longitudinal CG — 8-3

M

  • major alteration — 3-2, 7-3
  • manual computational method — 5-2
  • manufacturer-furnished information — 2-10
  • maximum amount of payload — 9-10
  • maximum baggage — 2-6
  • maximum gross weight — 1-6
  • maximum weights — 2-6
  • mean aerodynamic chord — 2-5, 3-1, 3-8
  • modifying the cargo — 9-6
  • moment — 2-2, 5-4, 7-5
    • index — 5-4, 7-5, 9-2, 10-5
    • limits — 6-3
  • multiengine aircraft — 6-1

N

  • nosewheel airplane with datum ahead of the main wheels — 10-4
  • nosewheel airplane with datum behind the main wheels — 10-4
  • nosewheel landing gear — 3-6, 3-7
  • number of seats — 2-6

O

  • offloading cargo — 9-6
  • offloading passengers — 8-3
  • oil — 3-4
    • capacity — 2-6
  • onboard aircraft weighing system — 9-5
  • operational empty weight (OEW) — 9-5
  • other fluids — 3-5
  • overloading — 1-3

P

  • passengers — 9-16
  • percent mean aerodynamic chord (MAC) — 6-3, 7-6, 9-3, 10-5
  • permanent ballast — 7-8
  • pilot in command — 3-2
  • pilot’s operating handbook — 2-10
  • platform scales — 3-2
  • powered parachute — 1-5, 1-6, 4-1, 4-3, 4-5, 4-6, 4-8
  • preflight planning — 5-2

R

  • ramp wheel scales — 3-2
  • reestablishing the OEW — 9-5
  • registration certificate — 4-8
  • repair — 7-1, 7-3, 7-5

S

  • safety — 3-2, 3-5
  • scale preparation — 3-3
  • shifting cargo — 9-8
  • shifting the balance point — 2-4
  • shifting weight — 2-4, 10-6
  • single-engine aircraft — 5-1
  • solution by chart — 2-4
  • special airworthiness certificate — 4-4, 4-6
  • special light-sport aircraft (SLSA) — 4-5
  • stability — 1-4
  • standard airworthiness certificate — 4-4
  • standard weights — 3-4
  • statement of compliance — 4-3, 4-5
  • stress panels — 3-5
  • stress plates — 3-5
  • Swept-wing airplanes — 1-5

T

  • tailwheel airplane with datum ahead of the main wheels — 10-4
  • tailwheel airplane with datum behind the main wheels — 10-4
  • tailwheel landing gear — 3-7
  • temperatures change — 3-4
  • temporary ballast — 7-8
    • formula — 7-8
  • total weight — 9-2
  • trailing edge — 3-8
  • trim setting — 9-6
  • twin-engine airplane — 6-1
  • type certificate data sheet — 2-6, 3-8, 5-2, 7-6
  • typical placard — 7-7

U

  • using fuel — 8-3