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