Airplane Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-3C)
Index
Abnormal engine instrument indication
Absence of propeller:
Drag
Effect
Slipstream
Academic material (knowledge and risk management)
Prevention through ADM and risk management
Prevention through proportional counter-response
Recovery
Accelerated stalls
Accelerate-go distance
Accelerate-stop distance
After-landing
After-landing roll
Aircraft energy management
Airframe and systems
Airplane-based UPRT
Airplane configuration
Airplane equipment and lighting
Airport and navigation lighting aids
Airport traffic patterns and operations
All-attitude/all-envelope flight training methods
All-engine service ceiling of multiengine airplanes
Alternator/generator
Angle of attack
Anti-icing/deicing
Approach (in an emergency)
Approach and landing (night)
Night emergencies
Approach and landing (sport)
Approaches to stalls (impending stalls), power-on, or power-off
Attitude and sink rate control
Attitude flying
13-10, 13-12
13-10, 13-12, 13-15, 16-12
1-15, 2-22
2-22, 9-2, 9-9, 9-10, 9-16, 9-18, 9-21, 9-22, 9-23, 9-36, 9-38, 14-6,
14-7, 14-8
3-21, 5-19, 6-1, 9-1, 18-4
2-12, 13-6, 13-9, 18-10
1-13, 1-14, 4-5, 5-1, 5-9, 5-10, 5-11, 5-12, 6-1, 9-8, 10-2, 12-1, 12-6,
13-19, 13-25, 13-26, 14-1, 15-8, 16-6, 16-7, 17-15
13-9, 13-10
Index-1
Autoland systems 18-22
Ballistic parachute systems
Ballooning during round out
Bank control
Basic safety concepts
Before start and starting engine
Before-take-off check
Avionics
Electrical system
Engine operation
Flight controls
Flight instruments
Fuel system
Takeoff briefing
Trim
Vacuum system
Bouncing during touchdown
Brakes
Cabin fire
Captain's briefing
Cascade reversers
Chandelle
Climb gradient
Climbs and climbing turns
Climbing turns
Establishing a climb
Best angle of climb (VX)
Best rate of climb (VY)
Normal climb
Combustion heater
Constant radius turn during flight
Construction
Aluminum
Composite
3-5, 6-5, 18-18
2-21, 13-11, 13-15, 17-4
2-10, 2-11, 2-16, 2-17, 2-19, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23, 6-3, 6-11,
9-9, 9-10. 9-18, 9-20, 9-23, 9-24, 9-36, 9-37, 9-38, 11-8, 13-14,
13-15, 13-16, 13-17, 13-21, 14-1, 14-2, 14-3, 14-7, 14-8,
16-9, 16-10, 16-12, 16-14, 16-15, 16-16, 16-19, 16-24, 17-12
18-9, 18-10
16-13, 16-14
10-4, 10-5, 10-6
12-16, 13-2, 13-3, 13-10, 13-11, 13-12, 16-20
3-17, 3-18, 4-17, 13-1, 16-17
3-17, 3-18, 4-17, 6-4, 6-6, 13-1, 13-16, 16-17
3-17, 6-12, 6-13, 11-8
Index-2
Steel tube and fabric 17-5
Continuous ignition 15-1
Controllable-pitch propeller 3-19, 12-1, 12-5, 12-6
Blade angle control 12-6, 12-7
Climb 12-6, 12-7
Constant-speed propeller 10-5, 12-5, 12-6, 12-7, 12-8, 13-3, 13-5, 13-9, 15-6, 18-9
Constant-speed propeller operation 12-8
Cruise 12-7
Fixed-pitch propellers 3-3, 10-5, 12-5, 12-8, 13-9
Governing range 12-8, 15-5
Takeoff 12-6
Control touch 1-1, 16-16
Coordinated flight 3-11, 3-12, 3-13, 3-23, 5-1, 5-6, 5-8, 5-9, 5-11, 5-13, 5-16,
5-17, 5-18, 5-20, 6-5, 6-6, 6-14, 7-17, 9-3, 9-13, 10-5, 10-7, 13-21,
Coordination 1-1
Correcting drift during straight-and-level flight 7-2
Cross-control stall 5-20
Crosswind after-landing roll (tailwheel) 14-7
Crosswind approach and landing 9-3, 9-10, 9-15, 9-17, 13-21, 17-4
Crosswind after landing roll 9-18
Crosswind final approach 9-15
Crab method 9-15
Wing-low (sideslip) method 9-15, 9-16
Crosswind round out (flare) 9-17
Crosswind touchdown 9-17
Maximum safe crosswind velocities 9-18
Crosswind takeoff 6-6, 13-15, 14-3
Initial climb 6-8, 13-15, 13-16
Lift-off 6-7
Takeoff roll 6-6
Cruise 17-13
Defining an airplane upset 5-1
Descents and descending turns 3-20, 3-24, 5-10
Descent at minimum safe airspeed 3-21
Emergency descent 3-21, 10-3, 15-15, 18-8, 18-9, 18-10, 18-22
Partial power descent 3-21
Detonation 2-7, 2-8, 12-8, 12-11
Index-3
Directional control 2-19, 3-9, 5-11, 5-17, 5-22, 6-1, 6-14, 9-9, 9-18, 9-23, 9-33,
9-34, 9-37, 9-38, 13-2, 13-15, 13-17, 13-18, 13-23, 13-25, 13-26,
13-27,13-29, 13-30, 13-31, 13-32, 13-33, 13-36, 13-37, 14-1, 14-2, 14-3,
14-5, 14-6, 14-7, 16-11, 16-14, 16-16, 16-24, 18-12, 18-13
Door opening in-flight 18-17
Drag devices 4-4, 16-9, 16-11
Drift and ground track control 7-2
Effect and use of flight controls 3-1
Feel of the airplane 3-3
Electrical fires 18-9
Elementary eights 7-10, 7-13,
Eights across a road 7-10, 7-12
Eights along a road 7-10, 7-11, 7-12
Eights around pylons 7-10, 7-13, 7-14
Eights-on-pylons 7-14, 7-15, 7-16, 7-17, 7-18
Elevator trim stall 5-20, 5-21
Emergencies 3-23, 9-29, 11-5, 11-13, 13-35, 13-36, 15-13, 15-14, 15-15, 17-14,
Emergency approaches and landings (simulated) 9-28
Emergency descents 3-21, 10-3, 15-15, 18-8, 18-9, 18-10, 18-22
Emergency landings 9-28, 18-1
Psychological hazards 18-1
Types of emergency landings 18-1
Ditching 3-23, 18-1, 18-7
Forced landing 7-2, 9-12, 11-13, 12-6
Precautionary landing 18-1, 18-8
Emergency situations 11-1, 17-14, 18-1, 18-22, 18-23
Energy balance equation 4-3, 4-4, 4-18
Energy error 4-12, 4-14, 4-19
Energy distribution error 4-12, 4-13, 4-19
Total energy error 4-12, 4-19
Energy exchange 4-2, 4-4, 4-5, 4-6, 4-8, 4-10, 4-18
Energy height or total specific energy (ES) 4-7, 4-9, 4-19
Energy state 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-6, 4-7, 4-8, 4-9, 4-10, 4-11, 4-12, 4-14, 4-18, 4-19,
5-13, 16-18
Energy system 4-1, 4-18
Engine and propeller 2-11, 3-3, 6-1, 6-3, 13-12, 13-34, 15-3, 15-6
Engine failure:
After lift-off 13-11
After takeoff 13-31, 13-32, 13-33
Index-4
After takeoff (single-engine) 18-7
During flight 13-34
Engine fire 13-32, 18-8, 18-9
Engine inoperative approach and landing 13-34
Engine inoperative flight principles 13-23
Engines 17-6
Engine shutdown 2-23
Engine starting 2-16
Environmental factors 2-13, 5-2
Exhaust gas temperature (EGT) 12-10, 12-11, 13-15
False start 15-12
Faulty approaches and landings 9-30
Feathering 2-21, 9-25, 13-3, 13-5, 13-6, 13-7, 13-29, 13-30, 13-35, 13-36, 15-1,
15-5, 18-9
Flap effectiveness 12-3
Flap control malfunction/failure 18-10
Asymmetric (split) flap 18-11
Landing gear malfunction 18-12
Loss of elevator control 18-11
Total flap failure 18-10
Flight director/autopilot 13-8
Flight environment 2-1, 15-13, 15-14, 17-8
Flight standards service 1-5
Floating during round out 9-32
Forward slip 9-4, 9-12, 9-13, 9-14, 9-15, 9-26, 9-30
Four fundamentals 3-1, 7-1
Climbs 3-17
Descents 3-20
Straight-and-level 3-6
Turns 3-11
Fowler flap 12-4
Fuel and oil 2-7
Fuel crossfeed 13-7
Full stalls:
Power-off 5-17
Power-on 5-18
Function of flaps 12-1
Fundamentals of stall recovery 5-15
Index-5
Gas turbine engine
Glides
Gliding turns
Go-around
Rejected landings
Attitude
Configuration
Ground effect
Power
Ground loop
Ground operation
Hand propping
Hard landing
High final approach
High-performance airplane
High round out
Human factors
Diversion of attention
Sensory overload/deprivation
Spatial disorientation
Startle response
Surprise response
Task saturation
VMC to IMC
Hydraulic pump
Hydroplaning
Dynamic hydroplaning
Reverted rubber hydroplaning
Viscous hydroplaning
Impossible turn
Inadvertent flight into IMC
Attitude control
15-1, 15-2, 15-8, 16-2
3-21, 3-23, 9-24
3-23, 3-24
4-17, 5-9, 5-17, 5-20, 5-21, 8-4, 9-6, 9-10, 9-11, 9-12, 9-22, 9-30,
9-31, 9-32, 9-33, 9-34, 9-35, 12-4, 12-5, 13-22, 13-23, 13-30, 13-33,
13-35, 14-5, 14-6, 16-4, 16-20, 16-22, 17-4
9-10, 9-12
2-19, 9-9, 9-36, 9-37, 14-6, 14-8, 18-5
2-1, 2-12, 2-14, 13-14, 14-1, 14-8, 15-3, 15-6, 17-4
2-16, 2-17
9-20, 9-22, 9-23, 9-35, 12-4, 13-22, 16-23, 17-15
12-1, 12-17, 12-18
9-10, 9-31
12-12, 12-14, 13-30, 18-9
9-37, 9-38
5-1, 5-2, 5-3, 5-26, 18-17
3-5, 18-17, 18-18
Index-6
Climbs 18-20
Combined maneuvers 18-21
Descents 18-20
Maintaining airplane control 18-18
Recognition 18-17
Transition to visual flight 18-22
Turns 18-19
In-flight fire 15-14, 18-9
Initial climb 6-1, 6-5, 6-6, 6-8, 6-10, 6-11, 6-12, 6-13, 6-14, 12-16, 13-15, 13-16,
13-17, 13-29, 14-4, 15-2, 15-15, 16-2, 16-17,
Inside the airplane 2-21, 6-12, 17-9
Instrumentation 3-3, 3-5, 5-2, 5-4, 11-4, 17-7, 18-15, 18-23
Integrated flight instruction 3-5, 3-6
Intentional slips 9-12
Intentional spins 5-25, 5-26
Interstage turbine temperature (ITT) 15-4, 15-5, 15-8
Irreversible deceleration and/or sink rate 4-1, 4-5, 4-11, 4-14, 4-17, 4-19
Jet airplane approach and landing 16-17, 16-18, 16-19, 16-20, 16-21, 16-22, 16-23, 16-24
Approach speed 16-22
Glidepath control 16-22
Landing requirements 16-19
Landing speeds 16-20
Approach climb 16-20
Landing climb 16-20
16-20 VREF
VSO 16-20
Stabilized approach 16-21
The flare 16-23
Touchdown and rollout 16-24
Jet engine basics 16-1
Jet engine efficiency 16-4
Jet engine ignition 16-1
Kinetic energy 4-1, 4-7, 4-9, 4-18, 4-19, 16-10, 16-18, 16-19
Landing 9-2
Index-7
Landing gear 2-10, 14-1
Instability 14-1
Landing gear control selected up, single-engine climb 13-31
performance adequate
Checklist 13-32
Climb 13-32
Configuration 13-31
Control 13-31
Landing gear selected up, singe-engine climb performance 13-30
inadequate
Landing gear down 2-5, 13-16, 13-30
Late or rapid round out 9-31
Lazy eight 10-6, 10-7
Level-off and cruise 3-20, 12-8
Level turns 3-11
Establishing a turn 3-15
Medium turns 3-12
Shallow turns 3-12
Steep turns 3-12
Turn radius 3-14
Liftoff 6-4
Rotation 6-5
Light sport airplane (LSA) background 17-1
Loss of control in-flight (LOC-I) 4-1, 4-19, 5-1, 5-2, 5-3, 5-4, 5-5, 5-6, 5-27
Low final approach 9-30
Low speed flight 12-1, 16-6
LSA maintenance 17-4, 17-5
LSA synopsis 17-3
Mach buffet boundaries 16-6
Manuevering by reference to ground objects 7-1
Minimum equipment list and configuration deviation list 16-24, 16-25
Multiengine training considerations 13-35
Night illusions 11-4
Black-hole approach 11-5
Visual autokinesis 11-4
Night vision 11-1
Noise abatement 16-14
Index-8