Index

Airplane Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-3C)

A

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

18-16 16-4 16-4 16-4 5-5 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-19 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 4-18 17-5 5-7 3-21, 5-19, 6-1, 9-1, 18-4 11-5 11-6 8-1 5-8 13-11 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 18-4 11-10 11-13 17-14 5-17 18-4 3-4

• C
• Autoland systems 18-22
• B
• 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
• 18-22
• 9-32
• 3-5, 6-5, 18-18
• 18-2
• 17-12
• 2-21, 13-11, 13-15, 17-4
• 2-22
• 2-21
• 2-21
• 2-21
• 2-22
• 2-21
• 2-22
• 2-21
• 2-22
• 9-33

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 16-11 10-4, 10-5, 10-6 12-16, 13-2, 13-3, 13-10, 13-11, 13-12, 16-20 3-17 3-20 3-19 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 13-8 7-3 17-5 17-5 17-5

• 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, 13-27

• 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
• D
• 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

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
• E
• 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

• 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
• F
• 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

• G
• Gas turbine engine
• Glides
• Gliding turns
• Go-around
• Rejected landings
• Attitude
• Configuration
• Ground effect
• Power
• Ground loop
• Ground operation
• H
• Hand propping
• Hard landing
• High final approach
• High-performance airplane
• High round out
• Human factors
• Diversion of attention
• IMC
• 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 9-11 9-11 9-12 9-11 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 9-30 12-1, 12-17, 12-18 9-10, 9-31 5-2 5-2 5-2 5-3 5-3 5-3 5-3 5-3 5-2 12-12, 12-14, 13-30, 18-9 9-37, 9-38 9-37 9-37 9-37 18-7 5-1, 5-2, 5-3, 5-26, 18-17 3-5, 18-17, 18-18

I

• 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

J

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
• 16-20VREF
• 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
• K
• Kinetic energy 4-1, 4-7, 4-9, 4-18, 4-19, 16-10, 16-18, 16-19
• Landing 9-2
• L

• 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
• M
• 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
• N
• Night illusions 11-4
• Black-hole approach 11-5
• Visual autokinesis 11-4
• Night vision 11-1
• Noise abatement 16-14

• Normal and crosswind takeoff and climb 13-15, 17-4
• Normal approach and landing 9-2, 13-20
• After-landing roll 9-9
• Base leg 9-2
• Final approach 9-3
• Estimating height and movement 9-7
• Use of flaps 9-1
• Round out (flare) 9-8
• Stabilized approach concept 9-4
• Touchdown 9-9
• Wrong surface landing avoidance 9-4
• Normal takeoff 6-3
• Intitial climb 6-5
• Lift-off 6-4
• Takeoff roll 6-3
• Nose baggage compartment 13-9
• O
• Operating the jet engine 16-2
• Operational considerations 15-11
• Operation of systems 17-4, 13-3
• Orientation and navigation 11-9
• Outer wing surfaces 2-6
• Outside of the airplane 2-21, 18-18
• P
• Parking 2-18, 7-23, 11-8, 16-1, 17-4
• Performance and limitations 13-10, 17-4
• Pilot equipment 11-5
• Pilot sensations in jet flying 16-11
• Pitch and power 9-2, 9-3, 9-4, 9-20, 11-10, 12-4, 17-14

Pitch contol 3-2, 3-5, 3-17, 3-23, 3-24, 5-10, 5-21, 10-2, 10-3, 10-4, 13-32, 16-12, 16-24, 18-9, 18-11, 18-18

• Plain (hinge) flap 12-3
• Porpoising 9-34, 9-35, 18-13
• Post-flight 2-23, 17-15
• Securing and servicing 2-23
• Potential energy 4-1, 4-10, 4-18, 4-19, 16-18, 16-19

Power available 4-5, 4-14, 4-15, 4-16, 4-17, 4-18, 4-19, 13-3, 13-19, 13-29, 13-34, 16-20, 18-4

Power control 3-5, 4-6, 12-10, 16-2

• Power-off accuracy approaches 90° Power-off approach
• 180° Power-off approach
• Power required

Preflight Preflight assessment of the aircraft Preparation and preflight Pre-takeoff procedures

• Prior to takeoff
• Propellers Propeller snychronization
• R
• Recovery from overspeed conditions
• Rectangular course

Rejected takeoff Rejected takeoff/engine failure Retractable landing gear Controls and position indicator Emergency gear extension systems Landing gear safety devices Landing gear systems Electrical landing gear retraction system Hydraulic landing gear retraction system Operational procedures

Approach and landing

Preflight

Takeoff and climb Reverse thrust and beta range Risk and resource management Identifying the hazard

Resource management Aeronautical decision-making Flight deck resource management Situational awareness

• Task management
• Risk
• Risk assessment

Role of the FAA Role of the flight instructor 9-24 9-25, 9-26, 9-27 9-25, 9-26 4-5, 4-6, 4-15, 4-16, 4-18, 9-11, 13-3, 16-7, 16-11 17-9 2-1 11-7 2-21, 6-1, 13-12, 13-15 6-1 3-19, 12-5, 12-7, 12-8, 13-3, 13-5, 13-6, 13-7 13-7 5-2 7-5, 7-6, 7-7, 7-9 13-17, 16-15, 16-16 16-14 2-10, 5-17, 5-24, 8-3, 12-1, 12-12, 18-4 12-12 12-14 12-12 12-12 12-12 12-12 12-14 12-16 12-14 12-15 15-8 2-12 2-12 2-13 2-14 2-14 2-13 2-14 2-13 2-13 1-2 1-6

• Role of the pilot examiner 1-6
• Role of FSTDs and airplanes in UPRT 5-7, 5-8
• Rotation and lift-off 16-16
• S
• Safety considerations 1-10, 8-5, 11-10
• Secondary stall 5-16, 5-18, 5-21, 5-25, 5-26
• Setting power 16-2
• Short-field approach and landing 9-20, 9-21, 13-22
• Short-field landing 2-22, 9-24, 12-4, 13-22, 14-8
• Short-field takeoff 6-12, 13-17, 14-4, 17-4
• Short-field takeoff and climb 13-17
• Short-field takeoff and maximum performance climb 6-8
• Initial Climb 6-12
• Lift-off 6-12
• Takeoff roll 6-11

Sideslip 5-22, 5-25, 6-6, 6-7, 6-8, 9-12, 9-13, 9-14, 9-15, 9-16, 9-20, 13-21, 13-22, 13-23, 13-25, 13-27, 13-28, 13-29, 13-32, 14-6

• Single-engine service ceiling 13-11, 13-36
• Slotted flap 12-4
• Slow acceleration of the jet engine 16-3
• Slow final approach 9-31

Slow flight 3-6, 5-1, 5-9, 5-10, 5-11, 5-12, 5-15, 5-27, 13-18, 17-13

• Maneuvering in slow flight 5-11
• Soft-field approach and landing 9-23
• Soft-field landing 14-8
• Soft/rough-field takeoff and climb 6-13
• Initial climb 6-13
• Lift-off 6-13
• Sources of flight training 1-8
• Airman certification standards (ACS) 1-9
• Flight safety practices 1-10
• 1-10
• Collision avoidance 1-10
• Positive transfer of controls 1-10
• Runway incursion avoidance 1-12
• Stall awareness 1-13
• Use of checklists 1-15
• Practical test standards (PTS) 1-9
• Specific excess power (PS) 4-3, 4-8, 4-14, 4-16, 4-17, 4-18

• Speed margins 16-4
• Speed sense 1-1
• Spin awareness 5-22, 5-27, 13-18, 17-4
• Spin procedures 5-23
• Developed phase 5-24
• Entry phase 5-24
• Incipient phase 5-24
• Recovery phase 5-24
• Spiral dive 5-24, 2-26, 5-27
• Spilt flap 12-4, 17-12
• Sport pilot certificate 17-2, 17-3

Stabilized approach 9-2, 9-4, 9-5, 9-6, 9-21, 9-22, 9-30, 11-10, 12-4, 13-20, 13-22, 15-13, 16-4, 16-18, 16-21, 16-22

• Stall characteristics 5-15, 5-18, 5-19, 13-14, 13-19, 16-8
• Stall recognition 5-12, 5-13, 5-22
• Angle of attack indicators 5-13
• Feel 5-13
• Hearing 5-13
• Kinethesia 5-13
• Vision 5-13
• Stalls 5-12
• Accelerated approach to stall 13-20
• Engine inoperative loss of directional contol demonstration 13-16
• Full stall 5-12, 13-20

Impending stall 5-12, 5-13, 5-15, 5-16, 5-17, 5-20, 5-21, 13-18, 13-26, 16-8

• Power-off stalls 5-17
• Power-on stalls (takeoff and departure) 5-18
• Spin awareness 5-22
• Stall training 1-7, 5-9, 5-16, 5-20, 13-18
• Standard traffic patterns 8-1, 8-2, 8-5
• Base leg 8-3, 8-4
• Crosswind leg 8-4
• Departure leg 8-4
• Downwind leg 8-3, 8-4, 8-5
• Entry leg 8-3
• Starting, taxiing, and runup 11-8
• Steep spiral 4-17, 10-3, 10-4

Steep turns 3-12, 3-14, 3-16, 5-6, 5-19, 10-1, 10-2, 10-3, 11-7, 17-4, 17-13, 18-17

Straight-and-level flight 3-1, 3-3, 3-6, 3-7, 3-8, 3-16, 3-19, 3-20, 3-25, 7-2, 7-13, 7-16, 10-4, 10-5, 11-7, 13-19, 18-18, 18-20, 18-21

• Level flight 3-8
• Straight flight 3-6
• S-turns across a road 7-8, 7-9, 7-10
• System malfunctions 9-29, 18-10, 18-13
• Electical system 18-13, 18-14
• Pitot-static system 18-14
• T

Takeoff and climb 5-18, 6-1, 6-2, 6-6, 6-11, 6-13, 11-8, 12-4, 12-16, 13-10, 13-12, 13-15, 13-17, 13-33, 15-2, 16-12, 16-14, 16-16, 16-17, 17-4, 17-12, Takeoff and departure 6-1, 13-9, 15-12, , 16-14

Takeoff checks 2-22

Takeoff roll 2-22, 6-1, 6-3, 6-5, 6-6, 6-7, 6-10, 6-11, 6-13, 6-14, 12-6, 13-14, 13-15, 13-30, 14-3, 14-4, 16-2, 16-12, 16-14, 16-16

Ground roll 2-20, 3-1, 6-1, 6-3, 6-11, 6-14, 9-10, 13-15, 13-35, 14-4, 4-7, 18-5

Takeoffs 5-9, 5-15, 6-1, 6-5, 6-6, 6-8, 6-10, 6-12, 6-13, 8-1, 9-15, 9-18, 11-1, 11-6, 11-7, 11-8, 12-4, 12-9, 13-15, 13-17, 14-1, 14-3, 14-4, 14-8, 15-12, 15-13, 16-14, 16-15, 16-20, Taxi and Taxiing 1-13, 2-14, 2-15, 2-18, 2-19, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 6-1, 6-6, 6-10, 9-9, 9-36, 11-5 , 11-8, 13-14, 13-15, 13-21, 13-36, 14-1, 14-2, 14-3, 14-4, 14-8, 15-9, 16-1, 16-12, 16-24, 17-12

• Terrain selection 18-1, 18-4
• Terrain types 18-5
• Confined areas 18-5
• Trees (forest) 18-5, 18-6
• Water (ditching) and snow 18-6
• Thrust reversers 16-10, 16-11, 16-19, 16-24
• Thrust to thrust lever relationship 16-2

Timing 1-1, 7-1, 7-7, 7-10, 7-18, 9-15, 9-32, 14-6, 16-16, 18-4

Tires 2-10, 2-11, 2-22, 2-23, 9-18, 9-23, 9-33, 9-35, 9-37, 14-4, 16-15, 16-16, 16-24, 17-12, Total mechanical energy 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 4-16, 4-18, 4-19

Touchdown 9-9, 9-17, 9-33, 9-37, 9-38, 14-4, 16-24

Crosswinds 9-15, 9-16, 9-17, 9-18, 9-19, 9-20, 9-33, 13-22, 14-2, 14-4, 14-6, 17-6, 18-7

• Three-point landing 14-4, 14-5, 14-6
• Wheel landing 14-4, 14-5, 14-6
• Touchdown in a drift or crab 9-35
• Tracking over and parallel to a straight line 7-5
• Training considerations 13-35, 15-13, 15-15
• Flight training 13-35, 13-36, 15-14, 15-15

• V
• Ground training 15-14
• Training for night flight 11-7

Transition training 12-17, 12-18, 14-15, 15-13, 17-4, 17-7, 17-13, 17-15

• Transition training considerations 17-4
• Flight instructors 17-4
• Flight school 17-4
• Trim control 3-5, 3-10, 17-12
• Turbine inlet temperature (TIT) 12-10, 12-11
• Turbocharging 12-9, 12-10, 12-11
• Ground boosting versus altitude turbocharging 12-10
• Heat management 12-10, 12-11
• Operating characteristics 12-10
• Turbocharger failure 12-11
• Low manifold pressure 12-11
• Over-boost condition 12-11
• Turboprop airplane electrical systems 15-10, 15-11
• Turboprop engines 1-23, 13-9, 15-2
• Truboprop engine types 15-2
• Fixed shaft 15-2, 15-3, 15-4, 15-5, 15-9, 15-11

Split shaft/free turbine engine 15-5, 15-6, 15-7, 15-9, 15-11, 15-13, Turbulent air approach and landing 9-20

• U
• Unusual attitude versus upsets 5-1
• Upset prevention and recovery 5-1, 5-5, 5-27
• Upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT) 5-4, 5-27
• Use of power 9-31, 10-3
• V1 16-12, 16-14, 16-15, 16-16
• Maximum V1 16-15
• Minimum V1 16-15
• Reduced V1 16-15, 16-16
• Variation of thrust with rpm 16-3

Visibility 2-4, 3-17, 7-1, 8-4, 8-5, 8-6, 9-2, 11-3, 11-4, 11-6, 11-9, 11-14, 13-16, 13-20, 14-3, 14-8, 16-24, 17-12, 18-7, 18-22

• Visual inspection of the aircraft 2-2
• Visual preflight assessment 2-1, 2-4
• V-speeds 13-1, 13-2, 16-12
• VLOF 13-10, 13-15, 16-12, 16-16

VX

VMC 13-2, 13-15, 13-17, 13-18, 13-20, 13-23, 13-24, 13-25, 13-26, 13-27, 13-28, 13-29, 13-31, 13-35, 13-37, 16-12

• VR 2-22, 13-1, 13-10, 13-14, 13-15, 16-12, 16-14, 16-16
• VREF 13-1, 16-20, 16-22

VSSE 13-1, 13-18, 13-25, 13-26, 13-35, 15-36, 3-17, 4-17, 6-10, 6-11, 6-12, 6-13, 13-1, 13-17, 13-19, 13-22, VXSE 13-1, 13-17, VY 3-17, 4-8, 4-17, 5-26, 6-4, 6-5, 6-6, 6-10, 6-11, 6-12, 6-13, 13-1, 13-15, 13-16, 13-17, 13-19, 13-22, 13-31, VYSE 13-1, 13-12, 13-16, 13-18, 13-20, 13-26, 13-27, 13-29, 13-30, 13-31, 13, 32, 13-34, 13-35, 13-37

• W
• Weather considerations 17-4, 17-7

Weathervaning 2-19, 2-20, 6-8, 9-18, 9-36, 14-1, 14-2, 14-3, 14-7, 14-8, Weight and balance 2-4, 5-23, 5-26, 13-11, 13-12, 13-13, 17-9

• Basic empty weight 13-12, 13-13, 13-14
• Empty weight 13-12, 13-13, Maximum landing weight 13-14
• Ramp weight 13-14
• Standard empty weight 13-12, 13-13, Zero fuel weight 13-13
• Weight and balance requirement related to spins 5-26
• Wheelbarrowing 6-12, 9-20, 9-35, 9-37, 13-17
• Wing rising after touchdown 9-37
• Y
• Yaw damper 13-8, 13-16
• Yaw string 13-27, 13-29