Index

• A
• Aids for marine navigation 1-2
• Altimeter setting 6-7
• Amphibians 2-1, 6-2
• Anchoring 6-9
• Autorotation 9-2, 9-6, 9-8
• Auxiliary fin 2-4, 5-2
• B
• Beaching 6-8, 6-10
• Bilge pump 4-2
• Bilge pump openings 2-2, 4-2
• Bulkheads, float 2-2
• Buoyancy 2-2, 4-3
• Buoys 1-2, 1-3, 1-4
• C

Center of buoyancy 4-4, 4-6, Center of gravity 4-1, 5-1, 5-2, 5-3, 7-7

• Centrifugal force (in turns) 4-6, 4-7, 4-14
• Certificate, limitations 1-1
• Chine 2-2
• Clamp-on ski 7-1
• Coast Guard rules 1-2
• Combination ski 7-1, 7-2
• Confined area operations 4-16, 6-7
• Corrosion 4-1, 4-3
• Crosswind 4-12, 4-13, 6-3, 7-5
• Current 3-2, 4-8, 4-9, 6-5
• D
• Daybeacons and daymarks 1-2, 1-3, 1-4
• Deck 2-2
• Density altitude 4-11, 4-12, 5-1, 6-8, 9-5
• Displacement 2-2, 4-3
• Displacement position 4-3
• Displacement of float 2-2
• position or attitude 4-3, 4-10
• taxi 4-3
• Docking 6-8, 6-10
• Downwind takeoff 4-14
• E
• Escaping a submerged seaplane 8-8
• F
• Fetch 3-2, 8-1
• Float construction 2-2, 2-3, 9-1
• Float, weight-bearing capability 2-2, 9-1
• Floatplane defined 2-1
• Flying boat definition 2-1
• handling 4-9, 5-3
• G
• Glaciers 7-6
• Glassy water 3-3, 4-15, 6-5, 9-4
• Go-around 6-2, 6-8
• H
• Hovering 9-3, 9-7
• Hull 2-1, 5-3
• Hump (water drag) 4-9, 4-10, 4-11
• Hydrodynamic lift 2-2, 4-4, 4-10
• I
• Ice (in floats) 4-3
• Ice types 7-2
• Idling 4-3, 4-8
• Inland waters 1-2
• International waters 1-2

• K
• Keel 2-2
• L
• Landings confined area 6-7
• crosswind 6-3
• downwind 6-5, 8-4
• emergency 6-8, 7-8
• frozen lakes and rivers 7-6
• glaciers 7-6
• glassy water 6-5
• helicopter 9-4, 9-8
• night landing 6-8, 7-8, 8-5, 8-6
• normal 6-3
• open sea 8-1
• rough water 6-7, 8-1, 9-5
• skiplane 7-6, 7-7
• tundra 7-6
• Launching 4-3
• Lighting conditions 7-6
• Limitations of sea rating 1-1
• M
• Marine aids for navigation 1-2
• Mooring 6-8, 6-9, 9-6
• N
• Night operations 6-8, 8-5, 8-6
• Noise 3-4, 4-12, 6-2
• Normal takeoff 4-12
• O
• On the step 4-4, 6-2
• P
• Parking 7-7
• Passenger briefing 4-3
• Penetration ski 7-2
• Plain ski 7-1
• Planing position 4-4
• Plow turn 4-6, 4-7
• Plowing position 4-4
• Pop-out floats 9-1
• Porpoising 4-9, 5-3
• Preflight inspection seaplane 4-1
• skiplane 7-3
• float equipped helicopter 9-3
• ski equipped helicopter 9-7
• Privileges and Limitations 1-1
• R
• Ramping 6-8, 6-10
• Regulations 1-1
• Retractable ski 7-1
• Right-of-way rules 1-2
• Roll-on ski 7-1
• Rough water 4-16, 6-7, 8-1, 9-5
• Rules of the Sea 1-2
• Runup 4-12
• Runup (skiplane) 7-4
• S
• Sailing 4-8, 4-9
• Seaplane defined 2-1
• Seaplane landing areas beacons 1-2
• chart symbols 1-2
• reconnaissance 6-1
• restrictions 3-4
• unplanned 5-2
• Sister keelsons 2-2
• Skeg 2-2, 2-4
• Ski types 7-1
• Skids-on-floats 9-1, 9-6
• Skipping 4-10
• Snow types 7-2
• Sponson 2-1
• Spray damage 4-1
• Spray rail 2-2, 4-2
• Starting seaplane 4-3
• skiplane 7-4
• helicopter 9-3, 9-7
• Step 2-3, 4-4
• Step position 4-4
• Step taxi 4-5, 6-3
• Step turns 4-7
• Survival equipment 7-3, 7-4, 7-8
• Swell 3-2, 4-9, 6-2, 6-7, 8-1, 8-2, 8-3, 8-4, 8-5

• T
• Takeoffs normal 4-12
• crosswind 4-12
• downwind 4-14
• helicopter 9-4, 9-7
• glassy water 4-15
• rough water 4-16, 8-1
• confined area 4-16
• skiplane 7-5
• Taxiing seaplane 4-3
• skiplane 7-5
• float equipped helicopter 9-3
• ski equipped helicopter 9-7
• Tides 3-3
• Tip floats 2-1
• Transom 4-2
• Turns 4-5, 4-6, 4-7
• Types of ice 7-2
• Types of snow 7-2
• W
• Warmup (skiplane) 7-4
• Water current 3-2, 4-8, 4-9, 6-5

Water rudders 2-4, 4-2, 4-5, 4-12, 4-14, Water, characteristics 3-1, 8-1

• Watertight compartments 2-3, 4-2
• Waves 3-1, 6-3, Weathervaning 3-4, 4-5, 4-6, 4-13, 6-3
• Weight and balance 4-1, 5-1
• Wheel replacement ski 7-1
• Wing floats 2-1
• Y
• Yaw instability 2-4, 4-6, 5-2, 9-2