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  • Chapter 3: Identifying Hazards & Associated Risks › Why Hazards Result in Aviation Accidents

    power for undetermined reasons, and the pilot’s loss of control after performing an evasive maneuver to avoid trees during a forced landing at night. Factors related to the accident were a rough running engine and the pilots inability ... involving a transport category turbojet taken to its maximum operating altitude resulted in both engines flaming out after an aerodynamic stall. The flight ended in a crash and two fatalities. The NTSB probable cause(s) follows: 14619 The National Transportation…

  • Glossary › Pilot’s Operating Handbook/Airplane Flight Manual

    path of the airplane determines the direction of the relative wind. Remote communications outlet (RCO). An unmanned communications facility that is remotely controlled by air traffic personnel. Required navigation performance (RNP). A specified level of accuracy defined by a lateral ... Rigging. The final adjustment and alignment of an aircraft and its flight control system that provides the proper aerodynamic characteristics. Rigidity. The characteristic of a gyroscope that prevents its axis of rotation tilting as the Earth rotates. Rigidity in space…

  • Chapter 5: Aerodynamics of Flight

    fundamental to understanding many aspects of airplane performance, stability, and control. The AOA is defined as the acute angle between the chord line of the airfoil and the direction of the relative wind. Discussions of the preceding concepts are frequently ... aeronautical texts/handbooks/manuals. The reason is not that they are inconsequential, but because the main ideas with respect to the aerodynamic forces acting upon an aircraft in flight can be presented in their most essential elements without being involved…

  • Glossary

    object, and with the motion of air on other gases. Aerodynamics deals with the production of lift by the aircraft, the relative wind, and the atmosphere. Aeronautical chart. A map used in air navigation containing all or part ... flight. Aircraft altitude. The actual height above sea level at which the aircraft is flying. Aircraft approach category. A performance grouping of aircraft based on a speed of 1.3 times the stall speed in the landing configuration at maximum gross…

  • Chapter 5: Aerodynamics of Flight › Load Factors › Load Factors and Flight Maneuvers

    Spins Load Factors and Flight Maneuvers Critical load factors apply to all…

  • 14 CFR Part 141, Appendix E to Part 141—Airline Transport Pilot Certification Course

    Aircraft loading; weight and balance; use of charts, graphs, tables, formulas, and computations; and the effects on aircraft performance; (10) Aerodynamics relating to an aircraft's flight characteristics and performance in normal and abnormal flight regimes; (11) Human factors…