Commercial Pilot for Powered-Lift Category › V. Takeoffs, Landings, and Go-Arounds › Task A. Normal Takeoff and Climb from a Hover

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Factors affecting the profile of the height/velocity (H/V) diagram.

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Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge p. 17-9
Chapter 17: Aeromedical Factors › Health and Physiological Factors Affecting Pilot Performance › Diving or Rolling Beyond the Vertical Plane
Diving or Rolling Beyond the Vertical Plane This maneuver may produce extreme…
Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge p. 17-9
Chapter 17: Aeromedical Factors › Health and Physiological Factors Affecting Pilot Performance › Climbing While Turning
1. They teach pilots to understand the susceptibility of the human system…
Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge p. 17-10
Chapter 17: Aeromedical Factors › Health and Physiological Factors Affecting Pilot Performance › Water Refraction
pilot flying a lower approach. Atmospheric haze can create an illusion of being at a greater distance and height from the runway. As a result, the pilot has a tendency to be low on the approach. Conversely, extremely clear ... overshoot or go around. The diffusion of light due to water particles on the windshield can adversely affect depth perception. The lights and terrain features normally used to gauge height during landing become less effective for the pilot. Flying into…
Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge p. 17-8
Chapter 17: Aeromedical Factors › Health and Physiological Factors Affecting Pilot Performance › Visual Illusions
pilots rely on their eyes for correct information. Two illusions that lead to spatial disorientation, false horizon and autokinesis, affect the visual system only. False Horizon A sloping cloud formation, an obscured horizon, an aurora borealis, a dark scene spread…
Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge p. 17-7
Chapter 17: Aeromedical Factors › Health and Physiological Factors Affecting Pilot Performance › Vestibular Illusions
Take care when retrieving charts and other objects in the flight deck…
Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge p. 11-8
Chapter 11: Aircraft Performance › Performance › Climb Performance Factors
Climb Performance Factors Since weight, altitude and configuration changes affect excess thrust and power, they also affect climb performance. Climb performance is directly dependent upon the ability to produce either excess thrust or excess power. Earlier in the book ... Aircraft designers go to great lengths to minimize the weight, since it has such a marked effect on the factors pertaining to performance. A change in an aircraft’s weight produces a twofold effect on climb performance. First, a change…