FH.V.A.R3
Risk managementEnvironment (e.g., weather, icing, airports/heliports/helipads/landing areas, airspace, terrain, obstacles).
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- Chapter 4: Helicopter Components, Sections, and Systems › Anti-Icing Systems › Deicing
Airframe Anti-Ice Airframe and rotor anti-icing may be found on some larger helicopters, but it is not common due to the complexity, expense, and weight of such systems. The leading edges of rotors may be heated with bleed ... electrical elements to prevent ice formation. Balance and control problems might arise if ice is allowed to form unevenly on the blades. Research is being done on lightweight ice-phobic (anti-icing) materials or coatings. These materials placed in strategic…
- Chapter 13: Effective Aeronautical Decision-Making › Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) Awareness
sectional charts or other topographic references to ensure the helicopter will safely clear terrain and obstructions all along the route. • When planning a nighttime VFR flight, follow IFR practices, such as climbing on a known safe course until well above ... surrounding terrain. Choose a cruising altitude that provides terrain separation similar to IFR flights (2,000 feet above ground level in mountainous areas and 1,000 feet above the ground in other areas). Using this technique, known obstacles, such…
- Glossary › Chart Supplement U.S. (formerly Airport/Facility
aircraft, an ATC clearance is required to operate in the area, and aircraft so cleared receive separation services within the airspace. Class C airspace. Airspace from the surface to 4,000 feet above the airport elevation (charted in MSL) surrounding ... those airports having an operational control tower, serviced by radar approach control, and having a certain number of IFR operations or passenger numbers. Although the configuration of each Class C airspace area is individually tailored, the airspace usually consists…
- Chapter 15: Airspace › Air Traffic Control and the National Airspace System › Coordinating the Use of Airspace
Coordinating the Use of Airspace ATC is responsible for ensuring that the necessary coordination has been accomplished before allowing an aircraft under their control to enter another controller’s area of jurisdiction. Before issuing control instructions directly or relaying through ... another source to an aircraft that is within another controller’s area of jurisdiction that will change that aircraft’s heading, route, speed, or altitude, ATC ensures that coordination has been accomplished with each of the controllers listed below whose…
- Chapter 15: Airspace › Air Traffic Control and the National Airspace System › Operating Rules and Pilot/Equipment Requirements
Unless otherwise authorized or required by ATC, no person may operate an aircraft to, from, through, or on an airport having an operational control tower unless two-way radio communications are maintained between that aircraft and the control tower. Communications ... must be established within four nautical miles from the airport, up to and including 2,500 feet AGL. However, if the aircraft radio fails in flight, the PIC may operate that aircraft and land if weather conditions…
- 14 CFR § 61.94 Student pilot seeking a sport pilot certificate or a recreational pilot certificate: Operations at airports within, and in airspace located within, Class B, C, and D airspace, or at ai
Student pilot seeking a sport pilot certificate or a recreational pilot certificate: Operations at airports within, and in airspace located within, Class B, C, and D airspace, or at airports with an operational control tower in other airspace ... certificate or a recreational pilot certificate who wants to obtain privileges to operate in Class B, C, and D airspace, at an airport located in Class B, C, or D airspace, and to, from, through, or at an airport having…