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• Risk Management Handbookp. 3-1
  Chapter 3: Identifying Hazards & Associated Risks › Why Hazards Result in Aviation Accidents

  states: 14616 The loss of partial engine 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 ... 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 Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. G-9
  Glossary › Chart Supplement U.S. (formerly Airport/Facility

  than the aileron moving down. The up aileron produces extra parasite drag to compensate for the additional induced drag caused by the down aileron. This balancing of the drag forces helps minimize adverse yaw. Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS ... system. An oxygen system that delivers oxygen mixed or diluted with air in order to maintain a constant oxygen partial pressure as the altitude changes. Direct indication. The true and instantaneous reflection of aircraft pitch-and-bank attitude…

• Airplane Flying Handbookp. 9-4
  Chapter 9: Approaches and Landings › Final Approach › Wrong Surface Landing Avoidance

  performing approaches with partial power; if the approach is too high, the pilot can lower the nose and reduce the power to maintain the correct airspeed. When the approach is too low, the pilot can add power and raise ... descent and airspeed are maintained by integrating pitch and power changes, an untrained or inexperienced pilot may try to reach a landing spot by applying back-elevator pressure without adding power. However, attempting to stretch the final approach by raising…

• Airplane Flying Handbookp. 5-2
  Chapter 5: Maintaining Aircraft Control: Upset Prevention and Recovery Training › Upset Prevention and Recovery › Mechanical Factors

  anomaly. Disengaging the autopilot and the autothrottles allows the pilot to directly control the airplane and possibly eliminate the cause of the problem. For these reasons the pilot should maintain proficiency to manually fly the airplane in all flight conditions ... upset and subsequent LOC-I may depend on the pilot’s proficiency in the use of secondary instrumentation and partial panel operations…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 7-36
  Chapter 7: Aircraft Systems › Pressurized Aircraft

  useful consciousness because oxygen in the lungs is exhaled rapidly, reducing pressure on the body. This decreases the partial pressure of oxygen in the blood and reduces the pilot’s effective performance time by one-third to one-fourth ... solution, and forms bubbles inside the person that can have adverse effects on some body tissues. Decompression caused by structural damage to the aircraft presents another type of danger to pilots, crew, and passengers––being tossed or blown…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 17-3
  Chapter 17: Aeromedical Factors › Health and Physiological Factors Affecting Pilot Performance › Hypoxic Hypoxia

  oxygen, or the inability of the body tissues to use oxygen. The forms of hypoxia are based on their causes: • Hypoxic hypoxia • Hypemic hypoxia • Stagnant hypoxia • Histotoxic hypoxia Hypoxic Hypoxia Hypoxic hypoxia is a result of insufficient oxygen available ... airway and drowning are obvious examples of how the lungs can be deprived of oxygen, but the reduction in partial pressure of oxygen at high altitude is an appropriate example for pilots. Although the percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere…