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• Helicopter Flying Handbookp. 11-26
  Chapter 11: Helicopter Emergencies and Hazards › Emergency Equipment and Survival Gear

  Figure 11-12. Emergency equipment and survival gear. When faced with deteriorating weather, planning and prevention, not recovery, are the best strategies to eliminate UIMC-related accidents and fatalities. Emergency Equipment and Survival Gear Both Canada and Alaska require pilots ... carry survival gear. Always carry survival gear when flying over rugged and desolate terrain. The items suggested in Figure 11-12 are both weather and terrain dependent. The pilot also needs to consider how much storage space the helicopter…

• Helicopter Flying Handbookp. 8-2
  Chapter 8: Ground Procedures and Flight Preparations › Preflight › Minimum Equipment Lists (MELs) and Operations with Inoperative Equipment

  Minimum Equipment Lists (MELs) and Operations with Inoperative Equipment Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) requires that all aircraft instruments and installed equipment be operative prior to each departure. However, when the Federal Aviation Administration ... adopted the minimum equipment list (MEL) concept for 14 CFR part 91 operations, flights were allowed with inoperative items, as long as the inoperative items were determined to be nonessential for safe flight. At the same time, it allowed part…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 9-9
  Chapter 9: Flight Manuals and Other Documents › Minimum Equipment Lists (MEL) and Operations With Inoperative Equipment

  operation. POHs and owner/information manuals contain a section devoted to a systematic method of performing a preflight inspection. Minimum Equipment Lists (MEL) and Operations With Inoperative Equipment Under 14 CFR, all aircraft instruments and installed equipment are required ... operative prior to each departure. When the FAA adopted the minimum equipment list (MEL) concept for 14 CFR part 91 operations, it allowed aircraft to be operated with inoperative equipment determined to be nonessential for safe flight. At the same…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 3-6
  Chapter 3: Aircraft Construction › Alternate Types of Wings › Landing Gear

  helps maintain the stabilator in the desired position. Figure 3-10. Empennage components. Figure 3-11. Stabilator components. Landing Gear The landing gear is the principal support of the airplane when parked, taxiing, taking off, or landing. The most common ... type of landing gear consists of wheels, but airplanes can also be equipped with floats for water operations or skis for landing on snow. [Figure 3-12] Wheeled landing gear consists of three wheels—two main wheels and a third…

• Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook - Airframep. 13-23
  Chapter 13: Aircraft Landing Gear Systems › Landing Gear Safety Devices › Landing Gear Position Indicators

  There is usually an amber in transit light to indicate a gear that is in transition. Landing gear position indicators are located on the instrument panel adjacent to the gear selector handle. They are used to inform the pilot ... gear position status. There are many arrangements for gear indication. Usually, there is a dedicated light for each gear. The most common display for the landing gear being down and locked is an illuminated green light. Three green lights means…

• Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook - Generalp. 24
  Chapter 3: Mathematics in Aviation Maintenance › Ratio

  glide ratio of 10,560:1,000 which can be reduced to 10.56: 1 (or 10.56 to 1). Gear ratio is the number of teeth each gear represents when two gears are used in an aircraft component. In Figure ... pinion gear has 8 teeth and a spur gear has 28 teeth. The gear ratio is 8:28. Using 7 as the LCD, 8:28 becomes 2:7. Speed ratio is when two gears are used in an aircraft component…