P

parachute dropping, 65, 106 passenger briefing card, 112 performance, 27, 40, 51, 67, 85, 91, 106, 107, 113, 114, 115, 117, 183 personal flying logbooks, 109 Personnel Department, 5, 135 Pipeline Flying, 61 piston, 126, 127, 128, 129 pitch, 12, 13, 107 plane of rotation, 12 Planning Permission, 92 Pleasure Flying, 22, 50, 57, 110, 183 points, 131 Police Operations, 61 positioning, 51, 53, 75 precession, 13 precipitation, 130 propeller, 130 Public Transport, 21, 183
R

radar, 98 RAF, 61 railway lines, 93 Recirculation, 17 refuellers, 97 refuelling, 27, 54, 98 relative airflow, 12, 15 remote areas, 103 rescue helicopter, 101
Restricted (or Regulated) Takeoff Weight, 105 retreating blade, 12, 13
right-of-way, 92
rotor disc, 12, 13, 17, 56, 76, 110, 111
Rotor Profile Drag, 12
Rotor Systems, 15
RTOW, 105
rundown period, 128
S

Safety Area, 55 safety equipment, 52, 111 SAR, 101, 104 SARBE, 101 Schermuly flares, 76 sea evaluation, 99 seat belts, 53, 55, 83, 100, 110, 111 sectors, 21 simulator, 138 Skin contamination, 41, 98 slush, 80, 107 speed of sound, 13 spray booms, 39 Spray Drift, 41 spreader bars, 26 Squirrel, 27 static discharge probe, 23 Static Electricity, 22 static lines, 65 static rollover angle, 16 swells, 99 swimming pools, 43
T

tail rotor, 14 Tail Rotor Drift, 14 Tail Rotor Failure, 123 tail rotors, 56, 111 Takeoff Decision Point, 116 tangential velocity, 15 TAS, 66 Taxiways, 56 Tech Log, 105, 106 teetering head, 12 thrust, 11, 14, 16, 17 thunderstorms, 22 top dressing, 43 Top Dressing, 38 torque, 14, 126 torquemeter, 127 Total Rotor Thrust, 11 trailing edge, 13 Training Captain, 2 Translation, 15 Transverse Flow, 13 TRE, 65 turbine, 126, 127, 128 turbulence, 46, 70, 110
U
undercarriage, 16
V
venturi, 130 venturi effect, 69 vertical reference, 32 VFR, 75, 91 vibrations, 16 visibility, 46, 60, 61, 76, 91 visual reference, 80 VMC, 91 VNE, 13 vortex ring, 18
W
WAT limits, 117 water check, 97 water detectors, 97 whiteout, 80 Winter Operations, 77

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Operational Flying

A book that has very little to do with flying, but everything to do with being a pilot—and the training you need after you get your licence, but don’t always get, covering the practical and admin sides of working with aeroplanes and helicopters. If you’re a corporate pilot, with no Public Transport experience to fall back on, but faced with operating an aircraft without any help, this should be the manual you don't have the incentive to write for yourself, and it will be especially useful to Operations Staff, who often have to put themselves in a pilot’s shoes, such as when inspecting Pleasure Flying sites.